Just Sharing This BBC Four and CBBC to go online only, BBC World News to merge

[astra19]

BBC to move CBBC and BBC Four online

Director-general Tim Davie says the move is part of a raft of cost-saving measures.

www.bbc.co.uk

Part of cost cuts:
BBC Four and CBBC to move to online only
BBC World News and BBC News to merge altogether
BBC Radio 4 Extra to go online only
Oxford and Cambridge will lose their independent news services

 

[Analoguesat]

Blimey WHY are they repeating the mistake they made with BBC3? Unless its a backdoor way to close BBC4 completely once the viewing figures fall off a cliff??

 

[astra19]

I wonder if it’s just a play to try to renegotiate funding. BBC News and World merging makes sense since it’s basically already true, so I can’t really see how it would save that much.

 

[PaulR]

The target demographic for BBC4 are so much more unlikely to even know how to access the channel online than the BBC3 demographic. It's designed to deliver the result that someone, somewhere wants.

 

[Analoguesat]

There were rumours services were to close - this is a sure fire way of ensuring the audience figures for BBC4 are so awful closure is inevitable. We watch BBC4 lots (recorded on the Sky box) - and as soon as it goes online we wont be watching it any more. We dont see any need for any of our AV kit to be connected to the internet.

 

[Lazarus]

BBC 4 is our most watched channel.

 

[astra19]

It’s annoying because it’s just optics. The costs to distribute BBC Four must be really low.
They should never have been made to pay for BBC World Service when the UK government are the ones that benefit.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Some muppet on BBC News talking about the move to digital.....

BBC - Digital - Homepage

Find out how to receive the BBC's digital television and radio channels, and what the digital television switchover means for you.

www.bbc.co.uk

The supposed 'upgrade' is not to be delivered for another three years, plenty of time for Capita/TVLicensing to screw them over before moving onto better pickings.

 

[ozumo]

BBC News and BBC World to merge into one BBC News channel, launches April 2023.

"BBC management has gone out of the way not to describe the changes as a merger of the two existing news channels"

April 2023 launch for new BBC News TV channel > RXTV info

The BBC is launching the channel to replace the existing UK-facing BBC News Channel and the BBC World News channel.

rxtvinfo.com

Sounds great

 

[william-1]

Looks like a recipe for disaster

 

[Channel Hopper]

I suspect there will be plenty of knives in backs as the 'top drawer' presenters jostle for the remaining slots.

 

[ozumo]

As pointed out by a516digital on Twitter the retained presenters for the 'new' BBC News channel just happen to be those who currently front the BBC World 11am to 10pm schedules.

 https://twitter.com/a516digital/status/1621299422372954112

BBC announces 'new' News Channel presenters > RXTV info

News channel shake-up sees current World News presenters take key slots on the channel with viewer favourites from the current UK focused service shunted.

rxtvinfo.com

 

[Analoguesat]

As pointed out by a516digital on Twitter the retained presenters for the 'new' BBC News channel just happen to be those who currently front the BBC World daytime schedules.

 https://twitter.com/a516digital/status/1621299422372954112

Quite a few of the presenters have quit rather than go through the redeploy process

 

[ozumo]

Pretty much confirms the BBC News channel is being scrapped and replaced by a BBC World simulcast with UK content during the adverts, plus existing BBC1/2 news shows.