State-owned broadcaster’s plans to cement its dominance ‘won’t add up’ for ‘profit-maximising’ entity
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• Wider, stronger, longer: Channel 4’s coverage will break Paralympic record
Channel 4’s successful decade-long mission to make the Paralympics a fixture on prime-time TV could be cast aside by a new owner if the government sells the state-owned broadcaster to the highest bidder, according to a former chairman and chief executive.
Channel 4 plans to broadcast a record 1,300 hours of coverage of the Tokyo Games, almost three times the amount the
BBC managed with its Olympic coverage, cementing its place as the world’s leading Paralympic broadcaster.