BBC3 will cease to exist as a television channel in March after the BBC Trust formally approved plans to close it. No new programming will air on the channel from the end of January, when the station effectively becomes a promotional tool for the online...
Read moreBBC3 is now virtually certain to close as a broadcast channel in January next year after the BBC Trust today gave provisional approval to the plans. The Corporation’s regulator said that the bid by BBC management to make the youth channel an online-only...
Read morePlans to move BBC3 online have been pushed back until 2016 because the consultation process is taking longer than anticipated. An interim decision on the future of the channel was expected as early as this month according to optimistic internal BBC assessments,...
Read moreA modestly sized but passionate group of around 50 protestors gathered outside the BBC’s New Broadcasting House building today to voice their objections to the proposed move of BBC3 online. The crowd sang songs and marched from the building to the BBC...
Read morePeter Kosminsky, the director of BBC2’s lavish adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall books, has delivered an impassioned defence of the BBC. Speaking on the same day that the Corporation set out its plans for moving BBC3 online – a decision which the...
Read moreThe BBC Trust's new Chair Rona Fairhead has said that BBC3's move online is "in and of itself good", although the Trust has yet to hear detailed proposals about how the channel's closure and move online will be accomplished. The BBC first announced plans...
Read moreBBC3 is to become an online-only service, closing down as a broadcast channel in autumn 2015, under plans set out today by BBC director general Tony Hall. The move will free up over £50 million from BBC3's programme-making budget, providing a cash injection...
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