Channel 4

Hard-up Channel 4 axes digital radio plans

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Broadcaster to cut 150 jobs as part of an attempt to save £100m over the next two years

Channel 4 Abandons Digital Radio Plans To Help Save £100 Million

paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

Channel 4 has abandoned all plans to launch a series of DAB radio stations next year because of the economic downturn, report FT.com and MediaGuardian . The broadcaster has pulled out of the 4 Digital Group consortium, of which it was the main shareholder with 50 percent, and says in a release (not online) that it will save £10 million in 2009 by axing the project and making its 15 staff redundant....

• Channel 4 drops plans to launch three commercial radio stations - The Stage

Channel 4 abandons digital radio ambitions

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Channel 4 has abandoned its plans to launch three digital radio stations, saying that it can no longer afford the £10 million cost of launching the service as advertising revenues collapse in reaction to the credit crunch.

Channel 4 - Channel 4 Exits Dab Consortium

Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | yesterday

Channel 4 has abandoned plans to launch a series of digital radio stations, blaming a lack of potential advertising revenue.The broadcaster said it was pulling out of ...

• NEWS: BBC responds to Channel 4 dropping DAB plans - Pocket-lint

Channel 4 axes radio projects

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Channel 4 has abandoned its entire radio project, as it seeks to make £100m in savings. By John Plunkett

Channel 4 abandons digital radio

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Channel 4 pulls the plug on three proposed digital radio stations owing to a slump in advertising revenues.

Channel 4 abandons digital radio on cost grounds

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Channel 4 this morning abandoned its plans to launch three digital radio stations, saying it can no longer afford the £10 million cost of launching the service as advertising revenues collapse in reaction to the credit crunch.

• Channel 4 drops plans to launch three commercial radio stations - The Stage
• Channel 4 abandons radio launch - ireland.com

Channel 4 cancels digital radio plans

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

Channel 4 is abandoning its entry into the commercial radio market and has cancelled plans to launch a platform capable of carrying 10 new digital stations.

Monkey Tennis: Bobski The Builder, Channel 4

TV Scoop (Free subscription) | yesterday

We've not had a Monkey Tennis for a while - the category that is dedicated to Alan Partridge's outburst when desperately trying to come up with TV titles to a BBC executive - and I think that's because, recently, TV people seem to have calmed down a little bit. Until now. Bobski The Builder? WTF?! I sat there and chuckled when I saw this title, and then scratched my head trying to figure out what...

Channel 4 pulls out of digital radio

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

Channel 4 is abandoning its entry into the commercial radio market and will hand back its licence granted last year to launch a platform capable of carrying ten new digital stations.

NEWS: Channel 4 dropping DAB radio plans

Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | yesterday

Another blow to the digital platform Channel 4 is dumping its plans for DAB radio stations to be launched and withdrawing from the 4 Digital Group off-shoot. ... Read Channel 4 dropping DAB radio plans on Pocket-lint now

Television critic's choice - Cutting Edge: Ninety Naps a Day (Channel 4)

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

By Patricia Wynn Davies

Last night's television: Cutting Edge: Ninety Naps a Day, Channel 4 Timeshift: Between the Lines, BBC4

The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday

Ninety Naps a Day (as far as I could make out the number was arbitrary, chosen for its alliteration) trod a fine line between the tragic and the hilarious, neatly encapsulated in a scene where Christine, the wife of a narcoleptic, talked of the appalling loneliness of 38 years of marriage. In the foreground, Kenny snored quietly: "He may as well not be here half the time". Kenny started up: "What...

Set The Video: Dawn Porter: Geisha Girl, Channel 4, Tuesday, 14 October, 10pm

TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

Dawn Porter gets so close to her subjects that sometimes, it's easy to think that a little part of her is lost forever to them. Be it...

Set The Video: Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, Channel 4, Monday, 13 October, 9pm

TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008

For those who aren't aware, Tom Hurndall was a British photography student and a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and an activist against the Israeli...