FACTS
Channel 4 Factsheet May 2020 We are Creators TV. Channel 4: Film. We are Digital. We are Channel 4 is a unique and distinctive part of the UK. Publicly owned but entirely commercial and self-sufficient, our public-service Challengers Champions remit mandates us to take risks and offer alternative programming, Voicing alternative views. Youth. commissioning all of our programmes externally. Experimenting and taking risks. Diversity. Provoking genuine debate and change. Education. Shaping culture. Talent. We’re a network of 12 television channels plus a streaming platform, All Telling today’s full story. Creativity. 4. We have the youngest-skewing PSB channel in the UK – and we reach more 16-34-year-olds than any other commercial broadcaster across TV and streaming. Through Film4, we back creative excellence and invest in We are British filmmakers, to huge critical acclaim – Film4 films have produced 138 Oscar nominations and 35 wins in our 37-year history. Commercial We act commercially in order to deliver our We bring to life new creative ideas and, in the process, create thousands social impact. of jobs and support hundreds of independent production companies across the UK.
Key stats (2018):
TV Digital Social Financials
10.2% 915m 1st £662m viewing share programme views on All 4 biggest channel on Facebook globally total content spend – the third highest in Channel 4’s history 15.9% viewing share among 16-34-year- 20m 87% olds – the only PSB to have greater £489m viewers registered on All 4 of Channel 4’s social media share of viewing of 16-34s than audience is aged under 35 originated content spend general population 85% 70% 10bn+ £975m Channel 4’s portfolio reach of 16-34s in the UK are Channel 4 brands achieved more than total corporation revenue of all UK individuals per month registered on All 4 10 billion views on social media in 2018 on average – or 51m people 77% 13k £138m Channel 4’s main channel reach hours of content available digital revenue, making of all UK individuals per month on demand (June 2019) – E4 has the biggest Facebook up 14% of total corporation on average – or 46m people versus 5k on BBC’s iPlayer page of all the UK broadcasters revenue
3,000 Inclusion estimated number of new production jobs in the GLASGOW Nations and Regions economy LEEDS and diversity supported by 4 All the UK have always been at the heart of Channel 4’s mission. Our ‘4 All the UK’ plan is the biggest MANCHESTER and most exciting change in our history, as we supercharge the impact we have in all parts of the country.
BRISTOL LONDON 4 All the UK: 4 All When Will Lockdown End? Channel 4’s response to One of the most recent documentaries, When Will Lockdown End? averaged just the Covid-19 crisis: over a million viewers. Including repeats across Channel 4 and 4seven, 14 coronavirus related documentaries and C4 News specials have reached 16.8m people in the UK, The Country that Beat the which equates to 27.7% of the Virus: What Can Britain UK population; within this, these Learn?: documentaries have reached nearly a fifth of all 16-34s (18.7%) With mass testing and contact tracing South Korea got on The most watched documentary top of the coronavirus. Is this so far has been Coronavirus: How the model for what Britain To Isolate Yourself (averaged 1.8m could and should do to beat viewers) – this documentary was Covid-19? particularly popular with young audiences (9.4% share of 16-34s, up +49% vs the slot norm).
(2018): Impact (2018): Channel 4’s biggest show UK adults rank Channel 4 as the best The Great public service broadcaster for: British Taking risks with programmes that other channels wouldn’t take (42% of UK select C4 as the best – the next highest Bake Off channel was selected by just 16%) reached more 16-34-year-olds (6.8 million) in 2018 than ITV2’s Love Island (6.7 million). Tackling issues other channels wouldn’t (41% of UK select C4 as the best – the next highest channel was selected by just 13%) Channel 4 Reputation News 36 7 Being experimental has the highest 16-34 of the top 50 most out of the UK’s top 10 (35% of UK select C4 as the best – the next highest audience profile of 16-34 skewing shows factual entertainment channel was selected by just 18%) any PSB National in 2018 across the PSB programmes in 2018 News programme (12% channels were from were shown on against 6-9% for other Channel 4 Channel 4 PSBs). Recent programme highlights
Britain’s Best Parent?: Wedding in Lockdown: Celebrity Gogglebox: Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Anita Rani hosts the new For hundreds of couples Featuring a rolling cast of Wins: After 3 consolidated episodes, series that explores a plethora across Britain, isolation and famous faces, some of Britain’s the series is averaging 4.2m / 16.7%
Next on Next of parenting styles and tries social distancing have meant best loved personalities turn share. All episodes have been to answer one of life’s most putting their plans for a dream their hand to being the country’s significantly higher than previous celeb hotly-debated questions - is wedding on ice. In a historic most opinionated viewers. and non-celeb versions and it’s the best there a right way to raise first for Channel 4, one bride series to date for 16-34 viewing too. children? and groom will be given a wedding celebration like no Grayson’s Art Club: Launched other – live online. with 1.3m / 6.4% share (up vs the slot average for both volume and share) making it the best performing Grayson title we have had on the channel since 2005.
Bake Off: The Murder in the Outback: Sex Tips for Isolation: Professionals: Hosted by The culmination of years of A revealing one off with Anna Liam Charles and Tom Allen, painstaking re-investigation Richardson looking at the Friday Night Dinner: Series 6 the toughest Bake Off on TV into one of the most infamous sex habits of Brits during averaged 3.9m / 18.7% per episode; returns as six new teams from cases in recent history, this lockdown, offering advice, Channel 4’s second biggest comedy top hotels, restaurants and series asks fresh questions insight and tips to keep us series on record, only behind E4’s The small businesses compete to about a story that has remained all in the mood during this Inbetweeners Series 3 in 2010 with be crowned best patisserie in public consciousness for unique crisis. 4.1m / 17.7% [records go back to 2002]. team in Britain. almost 20 years.