BBC Four & CBBC to close

[i.h]

In all of this I feel sorry for the kids of the parents on Universal Credit who don’t have a phone or internet access and use the free kids channels, they lose out most from this.

On paper this is a good argument for a children's strand on one of the remaining linear channels.  However, 97% of the UK has internet access so I'm not sure it really stands up once you dive into the figures.  Also BT and Virgin offer heavily discounted broadband for those on Universal Credit.

Another issue is that there is still some parts of the Uk that don’t really get broadband that is fast enough to use to stream Tv.

I'm unconvinced that scrapping linear broadcasting will save much, but:

you really don't need that much bandwidth - a few megs. BT recently refreshed their discounted package to give you up to 40Mbps, with up to 80Mbps for a little bit more per month, and I believe the Virgin equivalent is similar.

With VDSL/FTTH coverage as good as it is we're basically talking miniscule numbers of people here. Even my grandparents could get 80Mbps if they had wanted to, and they were in the middle of nowhere.