so where did it go wrong? well, i m not sure that it went wrong. i mean, obviously, this is the government s decision to make. what i would say is it s never quiet times at channel 4. this is not a job you would take if you wanted an easy life and a restful retirement. how often do you speak to the dcms or to nadine dorries? well, i speak to the dcms plenty, you know, i ll be speaking to them later on today. i spoke to them last week. we have a lot of interaction with them, we ve had a lot of interaction with them during the pandemic where they ve been a very supportive department in the industry. but obviously now i m speaking to them a little more than usual. is you say they ve been supportive, but they did say your recent proposals for channel 4 were based on flawed assumptions. so clearly, at some level, you re not successfully managing to make your case. i m sure you ve reflected on why. why do you think that hasn t happened? well, i think my position on privatisation is
that it went wrong. i mean, obviously, this is the government s decision to make. what i would say is it s never quiet times at channel 4. this is not a job you would take if you wanted an easy life and a restful retirement. how often do you speak to the dcms or to nadine dorries? well i speak to dcms plenty, you know, i ll be speaking to them later on today. i spoke to them last week. we have a lot of interaction with them, we ve had a lot of interaction with them during the pandemic where they ve been a very supportive department in the industry. but obviously now i m speaking to them a little more than usual. you say they ve been supportive, but they did say your recent proposals for channel 4 were based on flawed assumptions. so clearly, at some level, you re not successfully managing to make your case. i m sure you ve reflected on why. why do you think that hasn t happened? well, i think my position on privatisation is very clear on the public record, but the decision ha
hello. welcome to the media show. welcome too to the headquarters of channel 4 in central london. and we re here because the government has confirmed it s pushing on with its plans to privatise channel 4, despite the reservations of the broadcaster. so we re going to look through all of the issues that this raises with our guest today, the ceo of channel 4, alex mahon. alex, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. this wasn t the outcome you wanted. so where did it go wrong? well, i m not sure that it went wrong. i mean, obviously, this is the government s decision to make. what i would say is it s never quiet times at channel 4. this is not a job you would take if you wanted an easy life and a restful retirement. how often do you speak to the dcms or to nadine dorries? well i speak to dcms plenty, you know, i ll be speaking to them later on today. i spoke to them last week. we have a lot of interaction with them, we ve had a lot of interaction with them during the pandemic
meet with the taoiseach in the course of the coming week also. now it s time for a look at the weather with darren bett. a warm awarm and a warm and cloud the sunny start to the weekend. a warm and cloud the sunny start to the weekend. we are going to see the weather changing, and towards the south west of england by this evening we have got more cloud andmay be some showers which will push northwards, but mainly affecting the more southern parts of england, and we could get heavy and thundery downpours into the night. further north it will be chillier in scotland where we have got clearer skies, but there could be a few showers by the morning as far north as scotland and ireland. the heavy ones will move away. generally, showers are developing further north and moving further north, allowing more in the way of warm sunshine to come across southern parts of england and wales, and northern parts of scotland mainly missing the showers entirely. cooler than today, the breeze beg
gets better. the country has been rocked by demonstrations of our soaring prices, power cuts and a lack of medicine. he was appointed in an attempt to diffuse the protests. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. welcome to the media show. welcome too to the headquarters of channel 4 in central london. and we re here because the government has confirmed it s pushing on with its plans to privatise channel 4, despite the reservations of the broadcaster. so we re going to look through all of the issues that this raises with our guest today, the ceo of channel 4, alex mahon. alex, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. this wasn t the outcome you wanted. so where did it go wrong? well, i m not sure that it went wrong. i mean, obviously, this is the government s decision to make. what i would say is it s never quiet times at channel 4. this is not a job you would take if you wanted an easy life and a restful retirement. how often do you speak to the dcms or to nadine dorries? w