Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence–funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network,ITV.

As you can see, Channel 4 holds many documentary's throughout the night and I would say the most popular for showing them. This is why I think our documentary would be perfect for this channel.

• Public service remit• The public service remit for Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high

quality and diverse programming which, in particular:• demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of

programmes;• appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society;• makes a significant contribution to meeting the need for the licensed public

service channels to include programmes of an educational nature and other programmes of educative value; and

• exhibits a distinctive character.“

• FundingDuring the station's formative years, funding came from the ITV companies in return for their right to sell advertisements in their region on the fourth channel.Nowadays it pays for itself in much the same way as most privately run commercial stations, i.e. through the sale of on-air advertising, programme sponsorship, and the sale of any programme content and merchandising rights it owns, such as overseas sales and video sales. It also has the ability to subsidise the main network through any profits made on the corporation's other endeavours, which have in the past included subscription fees from stations such as E4 and Film4 (now no longer subscription services) and its 'video-on-demand' sales.