Channel 4 (UK) Channel 4 is the fourth television station in the United Kingdom, which started broadcasting on November 2, 1982. Although Channel 4 is a public broadcaster, it broadcasts commercial advertisements like private television stations. The establishment of Channel 4 was the product of a compromise between the BBC and independent television stations for the fourth television station in the UK.

Radio 4 started broadcasting with ethnic minorities, youth, intellectuals and other ethnic groups as its audience. Channel 4 has been growing rapidly in the BBC's monopoly of the British media industry with its innovative programme content and format, and has become a unique brand after years of development.

Channel 4 New Media has kept up with the trend of new media changes, combined with the Internet, cell phones and TV, etc., and created many of its own Internet audio and video programs, which are unique in the field of new media and have had a great impact on the British media industry.