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Originally Posted by General Maximus
Na, i'll stop now. I just wanted to point out the contradiction of cost savings and reopening a channel. A few months when there was all the stink about budgets and funding the tv license for OAPs they said services would have to reduce, not increase.
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It's not necessarily the contradiction it first appears. The BBC still has to make BBC3 programming because it is charter-bound to cater for that target audience. However if it has evidence that delivering it online reaches substantially fewer of the people it's made for, then they have a cost effectiveness problem. The BBC also already owns a shedload of broadcast technology and infrastructure and has the expertise in house; it's not even clear that they would have to rent transmitter or transponder space in order to bring BBC3 back because they always have some in reserve. The additional cost in absolute terms is minimal, and the cost per viewer is possibly actually lower.