19-01-2022, 20:45
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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Wanna see what will be on BBC Three in the launch week?]
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not unless they have got a stellar line up of US tv series which will draw a new audience to the channel. There is a reason why it was ditched.
Edit: Let's see............. Eating with my Ex and Lazy Susan on launch night. Can't wait
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19-01-2022, 21:11
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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not unless they have got a stellar line up of US tv series which will draw a new audience to the channel. There is a reason why it was ditched.
Edit: Let's see............. Eating with my Ex and Lazy Susan on launch night. Can't wait
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It was ditched because the BBC was required to make budget cuts and it decided it was worth experimenting with a streaming-only channel, given the 18-35 demographic it was aimed at.
It is being revived because it has attracted a mere fraction of its former audience as a streaming-only channel, while the late-night scheduled broadcast of its prime content on BBC1 has performed well.
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19-01-2022, 21:56
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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It was ditched because the BBC was required to make budget cuts and it decided it was worth experimenting with a streaming-only channel, given the 18-35 demographic it was aimed at.
It is being revived because it has attracted a mere fraction of its former audience as a streaming-only channel, while the late-night scheduled broadcast of its prime content on BBC1 has performed well.
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It will be closed down again courtesy of the Gov, cuts plus a lot of other BBC services. All to save 'Big Dog' !
It will backfire of course when the public realise the effect of cutting/removing the licence fee. No BBC3/4, no Wimbledon, no BBC proms, no Local Radio, no drama, no sport, no website , no iplayer...
Mind you if it means no Mrs Browns Boys or Strictly Come Prancing I might in favour , but they'll probably keep the cheap crap..
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20-01-2022, 00:22
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Re: BBC Three launch week
Make people put money where their mouth is then. If the BBC is so fantastic and offers great value for money then make it a paid for subscription service and let the people who want to watch it pay for it.
I think it is crap and always have done. I would sign up for one month a year for Wimbledon and that is it.
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20-01-2022, 02:19
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Re: BBC Three launch week
Wow, what a fantastic line up ....... not.
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20-01-2022, 04:24
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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It will be closed down again courtesy of the Gov, cuts plus a lot of other BBC services. All to save 'Big Dog' !
It will backfire of course when the public realise the effect of cutting/removing the licence fee. No BBC3/4, no Wimbledon, no BBC proms, no Local Radio, no drama, no sport, no website , no iplayer...
Mind you if it means no Mrs Browns Boys or Strictly Come Prancing I might in favour , but they'll probably keep the cheap crap..
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Funny isn't it, two of the only things this country is admired for anymore are the BBC and the NHS and the Tories are destroying both and yet they're the party of patriotism
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Make people put money where their mouth is then. If the BBC is so fantastic and offers great value for money then make it a paid for subscription service and let the people who want to watch it pay for it.
I think it is crap and always have done. I would sign up for one month a year for Wimbledon and that is it.
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I wouldn't sign up even for that and yet I have to subsidise everyone else's viewing pleasure, that said I did like BBC3 so typically the shut it! I'm interested in the new found concern the government has in the cost of living crisis and how they think saving £13 a month will help
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20-01-2022, 11:56
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
Make people put money where their mouth is then. If the BBC is so fantastic and offers great value for money then make it a paid for subscription service and let the people who want to watch it pay for it.
I think it is crap and always have done. I would sign up for one month a year for Wimbledon and that is it.
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A calculation I saw this week suggested that the BBC would have to attract 24 million subs to continue in anything like its current form, and that as well as being an impossible commercial feat would also be inequitable due to it running services that you can’t paywall (mainly radio). Clearly there are opportunities for it to sell niche content in that way, same as many other providers do, but it’s mass-audience public service offering, not so much.
I’ve said this a gazillion times before - no government can force a private business to choose its business model, certainly not one that manifestly can’t work. Whatever the long term funding settlement looks like, it won’t involve putting the main TV and radio stations behind a paywall.
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20-01-2022, 19:30
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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Wow, what a fantastic line up ....... not.
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Friday’s schedule looks so varied and imaginative…..
I’ll give it a miss.
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22-01-2022, 19:25
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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Friday’s schedule looks so varied and imaginative…..
I’ll give it a miss.
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I don't think you're the target demographic
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22-01-2022, 23:41
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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I don't think you're the target demographic
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Maybe not, but I can tell you I wouldn’t have touched any of those programmes when I was, either.
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22-01-2022, 23:57
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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Maybe not, but I can tell you I wouldn’t have touched any of those programmes when I was, either.
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tbf, then the programmes would have been in cuneiform…
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23-01-2022, 00:25
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Re: BBC Three launch week
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tbf, then the programmes would have been in cuneiform…
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Cheeky sod!
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