Today's Ofcom report argues that Channel 4 should become part of a new organisation with a strong public service broadcasting remit, and suggests this could be facilitated by giving C4 the £130m-a-year BBC licence fee digital switchover surplus to use as funding to take a stake in BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm. Second idea: C4 could merge with Five.
There are virtues in the first idea and, as I say in my London Evening Standard column today none in the latter. Whatever happens, I believe C4's PSB output must be preserved.
