Channel 4 to broadcast Ramadan morning prayers

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The channel has announced a season of programmes celebrating the Islamic holy month

Channel 4 to broadcast Ramadan morning prayers
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Terry Payne

Channel 4 is planning to broadcast Islamic morning prayers as part of a season of programmes celebrating Ramadan, it was announced this morning.

Jay Hunt, the channel’s chief creative officer, told journalists “This is something no other channel would do.”

Hunt said the exact format of the broadcasts was yet to be agreed. Asked if they would come from a mosque, she said “We are in discussions about how it would work.”

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3 Replies to “Channel 4 to broadcast Ramadan morning prayers”

  2. Channel 4 is a weird hybrid of commercial and public service broadcasting. It’s funded by advertising sales and programme sponsorship just like a regular commercial channel. It also has a public service brief, it’s a public corporation like the BBC and gets free access to the terrestrial broadcasting infrastructure (purely commercial ITV has to pay).

    Channel 4 has in the past screened excellent investigative reporting in the “Dispatches” current affairs series of programmes including “Undercover Mosque” and “Unholy War”, but has also taken their eclectic mix of programmes too far with a proposed Wank Week centering on a public mass masturbation event.

    In USA, Al Gore’s Current TV has been taken over by Al-Jazeera. The same source of finance can’t as easily take over Channel 4 but I would say that it could buy tacit editorial control by spending enough on programme sponsorship.