Re: Not wanting to state the obvious
raise you Channel4
Hmmm... I'll grant you that C4 is these days in a better position than ITV as a whole, but it has come from a completely different place (always a "national" broadcaster rather than many "local" ones), and you only have to look at the absolute dross it produced in the 1980s and 1990s (when it was part-funded by the ITV companies) to see how far it has come as (now) a self-funding, non-profit concern.
I'd still contend it doesn't have the breadth of content that the BBC does, particularly when it comes to commercially difficult stuff like children's TV. News is now a lot better than it once was though.
M.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
