BBC Four & CBBC to close

[Kunst]

I can understand pay TV, but can you explain why, if everything is inevitable, that there has been such an outcry over here over the closure of all these channels?

Well, BBC Three wasn't exactly a "small channel from a small company"  .
They were losing some visibility by just staying as a streaming service, especially when it comes to newer produced programming.

BBC is influential in whatever they do, it's understandable there's an outcry and all that stuff, but I like to stay realistic too 
BBC Four's budget and role has been greatly reduced, and the CBBC audience is quite technology-savvy.

CBeebies is kind of an accompaniment (as many preschooler channels are) for parents that want to leave their children stuck in front of a TV; and it doesn't have annoying adverts and it's much more education than the commercial counterparts like Nick Jr and Tiny POP, so it's understandable and its closure would be very controversial

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Oh, and merging CBBC and Cbeebies would never ever work; completely different audience, audiences which have been quite split and catered for a long time