Channel 4 Remit

1) One similarity between Channel 4 and an independent film production company is that they demonstrate innovation, and they experiment with different narratives. Also both companies appeal to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society by showing media which a lot of people would like to watch.

2) One Channel 4 gained the ability to sell their own advertising space I think they started to change the programmes on the channel and started to become very different. More acquisitioned programmes have been introduced, such as Friends and ER.

3) Channel 4 lead to innovations because they started showing documentaries, now all the British Terrestrial TV Channels have some form of a documentary showed. Also they showed programmes with scenes of homosexuality which was very controversial, this lead to other channels showing programmes of similar material.

4) Channel 4 has strayed from the remit by not including programmes of an educational nature or value. Although they show documentaries they do not have any educational values due to the nature of the programmes, such as "The World's Biggest Penis."

5) I think Channel 4's factual programmes do not have the same educational value as the educational programmes from 25 years ago. 25 years ago programmes were shown which had some form of educational value but these days there is hardly any shows with any educational value.

6) I think Channel 4 does still keep to some aspects of the remit. They have some programmes which show innovation, creativity and experiment. Programmes that show this are "Scrapheap Challenge, Wife Swap and Friends."

7) Channel 4's ownership of Film 4 Productions is an example of vertical integration. This is because Channel 4 does not produce any of it's own shows, they either pay for a company to produce the shows (commission) or pay a company for the rights to broadcast the programme (acquisition).