Outgoing chair Terry Burns adds that sell-off wouldn’t be particularly appealing to government and uncertainty over channel’s future has been ‘disruptive’The outgoing Channel 4 chairman Terry Burns has said he struggles to see how the broadcaster’s 7pm news bulletin would survive at its current length in a primetime slot whether the channel were privatised.“It is no secret that as an economic proposition Channel 4 [News] doesn’t really do terribly well,” Burns told the Voice of the Listener and viewer conference in London. “You can see this by the absence of adverts in the breaks.
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Source: theguardian.com