26-05-2022, 04:08 PM
Not happy with a lot of this, not that it's the BBC's fault of course.
In the case of BBC Four and Radio 4 Extra, I hope that archive content continues to appear online (I'm looking forward to TOTP getting to my heyday of the mid-90s, for a start!). A lot of classic radio comedy on Sounds is only there because of a recent 4 Extra TX so I hope they can get more stuff on there long-term.
Pleased that at least CBeebies isn't being touched, as that is incredibly valuable as a linear channel. I won't hold out much hope but it would be nice if CBBC could at least get a weekday after-school slot again on BBC One or Two, that "shop window" is important. And of course Saturday mornings as well. Otherwise, it does give the feeling that the BBC is potentially abandoning a whole demographic (yes, I know stuff will continue on iPlayer) which it then becomes desperate to win back once it reaches the right age for BBC Three.
World and News merging, again not too surprising, sometimes in the simulcast hours that were added due to Covid you can really feel the domestic and international sides butting against each other so it'll be interesting to see how they resolve that. I wonder if this means continuing to run the domestic channel the way it is done now but just with simulcast hours all the time, or it being fully absorbed into what is currently World News with the UK being another of its many regional versions.
In the case of BBC Four and Radio 4 Extra, I hope that archive content continues to appear online (I'm looking forward to TOTP getting to my heyday of the mid-90s, for a start!). A lot of classic radio comedy on Sounds is only there because of a recent 4 Extra TX so I hope they can get more stuff on there long-term.
Pleased that at least CBeebies isn't being touched, as that is incredibly valuable as a linear channel. I won't hold out much hope but it would be nice if CBBC could at least get a weekday after-school slot again on BBC One or Two, that "shop window" is important. And of course Saturday mornings as well. Otherwise, it does give the feeling that the BBC is potentially abandoning a whole demographic (yes, I know stuff will continue on iPlayer) which it then becomes desperate to win back once it reaches the right age for BBC Three.
World and News merging, again not too surprising, sometimes in the simulcast hours that were added due to Covid you can really feel the domestic and international sides butting against each other so it'll be interesting to see how they resolve that. I wonder if this means continuing to run the domestic channel the way it is done now but just with simulcast hours all the time, or it being fully absorbed into what is currently World News with the UK being another of its many regional versions.