BBC Four & CBBC to close

[Roger Darthwell]

I don't see any reason to keep the channel, other than MAYBE an overspill for sports and arts coverage. And being that it is currently being reported by The Times, a newspaper which arguably doesn't like the BBC and neither do any of the other newspapers owned by News UK, I'd say don't worry about it until a newspaper like The Guardian starts reporting on it.

I'm being quite optimistic about the whole ordeal, I get the reasons to axe BBC Four, as it has since reshifted into a repeats channel but there's a lot of stuff on the BBC worth repeating that it arguably doesn't matter, they could easily rely on acquired foriegn content and their own archives for at least a few years running, but I do wonder if a "BBC Extra" channel would essentially allow BBC to still run a 4th channel, albeit for extra coverage if say, most other channels aren't able to.

Also, I genuinely feel BBCMeridan is poking holes at things that are successful just because they don't watch them or see value in it, even though the BBC is meant to cater for everyone. Whether it's axing a pre-school channel or shows that are successful, it just seems they lose the plot a lot.

I think that BBC Four could be a brilliant archive channel, bear in mind that the BBC had LOADS of stuff from it's archives that they can show.......I mean personally if one day BBC Four only shows old episodes of Tomorrow's World dating back to the early 80s, I wouldn't complain.