Just because Nadine Dories drunkenly talks nonsense about Channel 4, to an extent that she makes her cabinet colleagues look like geniuses in comparison, you do

Just because Nadine Dories drunkenly talks nonsense about Channel 4, to an extent that she makes her cabinet colleagues look like geniuses in comparison, you don't have to believe her. Here's a snippet from Wikipedia for example, plenty of other sources are available: "As of 2022, it breaks even in much the same way as most privately run commercial stations through the sale of on-air advertising, programme sponsorship, and the sale of any programme content and merchandising rights it owns, such as overseas broadcasting rights and domestic video sales. For example, as of 2012 its total revenues were £925 million with 91 per cent derived from sale of advertising." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4 They get no money from the license fee, from taxes, nor from the government. Except when the government chooses to spend tax money buying and spaces on TV, which would be no different to private companies selling ads to government.