A couple of weeks ago 4oD began adding thousands of programmes from the C4’s archive onto channel4.com. This filled our hearts with joy, and your feedback – and the traffic you’re generating – suggests you’re also pretty happy with it too.
However, adding thousands of programmes to 4oD also made us realise we’d created a nice, [...]

Britain’s Forgotten Children

Yesterday afternoon saw the launch of my latest project – Adoption Experience www.channel4.com/adopt – this is the thinking behind it:
“Adoption is an area of childcare and family life shrouded in misconception, myth and confusion. The best way to untangle the realities from the rumours and hearsay is to focus on real people’s [...]

A number of Channel 4 news forum users have expressed disappointment that the forums were closed and have been asking questions about the new news blogs.
As  Forked Tongue remarked in his comment, the old news forums did not appear to have anything to do with the flagship Channel 4 News programme.
The idea behind channelling comments [...]

For many years Channel4 has run forums as an adjunct to the main site. They are perennially popular. The Big Brother forum in particular is huge when the show is on air.
The problems with running forums, from a publisher’s perspective are:
1) They need moderating and moderation is expensive; running into the hundreds of thousands of [...]