My Lords, the Minister has made much of the competitive challenges facing Channel 4 and has referred particularly—as have many other commentators today—to Netflix and the other streaming services. Does he believe that those are the right comparators? Netflix is doing a completely different job from Channel 4, and it is not reasonable to suggest that Netflix represents a significantly greater threat to Channel 4 than to anybody else, or indeed, that Channel 4 and Netflix cannot coexist within a complicated and sophisticated media landscape.
Channel 4 Privatisation
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 5 April 2022.
It occurred during Private notice question on Channel 4 Privatisation.
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