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Channel 4 – the right-on, publicly-owned, Jon Snow-fronted broadcaster, improbably created by the first Thatcher government – seems to be in play. Last week, a civil servant was seen bearing documents referring to options for change.
If the renewal of the BBC Charter is an open – and fiercely contested – process, the prospect of privatisation for Channel 4 has been kept well under wraps, with ministers trotting out those familiar phrases – such as “no change is presently planned” – that so often prove a foretaste of precisely the opposite.
