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Originally Posted by vincerooney
never saw the rationality of BBC 4 since it was basically just BBC 2 (again). BBC1 was the mainstream channel. BBC 2 the sort of educational/high brow channel and bbc 3 the young people channel.
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Given from what l have read and that BBC 2 is full of repeats l suspect quite a lot of the content will end up on there and on BBC 3.
Personally l enjoy some of the BBC 4 content myself.
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Originally Posted by vincerooney
cannot for the life of me understand why they gutted the youngster channel and kept bbc 4 when all their shows could have been aired on bbc2 in theory.
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Thats a question that can only be answered by them Vince as personally l would have not got rid of the youth channel.
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Originally Posted by vincerooney
Part of me cynically thinks since 2010 a lot of conservative members have been put on the bbc board....and yet in my eyes the bbc news department has been rather pro tory especially with laura kussenberg. But then again a lot of people on social media say its biased to labour which ive never thought in the slightest but hey ho its the social media world ripping the world apart with "he said, she said" interpretations and to be brutally honest i can't be bothered anymore ...
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Lets not get into the politics of it as there are enough threads on this forum on politics methinks.
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Originally Posted by vincerooney
i think either way a public broadcaster dying is a bad thing but neither do i agree with how its been run. the danger is letting the fox in the pen though and now we will have money men running all the channels portraying what they want to be known ala fox news.
which btw never launched on virgin media sadly for the comedy value
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Well hopefully the BBC will never become the UK equivalent of Fox News Vince as l still think they do a good job given the circumstances.