BBC Four & CBBC to close

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From Tim Davie's Speech:
"When it comes to network TV, we will reduce the volume of hours we commission a year by around 200. We’ll still offer thousands of originated hours and a very broad range, but fewer hours will mean we are not constantly thinning programme budgets.

We will focus our money where we are distinctive and more uniquely BBC. We will make tough choices about titles which may be performing on linear but are not doing enough to drive viewers to on-demand. A number of them will be cancelled this year."

It sounds like he’s killing the BBC from the inside here and a lot of PSB stuff could be getting axed. It don’t sound good for sport or live events then as that exactly what will do well on linear but not catch up. I wonder for the future of the BBC here.

Agree.  There is still a market for Event Television, which brings the BBC enormous ratings; indeed an Event Television programme on BBC One is currently the best rated programme of the year so far.

I get that the BBC needs to make iPlayer happen but there will always be a market for the collective experience where everybody watches together.  Whether that's Strictly, a major series finale, Eurovision, the big game, television is still a major vehicle for bringing people together - especially so in the last two years.

Davie is being very careless.