“That’s what I would I do. I think it’ll probably happen, because frankly it’s very difficult to see how Channel Four survives in its present form. And it’s not it’s fault. It’s that the market is changing in every conceivable moment.”
According to The Guardian, another reported model was for Channel 4 — which several years ago was under threat of privatisation by the then Conservative government — to operate as a semi-independent entity under BBC Studios, the BBC’s for-profit arm.
At the time, a BBC spokesperson said there were “no ongoing discussions” about the merger of the BBC and Channel 4 “nor are we developing a proposal to do so.”
