BBC Four & CBBC to close

[gottago]

To all those saying CBeebies and cbbc couldn’t be merged, why couldn’t they do CBeebies from 9.30-3.30 and cbbc outside of those times? Keeping their own respective EPG places. Any parents wanting the CBeebies bedtime stories or whatever could just put it on iPlayer. Not personably advocating this but curious as to why so many think it’s impossible

That is an option of course but that deprives the bigger CBeebies audience of programmes at peaktimes of the day, and it is presumably an audience less likely to stream shows compared to the older kids. Having a BBC Two block at breakfast and/or afternoons for CBBC just makes more sense IMO.

I think the BBC Two slots are a likely compromise for CBBC. BBC Two barely registers ratings-wise until the 5pm Flog It repeats on weekdays so I can see it being an easy way of defusing any concerns about closing the channel further down the line. I wonder if Pres would survive though.