Not many, but it will increase the likelyhood that they will vote for the Licence Fee to be scrapped if it were to happen.
This is what the Tory scum want, everything to be privatised, lets not forget that they are friends with a certain Mr Murdoch, whose companies would benefit from the TV Licence being abolished.
That is what I have seen saying all this time, Murdoch has been exposed, why should anyone be on his side...
I will only accept any sell-off of the BBC if it means other boradcasters have much tigher PSBs and little if any adverts (and only between programmes)
As it turns out... broadcast is the superior concept. "Online" is just parasitically re-using broadcast content and has made zero progress in going it's own way.
Online streaming has been unable to stand on it's as a provider of original TV content. Even amongst the young who would be expected to be more receptive to that sort of thing.
Recently Amazon Prime took on-board a BBC programme, Ripper Street. Why would Amazon do that? Can they not create their own programming and get people to watch it?
No, they can't. The psychology of streaming does not work to duplicate the "TV experience".
BBC3 content exclusively online is a dead idea that will go nowhere.
TV internet streaming is still in it infancy, and without a massive increase in the broadband speeds in this country is going to be a slow grower.
Streaming via the Internet just cannot match the quality of broadcast TV. When I streaming I do mean live streaming, not on-demand streaming such as Netflix.
That is what I have seen saying all this time, Murdoch has been exposed, why should anyone be on his side...
I will only accept any sell-off of the BBC if it means other boradcasters have much tigher PSBs and little if any adverts (and only between programmes)
Sadly what you will or won't accept is of little or no relevance
It would not be first time that ways have been found to avoid a closure that has ben announced (or leaked).
Only good things is, does it mean we will get BBC4 in HD on Freeview Lite?
There are many unanswered questions at this stage, but I would expect so. A lot of re-jigging will have to happen one way or another - because of the way Three/CBBC and Four/CBeebies are linked through the production chain.
Such a scenario would leave only CBeebies HD on the COM7 mux. Not entirely sure how they would deal with that.
If they don't keep the Three branding for online, then it'll confuse people as to why there is a BBC ONE, TWO and FOUR, but no THREE. What will happen it's slot on Freeview though. Will CBBC extend hours or will BBC One+1 be a 7pm and after only channel? Will be interesting to see how thin pans out.
So BBC Three HD may be one of the shortest-lived HD channels to have existed. I guess they'll have to put secondary live football on BBC Two in the future? Or maybe reintroduce BBC Red Button HD...but then surely that'd cost money too?
So BBC Three HD may be one of the shortest-lived HD channels to have existed. I guess they'll have to put secondary live football on BBC Two in the future? Or maybe reintroduce BBC Red Button HD...but then surely that'd cost money too?
Move the Red Button service to online-only perhaps?
Considering its part-time (and intermittent) nature, it might be seen as a sensible move.
I would have merged CBBC and Cbeebies to be honest I still do not see the point of CBBC being on air during school hours.
BBC Three was always going to go, axing BBC Four would have almost certainly caused more uproar with middle England and The Daily Mail. I just hope the demise of BBC Three doesn't lead to the BBC losing touch with the youth market. It is important for them to remember young people are the next generation of BBC viewers, don't abandon them completely.
I would agree with this, because before they launched the separate channels children's programming always shared screen time, with Cbeebies content being shown first followed by CBBC.
well obviously not enough people like the dumbed down junk they are churning out or else it wouldn't be chopped. hey?
Viewing figures for BBC 3 are quite good so you are wrong. Besides if high viewing figures mean less dumbing down then that would mean ITV offers more intelligent programming than BBC 4. Do you really believe that?
I don't think Middle England or the Daily Mail are fans of BBC Four to be honest, ITV3 is more their channel. I quite agree though, I really hope this doesn't mean that younger people turn their back on the BBC.
Of course it will. But this is just further that today's older generations are more self-centred than generations before.
It's a "Me, Me, Me" attitude, not helped by the fallacy that younger generations watch everything online and on Youtube.
Can't help but think that this decision won't have been helped by the fact that the people that did take part in the BBC's information gathering about their services will have all been older too.
They have basically starting to put the nails into the Licence Fee's coffin with this stupid decision.
What a stupid idea it is to provide less for the Generations that will decide on their funding in the future...
In fact just screw the kids channels altogether. Dump the daytime crap and repeats that are currently shown on BBC1/BBC2, and put the kids stuff on there.......you know, like they used to do in the 70's/80's!!>:(
In fact just screw the kids channels altogether. Dump the daytime crap and repeats that are currently shown on BBC1/BBC2, and put the kids stuff on there.......you know, like they used to do in the 70's/80's!!>:(
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Talking about it on Radio 5 now.
Richard Bacon sounds upset. That's a lot of work he'll be missing out on.
The last figures for content that I saw said that content cost just £2 million a year. And the DTT bitrate was around 2.6Mbps
Only good things is, does it mean we will get BBC4 in HD on Freeview Lite?
It is no longer a tabloid (or broadsheet) rumour. It's on the BBC News website and BBC News and BBC 5 Live
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26447089
That is what I have seen saying all this time, Murdoch has been exposed, why should anyone be on his side...
I will only accept any sell-off of the BBC if it means other boradcasters have much tigher PSBs and little if any adverts (and only between programmes)
Streaming via the Internet just cannot match the quality of broadcast TV. When I streaming I do mean live streaming, not on-demand streaming such as Netflix.
Sadly what you will or won't accept is of little or no relevance
Unless you are a Government minister ??
Closing BBC3 down doesn't mean the BBC would stop making programmes aimed at young adults.
Considering what pitiful viewing figures BBC3 gets it hasn't been that successful at what its trying to do anyway.
The US version of Netflix is far superior to the UK version.
There are many unanswered questions at this stage, but I would expect so. A lot of re-jigging will have to happen one way or another - because of the way Three/CBBC and Four/CBeebies are linked through the production chain.
Such a scenario would leave only CBeebies HD on the COM7 mux. Not entirely sure how they would deal with that.
The only trouble is that if this is a success they might then decide to do the same with BBC4
Those channels not being on Analogue was not a cost issue like this is.
Considering its part-time (and intermittent) nature, it might be seen as a sensible move.
Of course it will. But this is just further that today's older generations are more self-centred than generations before.
It's a "Me, Me, Me" attitude, not helped by the fallacy that younger generations watch everything online and on Youtube.
Can't help but think that this decision won't have been helped by the fact that the people that did take part in the BBC's information gathering about their services will have all been older too.
They have basically starting to put the nails into the Licence Fee's coffin with this stupid decision.
What a stupid idea it is to provide less for the Generations that will decide on their funding in the future...
In fact just screw the kids channels altogether. Dump the daytime crap and repeats that are currently shown on BBC1/BBC2, and put the kids stuff on there.......you know, like they used to do in the 70's/80's!!>:(
Good idea.