Articles about Channel 4

New technology sweeps ITV, with ENG, computer editing and ½-inch tape at the fore

A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022

Inside the 20-year battle for a fourth channel

There’s always something new and different on Channel 4

A trade advertisement from ITV

The country’s newest, and most innovative, news programme

Channel 4’s first two years have seen an explosion in British filmmaking

Even harder than it looks: the technological challenge of Channel 4’s Treasure Hunt

The Channel 4 main transmitter network is complete, but there’s more to do

Channel 4 have designed and built a computer to ensure split-second timing

A trip to the ITN archives – deep under Goodge Street in London

Welcome to the future and your new ONdigital digibox

A new programme and a new role for ITN as breakfast television launches on Channel 4

The first brand new national TV channel in almost 20 years has arrived

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it

What does Channel 4 hold for the viewer when it launches in 2 years?

A gallery of photos from the construction of the Beacon Hill Channel 4 extension in the early 1980s

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1983 to find out what was on the telly…

A look at what was on in the East of England on Monday 5 September 1988

A look at what was on Granada and Channel 4 on Thursday 25 July 1985

A look at what was on TVS in the south and south east and Channel 4 on Wednesday 11 July 1990

A look at what was on HTV in Wales and the West and Channel 4 on Tuesday 19 June 1990

A look at what was on Thames in London and Channel 4 on Wednesday 12 June 1985

A look at what was on Thames, London Weekend and Channel Four on Friday 2 May 1986

A look at what was on HTV West & Wales and Channel Four on Tuesday 28 February 1989

A look at what was on Thames Television, London Weekend and Channel Four on Christmas Day 1987

A look at what was on television on Christmas Day 1997

A look at what was on television on Christmas Day 2007

Channel 4 is coming, so please help your elderly neighbours tune in

A look at what was on HTV and Channel 4 on Tuesday 13 September 1988

A documentary from 13 October 1982 discusses how S4C came to be

A look at what was on Central Independent Television and C4 on Saturday 4 May 1985

A look at what was on Anglia and Channel 4 on Tuesday 1 March 1988

The anniversary of a groundbreaking drama series

A look at what was on television on Tuesday 16 November 1999

A look at what was on LWT and C4 on Saturday 30 June 1990

Channel 4’s new look examined

BLOG: Channel Four has seemingly come out fighting against its critics with their latest promotion for their channel with the tagline “We Were Born Risky…” and to highlight the statement they use various clips from the channel’s past illustrate this

BLOG: This week has seen Danny Cohen appointed as new BBC Director General Tony Hall’s Director of Television, following on from the appointment of James Harding as Head of BBC News. With Cohen’s rise to a place in the senior management team of the BBC almost as meteoric as his rise to prominence among senior television executives already.

BLOG: I love the 1980s. If you agree, you were born between 1970 and 1978, at a guess.

Remember the days of regional ITV? Granada produced World In Action, Central produced Family Fortunes and The Cook Report, and Thames (R.I.P.) productions ranged from The Bill to This Week….

Just like other long-established media sectors such as the music industry, television seems to have its own set of unwritten rules in terms of how people are handled within its…

Does C4 deserve some of the licence fee?

Now is not a good time for Welsh television broadcaster S4/C, which has just been given an ultimatum by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to draw up a financial plan for…

Chase McPherson on ten years of living under Big Brother’s gaze