Thread: General BBC3 to become online only
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Old 05-03-2014, 18:13   #37
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Re: BBC3 to become online only

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
I'm not sure what the plan is here, if the intention is to save money. In broadcast terms, Three is the same channel as Cbeebies. One shuts down at 1858, the other starts at 1900, in the same stream on the same mux. The EPG of your chosen tellybox generally (but not always) maintains the illusion of separateness by preventing you seeing the channels on each other's EPG number.

Therefore they can't relinquish that slot because they still need it, unless they're going to make the blindingly obvious money-saving decision and stop broadcasting programmes for school-age kids during the school day. They could then consolidate Cbeebies and CBBC into the same channel for broadcast from 0600 to 1900 daily (which is more or less what CITV does already) and then switch to BBC Four for the evening.
Yes, it doesn't seem to make much sense from the information we have thus far.

When the BBC talk about making BBC3 online only, we are assuming that they mean i player only. Perhaps it means (on Freeview at least) delivery for BBC3 via IPTV in the same way as the 'Connect' services??
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