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Old 21-05-2020, 20:33   #1324
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Re: Linear is old tech - on demand is the future
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
My post 1318 includes your caveat. So what's your point?
My point is that you wilfully misrepresent it. As in post 1314, noted by Hugh in post 1315.

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As far as I am aware, BBC3 Online and BBC4 content belongs to the BBC.

So, according to your own assessment, the Beeb should be able to reinstate BBC3 without very much cost at all.

The fact that the Beeb is having to balance whether to replace BBC4 with BBC 3 seems to prove you wrong. If it was so inexpensive to run a channel (ahem, with their own content) why the agonising?
BBC 4 has an annual budget of £44m. They want to invest in content for BBC 3 - doubling investment to £80m.

So the choice that the BBC are toiling over is, unsurprisingly, much more complex than the simplistic way you portrayed it in your post. Some credible links too:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...nder-proposals

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...losure-rumours

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Really? So why the agonising over how to fund it, then?

Nothing like reality to demolish a poorly thought out argument.
I couldn't have put that better myself.
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