Channel Four Television Corporation

Channel Four Television Corporation
	Channel Four headquarters, 124 Horseferry Road, London
Formerly	Channel Four Television Company Limited (1982–1993)
Company type	Statutory corporation
Industry	Mass media
Founded	2 November 1982
Headquarters	124 Horseferry Road, London, United Kingdom
Area served	United Kingdom; Isle of Man; Guernsey; Jersey; Ireland
Key people	Ian Cheshire; (Chairman); Alex Mahon; (Chief Executive)
Revenue	£934 million (2020); £985 million (2019);
Operating income	£74 million (2020); −£26 million (2019);
Net income	£69 million (2020); −£25 million (2019);
Total assets	£943 million (2020); £805 million (2019);
Total equity	£452 million (2020); £385 million (2019);
Owner	UK Government Investments
Number of employees	992 (2020)
Parent	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Website	channel4.com/corporate
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Channel Four Television Corporation is a British state-owned media company which runs 12 television channels, a streaming service, and film and TV production. Unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is instead funded entirely by its own commercial activities. Its original and principal activity is the British national television network Channel 4.

The company was founded in 1982 as the Channel Four Television Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the IBA, and became an independent statutory corporation in 1993. November 1998 saw Channel Four expand beyond its remit of providing the 'fourth service' in a significant way, with the launch of Film4. Since then the corporation has been involved in a range of other activities, all in some way associated with the main channel, and mainly using the '4' brand. The company also owned The Box Plus Network, a music-focused company with a network of six music television channels. They were folded into the corporation in 2019.