{"id":671,"date":"2007-10-29T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2007-10-29T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T08:44:00","slug":"the-future-of-channel-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/10\/the-future-of-channel-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of Channel 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">D<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.city.ac.uk\/journalism\/people\/faculty\/dlloyd.html\" target=\"_blank\">avid Lloyd<\/a> calls for a new public endowment for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Channel 4<\/span> in the <a style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2007\/oct\/29\/channel4.mondaymediasection1\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an edit of a very entertaining lecture he gave at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">City University<\/span> last Tuesday &#8211; and which we\u2019ll post soon on our website.<\/p>\n<p>He mischievously fuelled speculation that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mark Thompson<\/span> wasn\u2019t the first choice for Channel 4 CEO when the job fell vacant, post <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Jackson_%28TV%29\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you think students provide an awestruck and adoring audience, you couldn\u2019t be more wrong. David\u2019s plea for the channel was challenged most powerfully by students in their twenties who recall nothing of its output before the late 1990s. They\u2019re a tough crowd&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lloyd calls for a new public endowment for Channel 4 in the Guardian today. It\u2019s an edit of a very entertaining lecture he gave at City University last Tuesday &#8211; and which we\u2019ll post soon on our website. He mischievously fuelled speculation that Mark Thompson wasn\u2019t the first choice for Channel 4 CEO when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[231,61],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-channel-4","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}