Channel Four Funding
EDM number 1344 in 1993-94, proposed by Anthony Coombs on 17/06/1994.
That this House congratulates Channel 4 on achieving an 11 per cent. audience share in 1993, which was higher than BBC 2's, whilst maintaining the remit, and on increasing advertising revenues by 35 per cent. in its first year of selling its airtime in competition with ITV; notes that through the funding formula in the 1990 Broadcasting Act Channel 4 has to pay ú38 million to ITV in respect of 1993 and is projected to pay up to ú500 million to ITV over the 10 year licence period; notes that the ITV companies projected no more than ú100 million to income from Channel 4 over their licence period and that that expectation will already have been met by 1995; notes the recent ITV companies have cut their programme investment against a background of rising profitability; believes that it is perverse for Channel 4 to subsidize its more commercial competitor which has almost three times as much to spend on programmes; notes that independent sources, such as the Henley Centre, do not believe Channel 4 will at any time have to call upon the Government to introduce proposals to abolish the Channel 4 funding formula so as to strengthen the Channel's ability to carry out its remit, to invest in more original drama, children's programmes and British films such as The Crying Game and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Anthony Coombs | 17/06/1994 | Wyre Forest | Proposed | |
Geoff Hoon | 17/06/1994 | Ashfield | Signed | |
Keith Hampson | 17/06/1994 | Leeds North West | Signed | |
Glenda Jackson | 17/06/1994 | Hampstead & Highgate | Signed | |
Robert Maclennan | 17/06/1994 | Caithness and Sutherland | Signed | |
Ernie Ross | 20/06/1994 | Dundee West | Signed | |
Alan Howarth | 20/06/1994 | Stratford-on-Avon | Signed | |
John McAllion | 20/06/1994 | Dundee East | Signed | |
William McKelvey | 20/06/1994 | Kilmarnock & Loudoun | Signed | |
Keith Bradley | 20/06/1994 | Manchester, Withington | Signed | |
John Cummings | 20/06/1994 | Easington | Signed | |
Jim Dowd | 20/06/1994 | Lewisham West | Signed | |
Norman Godman | 20/06/1994 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | Signed | |
David Knox | 21/06/1994 | Staffordshire Moorlands | Signed | |
Paul Tyler | 21/06/1994 | North Cornwall | Signed | |
Paddy Tipping | 21/06/1994 | Sherwood | Signed | |
Hugh Bayley | 21/06/1994 | York, City of | Signed | |
John Evans | 21/06/1994 | St Helens North | Signed | |
James Couchman | 21/06/1994 | Gillingham | Signed | |
Alex Carlile | 21/06/1994 | Montgomery | Signed | |
Peter Hardy | 21/06/1994 | Wentworth | Signed | |
John Battle | 22/06/1994 | Leeds West | Signed | |
Richard Burden | 22/06/1994 | Birmingham, Northfield | Signed | |
Ken Livingstone | 22/06/1994 | Brent East | Signed | |
John Hutton | 22/06/1994 | Barrow & Furness | Signed | |
John Home Robertson | 22/06/1994 | East Lothian | Signed | |
John Heppell | 22/06/1994 | Nottingham East | Signed | |
Clive Soley | 22/06/1994 | Hammersmith | Signed | |
Lynne Jones | 22/06/1994 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Signed | |
David Clelland | 23/06/1994 | Tyne Bridge | Signed | |
Tom Cox | 23/06/1994 | Tooting | Signed | |
Neil Gerrard | 23/06/1994 | Walthamstow | Signed | |
Simon Hughes | 27/06/1994 | Southwark and Bermondsey | Signed | |
James Callaghan | 27/06/1994 | Heywood & Middleton | Signed | |
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 28/06/1994 | Crewe & Nantwich | Signed | |
Michael Fabricant | 28/06/1994 | Staffordshire Mid | Signed | |
Martyn Jones | 29/06/1994 | Clwyd South West | Signed | |
Anthony Grant | 29/06/1994 | Cambridge South West | Signed | |
Kate Hoey | 29/06/1994 | Vauxhall | Signed | |
Kim Howells | 30/06/1994 | Pontypridd | Signed | |
Dennis Turner | 30/06/1994 | Wolverhampton South East | Signed | |
Audrey Wise | 30/06/1994 | Preston | Signed | |
Toby Jessel | 04/07/1994 | Twickenham | Signed | |
Hugh Dykes | 04/07/1994 | Harrow East | Signed | |
Diane Abbott | 04/07/1994 | Hackney North & Stoke Newington | Signed | |
John Maxton | 05/07/1994 | Glasgow, Cathcart | Signed | |
Dale Campbell-Savours | 07/07/1994 | Workington | Signed | |
Mike Gapes | 20/07/1994 | Ilford South | Signed | |
John Gunnell | 20/07/1994 | Leeds South and Morley | Signed |
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