01-05-2022, 01:22 PM
I still can't understand why they brought BBC 3 back, I accept they don't have a crystal ball but clearly, even looking at the schedules from over the last few years it's been pretty clear there hasn't been enough quality content to go around, with even BBC One looking seriously stretched during daytimei.
Merging 2,3,4 into a single channel with any overspill just going on iPlayer - is such an obvious solution to the problem. Archive stuff can go on iPlayer anyway.
I think recycling content on CBBC and CBeebies is less of a problem because the audiences for those channels typically only sticks around for a few years, they've only got the cost of the doing the links then.
BBC 2 has lost it's identity which doesn't help, in the 1990s, particularly after the rebrand it was the place where you'd find alternative comedy and less mainstream stuff - 2,3,4 content seem such a natural fit to continue that genre split.
getting rid of BBC 3 and 4 is certainly preferable to dumping BBC Parliament or News 24, which would be a catastrophe.
Merging 2,3,4 into a single channel with any overspill just going on iPlayer - is such an obvious solution to the problem. Archive stuff can go on iPlayer anyway.
I think recycling content on CBBC and CBeebies is less of a problem because the audiences for those channels typically only sticks around for a few years, they've only got the cost of the doing the links then.
BBC 2 has lost it's identity which doesn't help, in the 1990s, particularly after the rebrand it was the place where you'd find alternative comedy and less mainstream stuff - 2,3,4 content seem such a natural fit to continue that genre split.
getting rid of BBC 3 and 4 is certainly preferable to dumping BBC Parliament or News 24, which would be a catastrophe.
trust me, I'm a lobster.