An employment tribunal has held that Channel 4’s decision to remove John McCririck as a presenter of Channel 4 Racing was not direct discrimination on the grounds of his age. Channel 4 successfully argued that the decision was made because of his image and presenting style. Although the tribunal found that Channel 4’s objectives in removing the presenter were similar to those of the BBC in O’Reilly v British Broadcasting Corporation, where direct age discrimination was found to have occurred, it decided that in this case Channel 4 did not reach its decision because of Mr McCririck’s age.