BBC to end linear versions of CBBC and BBC Four

[Bob Jersey]

Just last month Tim Davie stopped short of cutting whole channels, but " said there was a robust plan in place to move these channels to the BBC iPlayer, with an ambition to reach 75% of BBC viewers through iPlayer each week. "

https://deadline.com/2022/05/bbc-close-cbbc-bbc-four-linear-channels-1000-redundancies-expected-public-broadcaster-next-few-years-1235033365/ (link)

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[Mark Jeffries]

Not to mention making the domestic BBC News and the overseas BBC World News (what we see on cable in the U.S.) one channel (which they are in UK overnight and U.S. evenings, not to mention being simulcast on BBC One--is "Breakfast" still simulcast on News and One?) and move the beloved Radio 4 (which in the U.S. would be considered the equivalent of an NPR news-talk station) to online. Considering that R4's audience is, uh, older, I don't see them wanting to say in the car "Alexa, play the 'Today' programme."

And it should be pointed out that BBC Four is the "cultural" channel and that the much-hated by the chattering classes "yoof" channel BBC Three, which only returned from online earlier this year, would stay on the digital TVs and Freeview boxes in the UK.  And it seems to indicate that the older-skewing CBBC audience watches more online than the pre-school Cbeebies audience (and that channel probably serves as a babysitter for a lot of parents).

Adam, considering that a show moving from BBC Two to BBC One was once considered the symbol of mass appeal, have any shows other than the difficult game show "Only Connect" moved from Three or Four to Two or even One?

Mark Jeffries
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[Brad Beam]

“Fleabag” went from Three to One for its second series although, per Wiki, by that time Three was concurrently streaming it.

[Mark Jeffries]

And it turns out "The Thick of It" went from Four to Two for its third season.

Turns out that it's Radio 4 Extra, the DAB band drama/comedy library station, that's moving to streaming.  The mainline Radio 4 is going to close up its long wave frequency as soon as it can find new homes for the long wave-only programming (church services, coverage of those marathon cricket matches, some broadcasts of the beloved shipping forecast, although there would be a lot of complaints if the nightly 12:50 a.m. broadcasts on the mainline R4 are even taken off, complete with the lead-in music of that stock library piece "Sailing By").  I suspect the cricket would go to the DAB station Five Live Sports Extra.

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[John Edwards]

The cricket has been on Radio Five Live Sports Extra since at least 2005, in addition to Radio 4 Long Wave. 

During the cricket, they still announce cutaways for the Shipping Forecast (much to the amusement of the foreign commentators), but only Radio 4 LW actually cuts away. 

John 

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