Channel 4 offers to sell London HQ under alternative plan to privatisation

Broadcaster proposes almost doubling staff outside capital and becoming northern-based'

Channel 4 has said it could sell its 100m London headquarters and almost double the number of staff working outside the capital, to become northern-based" under a plan it hopes offers an attractive alternative to the government's privatisation push.

Describing itself in the proposals as the levelling up broadcaster", it said it intended to increase spending on TV shows commissioned by production companies outside of London by hundreds of millions of pounds annually by 2030, in a move it estimated would create at least 3,000 jobs.