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Channel 4 Chair Pens Blistering Letter Warning Against “Very Harmful” Privatization Plans

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The simmering debate about UK government plans to privatize Channel 4 has boiled over into an all-out war.Channel 4 chair Charles Gurassa has written a blistering letter to culture secretary Oliver Dowden, warning that the government’s ambition to sell the It’s A Sin and Great British Bake Off network could be “very harmful” to audiences and Britain’s creative economy.Gurassa pulls no punches in his three-page missive, calling out the government’s lack of evidence for its view that Channel 4 will be better off in the hands of a new owner after it has been state-backed for nearly 40 years.“The lack of any detailed analysis, evidence or impact assessment leaves us as a Board deeply concerned given our statutory responsibility to deliver

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