A Digital First BBC
Radiomike
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It seems sensible to start a separate, dedicated but all embracing, thread in light of today's announcements from the BBC about the move to a Digital First BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/plan-to-deliver-a-digital-first-bbc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/plan-to-deliver-a-digital-first-bbc
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The BBC could easily replace football with other sports with much much lower cost tv rights fee, and the commercial sector would pick up those football rights.
Hopefully Ofcom will remove the restrictions on archive content being placed on iPlayer, loving the BBC Archive channel on YouTube and Id love to see more of this content.
https://m.youtube.com/c/bbcarchive
I bet you MOTD / FA Cup is one the last sports rights the BBC would want to lose - it fills loads of airtime each week & brings in different demographics to some of BBC's other programming.
However, the thing that caught my eye was closing of BBC Four at sometime in the future. No mention of BBC Three which they closed then re-opened.
Personally I'd say having
BBC One
BBC Two
BBC Extra (combining CBBC, Three and Four programming into 1x24hr channel)
BBC News
CBeebies (6am-7pm & flog the evening slot on DTT to another channel?!)
Wouldn't be a terrible outcome for the TV side of things.
That might be the case, but it still incredible expenses and something the BBC 'doesn't need to do'. ITV and Channel 5 could do a perfectly good job with it, and the BBC could direct that money into programming other won't make.
For me, it the most incredulously waste of BBC limited funds. It time more people called this out
That's where the BBC is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't - one person's treasure is another's rubbish.
Anyway as I recall, I don't remember ITV making a massive success of their Premier League highlight show back in the day.
I think it would be easier and better for BBC Three, with its young demographic, to switch to online again, along with CBBC.
BBC Four probably ha more elderly viewers who are not as in to technology and streaming, and BBC Four has more to offer culturally.
If I am correct in thinking Cbeebies shares a stream with BBC Four currently, CBBC with BBC Three.
This spare stream the BBC will free up could be let out to another broadcaster in time
BBC Three is in an EastEnders situation where they've recently invested a stupid amount of money in it and, understandably, they want to save face.
As for BBC Four I really hope they continue to produce the type of content they have been but on iPlayer (along with weekly uploads of classic Top of the Pops).
You don't seem to understand the point of the BBC.
It was a lot better in the 2002/03 & 2003/04 seasons when they moved it to late nights and got rid of the gimmicks (like the tactics truck). Everyone remembers the disastrous first season when it was on at 7pm and displaced Blind Date. Would ITV want it back though now that Sky are making the highlights available on their YouTube channel from 6.30pm?
From the announcent
"Requesting Ofcom to remove regulatory restrictions on iPlayer to expand boxsets and archive content - with an ambition to reach 75% of BBC viewers through iPlayer each week".
The BBC have sold a stake in Britbox, so some TV content might remain there as it becomes part of ITVX, or UKTV, but more will be on iPlayer.
Some radio drama is on Audible subscription.
BBC 4 has effectively already been killed, or a least what the channel use to be last year when the BBC announced that it would become an purely archive only channel and would no longer be able to commissions new programs for itself (we've seen this with the TOTP repeats recently, where the Top of the Pops Story of 199X have had to be broadcast on BBC 2 because BBC 4 can't commission them for themselves any more). I believe the only things BBC 4 is allow to show new is live events (Proms, Sporting Events) where their isn't a place for them on another channel.
I do agree that the BBC4 audience will be more affected by the liner channel closing then would be the BBC3 audience.
It seem strange to bring back BBC3 as a liner channel and then close CBBC if the reason for bringing back BBC 3 was that younger people are still attracted to liner channels. Restarting a channel aim at 16 - 34 year old but then a few month later closing on aims at 6 - 17 year old seem very odd.
Nobody is being forced. Fact.
Tell me what I'm not seeing then?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/bbc-arts-future-projects
Dream on! Due to the fact that not everyone would be a subscriber a totally subscription BBC would be at least £500pa. You would probably be offered a deal if the BBC and Sky got together, terrestrial BBC might then close as it wouldn't be a PBS anyway and it would be just a pale shadow of its former self.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2022/digital-first-bbc-director-general-tim-davie
The aim is to reduce the cost of linear broadcast platforms as regards less watched or listened to channels. BBC Three would be another candidate for an online only presence in due course. May only leave the legacy TV and Radio channels (eg BBC One/Two and Radios 1-5) on most linear platforms eventually?
As far as the BBC is concerned BBC4 doesn't have the "right" sort of viewers, IE young.