BBC Expected To Announce TV & Radio Network Closures Next Week

The current structure and scale is obviously not viable.

I feel like for someone like me the BBC has been irrelevant for years now. I used to watch MOTD. Now watch football highlights on YT. Dont watch dance programmes, crime dramas, or soaps. Documentaries are better on YT these days. Used to watch old Top Gear but that went down the swanny. Maybe I’m a forty something dinosaur now lol. Still have to pay the TV licence though 🙄

Yikes. No ads please. For all that is sacred, please, no ads.

Slowly but surely being erased by the people who hate it and dont want it when its still the best broadcasting Corp in the world 

Ridiculous its under attack 

even though it makes me laugh, bbc pidgin needs to go

Id happily sub to a European YouTube, mail and social media alternative ran by the beeb

I saw an article saying ministers were talking about putting the cost of tv license on to our broadband bills. Prob click bait but they can get to fuck with that idea right now.

So short sighted to slowly strangle them of funding.

In spite of its flaws, it is a powerhouse for creative industries, developing new talent and sustaining independent production. So many jobs. So much global cultural influence.

On the one hand you have the right wing banging on about promoting culture and Britishness… Yet they want to destroy one of the main sources for positive modern British culture. Make it make sense.

I bet they’re going to axe the things they should be doing and preserve the things that we don’t need them to do

BBC 3 & 4 are a waste of time now and a money sink. They both used to be fantastic channels with the proper investment though.

The last few years have been absolutely awful for the BBC’s reputation. Greg Wallace, Scott Mills, Tim Westwood, Huw Edwards – and those are just the high profile cases. They had irreversible damage to deal with after Yew Tree and Saville and they clearly didn’t prioritise safe guarding after that. Horrendous to think that tax payers have funded the careers and later pensions of these horrible individuals.

Hopefully the dusty, desperado that is bbc one will get shut down and everything else, that has some cultural foresight (bbc radio 3, 4, 4
Extra, 6 music, bbc 2, bbc 4, regional etc), will be allowed to >!flourish? Way too many sports radio/dildo talk show stations.!<

The BBC doesn’t have enough content to compete against Netflix, Amazon, and so on. Convenient and on demand shows will always beat scheduled broadcasting in the world we live in, because we want things when we are able to consume them. I know not everybody feels this way, but a lot do.

The BBC has some great shows, it would be a shame to see them gutted but eventually I can binge them either on their social media pages, the shows own social media pages, or the DVD release. Yes, I know iPlayer exists, I’m referring to none BBC license methods.

BBC should be split as others have suggested. I’d hope that the children’s channels and educational content on their website get bundled into the tax paid public one, if it happened, and not the subscription model. BBCs children shows are 100% times better than Netflix and so on, as they are less stimulating and usually are about being good people. Feel like it should be free for the world.

Get rid of BBC TWO/BBC FOUR/BBC THREE channels, only have BBC One for entertainment/Docs, there isn’t enough content to warrant three channels now, and tbh never was, it was all repeats. Get rid of the pointless daytime TV stuff and broadcast BBC FOUR/TWO content then, people might then be more informed rather than what Celebrity x is doing this week. Most will watch what they want on iPlayer anyway, fixed broadcast times are old hat now with on-demand content readily available anytime.

There is so much replication of live paid presenters across the different radio stations like Jeremy Vine on Radio2, when you pretty much had the exact same thing running all morning with Nicky Campbell on Five Live, this is also the same across multiple BBC Radio outlets at different times of the day. Why there’s a phone-in on an easy listening music station at lunchtime still baffles me to this today.

The BBC RAJAR million figures are also very misleading, it only takes someone to listen for 5 minutes a week for it to register, and are not daily figures, so once you know that, it’s not so impressive at all.

Radio 1: 7.03m weekly – 267,000 at any given moment

Radio 2: 12.57m weekly – 792,000 at any given moment

Radio 3: 2.06m weekly – 96,000 at any given moment

Radio 4: 9.15m weekly – 643,000 at any given moment

5 Live: 5.36m weekly – 385,000 at any given moment

6 Music: 2.65m weekly – 183,000 at any given moment

Radio 1 & Radio 2, get rid of all the highly paid DJs to save £10 million a year, and should seriously consider just having automated playout, controversial, I know, but most of the commercial music radio stations pretty much do this now, and they do it for a very good reason.

I will give you an example, driving into town the other day, I tried to listen to music on Radio 1 and Radio 2 and there was only ‘chat’ for the entire time, 40 minutes across the two stations, now, I know what folk will say, ‘do you not like listening to talk on the radio, is it not interesting to you?’, yes it would be, normally, and absolutely have all the music docs, special shows etc. in the evenings, but during the day while most people are driving in their cars, you tune into a music radio station for…wait for it…music! and not listening to overly paid presenters talking shite all day about their weekend and when they went to see Ed Sheeran in Leeds.

Radio 3 & 6 Music need to to axed with 5 Live maybe only having recorded sports content when there is no live Sports/Football on to save on overly expensive live presenters.

Radio 4 is the jewel in the crown of BBC Radio (World Service aside, that is not necessarily for a domestic audience, which is also excellent) should remain, their presenters cost around £10 Million per annum but this is high quality news with well-informed presenters who are, in most cases journalists, and this should be the only place for phone-ins IMO.

The big thing is to bridge that gap between the 95% of people using the BBC and the 80% of people paying for it. Basically how do you stop the freeloaders (hint: they aren’t simply listening to the radio and Netflix manages to limit watching Netflix to subscribers)

That’s BBC 3 gone again… But not been the same since it was axed the first time

Lets hope they don’t pollaxe the medium-wave transmitters or we’re all screwed if the Interwebs go down for a long time.