Wolf Hall director says ITV’s flotation led to a collapse in programme standards and its rival would face the same fate whether it were to be sold off
Peter Kosminsky: Privatising C4 would be a catastrophe for risk-taking programmes Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky has warned against privatising Channel 4,saying it would repeat mistakes made with ITV and that the channel “as we know it today would cease to exist.
Writing in the Guardian, Kosminsky said ITV’s flotation on the stock market in 1991 “led to an nearly immediate collapse in ITV programme standards” and warned of a similar fate for Channel 4 whether it were to be sold off.
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Source: theguardian.com