BBC Three Kaput

On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:39:21 -0000, Martin wrote:

On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:26:45 -0000, "JohnT" wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26447089

Where does the rest of the £4 billion go?

Paying off staff maybe?

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On 05/03/2014 14:26, JohnT wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26447089


If they are going to stop transmitting the programme in a manner that I
can receive it, I think it only reasonable that they reduce the licence fee.


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On 05/03/2014 15:28, Martin wrote:

If the BBC is wanting to save money they should take a good look at the service
BBC News provides. Perhaps they could get it back to the standard that it had 20
or 30 years ago, when it was the envy of the world.

I generally prefer Sky News. The presenters seem more authoritative,
with gravitas. By contrast the BBC News readers seem to be anonymous
staff reporters, without character. the overall flavour is pale and
uninteresting.

On 05/03/2014 16:04, Martin wrote:

Yes, I wonder what the freed up bandwidth will be used for, they must
have some plan for it already ?

More Sky channels?

No, we need more shopping channels.

On 05/03/2014 14:26, JohnT wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26447089


Not that much of a loss, to my mind. There's very little that I watch,
if anything, on BBC3 now -- how many more times can they re-run old
Family Guy episodes?

If the BBC wants to save money then getting rid of BBC3 to move it
online is OK with me, but they could also scrub BBC News and BBC
Parliament whilst they're at it. To my mind, BBC News was only ever a
knee jerk reaction to Sky News anyway.

What would **** me off is if BBC4 gets the chop. I really value the
foreign language programmes that the channel frequently airs. If it gets
merged with BBC2, as has also been suggested, then I suspect that all of
that 'innovation' will be lost.

With any luck, BBC3/3HD will go online only and BBC4HD can take its
place, to get round all of this messing around with BBC4HD on Freeview
now, using out of group frequencies to transmit it -- take Emley Moor,
for example. The main transmitter site is Group B, so the powers that be
stuck BBC4HD on a Group A channel.

I guess that we'll have to see I suppose. One thing's for sure -- we
licence payers won't get much of a say about it.


Clem

On 05/03/2014 18:07, Michael Chare wrote:
On 05/03/2014 14:26, JohnT wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26447089


If they are going to stop transmitting the programme in a manner that I can
receive it, I think it only reasonable that they reduce the licence fee.


That would mean that when the council reduce rubbish collections they would
also reduce your council tax*


* Don't hold your breath for either event...

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On 05/03/2014 15:32, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:07:57 +0000, Mark Carver


Hopefully BBC 4 HD will now be promoted to PSB 3 (to be available for
all of the UK)

I hadn't realised that BBC4 HD isn't available for all of the UK. Do
you mean via Freeview?

Yus, it's only available on COM 7 which is still being rolled out, but
even when it has been (by June this year) it'll only be 30 transmitter
sites (about 70% population coverage)

Do you think they will renumber the channels or is the next step to
merge BBC 2 and BBC4?

Dunno, to be honest I'm surprised by this move (and I speak as someone
who never watches BBC 3) but I suspect this could all be a publicity
stunt to promote the channel, already there are 'save BBC 3 campaigns' on
Twitter etc. Remember when they attempted to close 6-Music Radio a couple
of years ago, big fuss, big increase in listeners, and it's still there,
after the BBC Truss saved it.


and, in any case, the main cost is making the programmes. Switching off
the Freeview version is only going to save peanuts.

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I thought that as well

Can't see that saving on broadcast costs is going to achieve anything
meaningful

tim..... wrote:

and, in any case, the main cost is making the programmes. Switching off
the Freeview version is only going to save peanuts.

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I thought that as well

Can't see that saving on broadcast costs is going to achieve anything
meaningful

The more you think about it, the more the logic is flawed.

Transmission costs on DTT and D-Sat won't be 'saved' as such, all it
will do is release bandwidth on PSB 1 and PSB 3 (and the same on whatever
the SD and HD satellite transponders are).

Perhaps they want to make space for BBC 1+1 which was promised a while ago,
without any clear idea of where it would go ?

I mentioned BBC 3's proposed broadcast demise to our 23 year old lad over tea
this evening. He was totally ambivalent, told me the programmes on there
were quote; 'all crap' and didn't watch it, apparently none of his friends do
either. He consumes gazzoodles of GBs watching Netflix, so perhaps the Beeb
have the right idea about 'internet' delivery, but not how to appeal to young
adults.

YMMV

Anyway, if they don't geolock the iplayer version of BBC 3, they could
suddenly win back the millions of continental Europe ex pats who lost BBC TV
last month thanks to Astra's new bird :-) Beggers can't be choosers !


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On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:28:36 +0100, Martin wrote:

The Online DM has the best photos and is the first with breaking news, even if
it is often a distorted version of reality.

Yes, it's a sort of fractal approach - present a very low quality
approximate version of events at first, then fill in the details
later, or wait for others to do so. We get there in the end.

Rod.

"JohnT" wrote in message
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26447089

An interesting decision. If any channel was to bite the dust, I'd have
expected it to be BBC Four. Thankfully BBC have made the right decision: BBC
Four has programmes I watch; BBC Three has none. I wonder what will occupy
Three's space in the DVB-T and DVB-S multiplexes.