BBC Three Kaput

"Martin" wrote in message
news
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 22:41:46 +0100, "tim....."
wrote:



"Martin" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 18:03:46 +0100, "tim....."
wrote:



"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ...

BBC 1 plus 1?
Anyway, one can now see one of the reasons they wanted to cancel Sky at
night. They are running out of our dosh. Perhaps its time to get a new
model. Surely the BBCs job as a public service broadcaster is to cater for
things the commercial folk cannot as they cannot sell adverts in it. Then
if
any of the stuff gets popular, they should have a commercial wing that can
carry on making sid shows and put them out with adverts to help with
funding
the rest of the BBC.

That way surely eveyone wins. However that pre supposes that commercials
actually work. My guess is that now so many people are getting their
content
via other means which enables editing of the adverts, that commercial
funding is going to be a decreasing revenue.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

You obviously didn't see the report that I linked a week or so back

despite the trumpeted success of streamed media, 98.5% of TV is still
watched as "live" broadcasts.

Amongst the 1000 households sampled.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't know how big the sample that they use is. But I'm sure that they
can sanity check the iPlayer figure by looking at their server stats

1,000 was the number quoted.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

According to the BARB website they sample 5,000 homes (which is not just
5,000 people)

tim


--

Martin in Zuid Holland

On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:53:32 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

On 05/03/2014 15:49, charles wrote:
In article , Mark Carver

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.

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

BBC One +1 AIUI.

On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:07:01 +0000, Michael Chare
[email protected] 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.

AIUI the purpose is to limit the increase that would otherwise have
been needed, so similar effect.

In article ,
tim..... writes:


"Mark" wrote in message ...

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 23:11:11 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
. ..
On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 18:00:09 +0100, "tim....."
wrote:
"David" wrote in message ...

When this BBC3 closes does that mean the children's programs
closed too on
the daytime that shares with it?

-----------------------------------------------------

seems not

(that's one of the reasons why the savings don't make sense)

It seems that the BBC3 bandwidth will be used for a BBC1+1 service. That
will presumably be during the evening rather than daytime.

Here is a bit more information from the horse's mouth (or nearby orifice):

================================================ ==
Why is the BBC closing a TV channel?

BBC News, UK, 6 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26469085

The BBC has announced sweeping changes to youth channel BBC Three, which
will disappear from the EPG in autumn 2015.

The channel will continue in a truncated form on the iPlayer, while some of
its more popular programmes could transfer to BBC One and Two.

Overall, its programme budget will be cut from the current £85 million to
£25 million.

The closure will make way for an extension of CBBC's
broadcasting hours, and
a BBC One + 1 channel.
[...]

================================================ ==

Who wants yet another +1 channel? (hint: not me)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Me, especially in the 8-10pm slots

I frequently get double and triple clashes in this time slot and have
to resolve them by shifting one of them - something that I currently
can't do if the clash is between 3 BBC channels

It's also useful if you intended to watch a programme, and only remember
when it's 45 minutes into its hour running time, as I've just managed to
do with the final part of "37 Days". There doesn't seem to be a TV
repeat within the next week, rather surprisingly. I can watch it on
iPlayer of course, but that's not my favourite way of watching TV.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

"Martin" wrote in message
...

On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:07:12 +0100, "tim....."
wrote:


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

According to the BARB website they sample 5,000 homes (which is not just
5,000 people)

I didn't say that the 98.5% figure came from Barb. Did it?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

It's not actually clear if that one did. But such figures usually do.

Here's the report again:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26221364
--

Martin in Zuid Holland

On 09/03/2014 19:08, tim..... wrote:


"Martin" wrote in message
...

On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:07:12 +0100, "tim....."
wrote:


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------


According to the BARB website they sample 5,000 homes (which is not just
5,000 people)

I didn't say that the 98.5% figure came from Barb. Did it?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

It's not actually clear if that one did. But such figures usually do.

Here's the report again:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26221364

It looks like the Thinkbox report for TVlicensing.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/resourc...escope2014.pdf

Linked from:
http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...lass=0&id=5086
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/m...e-tech-NEWS87/

2132 adults were surveyed (last page of report)

Richard