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Closed Stop the Selloff of Channel 4.

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Channel 4 is a PSB broadcaster, which has produced high quality programming for the last 33 years, and is an important supporter of the British film industry. If the government sells it off as they plan to the British television industry will deteriorate, will become another channel 5.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34354216
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/channel-4-privatisation-would-be-an-ideological-fire-sale-labour-says-10516499.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/11671049/SUNDAY-INTERVIEW-Channel-4-chief-David-Abraham-prepares-for-privatisation-battlechannel-4-humans-david-abraham.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/08/channel-4-privatisation-snp-john-nicolson_n_8504430.html

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