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Originally Posted by fox35
Err, so who OWNS and finances BBC Studios?
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The whole point of BBC Worldwide, which was folded into BBC Studios, was to make money to
add to the money the BBC gets from the Licence Fee, so it's doing the financing of the wider BBC, the BBC isn't funding it.
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Freeview may get Travel Channel back if Really fold into Quest Red and TLC happen.
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According to BARB ratings Quest Red had a 0.48 share of total viewing in April 2019, TLC had 0.21 and Really had 0.64.
Of course TLC is a Pay channel so the money from that would offset the lower ratings to an extent.
DMAX, which replaced Travel Channel on Freeview in January (and went FTA on Freesat at the same time) had a 0.34 rating in April. DMAX had 0.03 in the last month before the change. Travel Channel had 0.32 rating in the month before the change and was 0.03 in April.
Given Really is higher rating than Quest Red I don't see them closing it. And Quest Red is higher rating than Travel Channel before it left Freeview, so why remove that? They aren't just going to do it because they are similar and Travel Channel being different would widen the genre choice, money will dictate that, and larger ratings probably mean the similar channels make more money for them.
Having said that I'd like Travel Channel to return to Freeview.