What factors led to the provision of Britain's fourth television channel? How did Channel Four change public service broadcasting?

Many factors led to the introduction of Channel Four in Britain in1982. There was a common concurrence that there was not a channel that was representative of the minority groups of Great Britain and that after the BBC was given a second channel, it seemed inevitable that another channel would follow suit. I will be discussing these issues that led to the final decisions of the new channel that is now Channel Four including the …

…programmes that channels all over the world have in common; namely quizzes, soap operas, and current affairs. Bibliography BBC (1995) Auntie: the Inside Story of the BBC Channel Four (15th March 2002) Welcome to Channel 4 http://www.htw.ndirect.co.uk/ch4.html Crisell. A (1997) An Introductory History of British Broadcasting Freedman, D (14th March 2002) Media, Culture & Society http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab015916.html