BBC Four & CBBC to close

[natashajacobs]

Overseas, It has already happened. DR (Dansk Radio) axing DR3 in 2013 and merged them with DR P3 (Radio station) this year, and NPO also cut some funding since 2010 and closed two digital channels in 2012.

Assuming in long-term some services need to be merge to survive the budget cut, CBBC and CBeebies can be merge to single channel and retaining the former name, in similar way that BBC News and World News that also need to merge because we didn't need a duplicate channels that are essentially same audience target and same genre. I also think in my opinion, Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra can also be merge, renamed as just Radio 5 (like in early 90s era), because we don't need a duplicated stations that are essentially same genre (sport), and move most news-related content to Radio 4.

Afaik radio 5 is super cheap and radio 4 has over 4x the budget so if anything they would start to cull some of the content on radio 4. Indeed I wonder if they will start to use some of the sounds podcasts to fill airtime on both stations