Channel Four Television Corporation

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Channel Four Television Corporation is a state-owned public service broadcaster and media company in the UK. It owns and operates six television channels, a television streaming service, and Film4 Productions, its film development and financing unit. Its six television channels are Channel 4, E4, E4 Extra, More4, Film4 and 4seven. Unlike the BBC, the UK's other state-owned broadcaster, Channel Four Television Corporation receives no public funding and is instead funded entirely by its own commercial activities - primarily advertising. The company was founded in 1980 as the Channel Four Television Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the IBA, and became an independent statutory corporation in 1993. In November 1998, the company significantly expanded its remit, of providing the 'fourth television service', with the launch of Film4, its film unit. The company has, since then, been involved in a range of other activities, all in some way associated with the main channel, and...

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