All BBC articles – Page 499
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NewsInfographic: BBC3 budget breakdown
BBC3’s projected 2015/6 budget was £75m – which will now be radically reallocated.
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NewsCohen begins BBC3 briefings
Danny Cohen has begun briefing BBC3’s key suppliers and talent about plans to take the service online, amid fears that the axe is hanging over many of the channel’s big brands.
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CommentSavage BBC3 cuts are hard to swallow
The channel’s move online decimates its original content budget, writes Chris Curtis
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CommentThis is a retreat, not a bold vision
The BBC has missed the chance to innovate, argues former iPlayer boss Anthony Rose
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CommentBranding is key to BBC3's future
The shop window is shutting, but BBC3’s strong brand will help it survive, says Thinkbox chair Tess Alps
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NewsCohen: BBC3 strategy is a risk
BBC director of television Danny Cohen has admitted that moving BBC3 online is a major risk and that cost savings have forced the corporation to make the move ahead of schedule.
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CommentBBC3: a catalyst for change?
This could be the moment when delivery of TV shows changes forever, says comedy writer Dave Cohen
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CommentThe BBC's online gamble
BBC3 might now be able to take more risks - and BBC4 has dodged a bullet, writes Pat Younge
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NewsTony Hall: email to staff
Click to read the director general’s email to staff about BBC3’s online move.
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NewsBBC3 budget cut in half by move online
BBC3’s programme budget will be cut in half, and £30m of it will be redirected into BBC1 drama, when the youth channel moves online in autumn 2015.
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NewsBBC2 goes back to school for student vet series
BBC2 has ordered a Vet School-style series following a group of students in their final year at the Royal Veterinary College.
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NewsBBC gets tough on diversity
The BBC is to ramp up the social profiling of its workforce and could introduce the ‘Rooney Rule’ into its recruitment processes under plans to radically boost diversity.
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NewsMoore eyes real-life stories for ‘provocative’ drama
BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore wants to tap into her factual roots to adapt real-life stories into “provocative” new dramas for the channel.
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CommentThe revolution will not be televised
BBC3’s imminent move reveals DG is not afraid to make tough calls
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NewsAcorn mulls ‘Sherlock’ take on Christie tales
Hercule Poirot could become a hacker or Jane Marple swap her tweed coat for a onesie after Acorn Productions revealed plans to contemporise the Agatha Christie franchise.
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NewsBBC3 on the brink of online move
The BBC wants to change BBC3 from a traditional TV channel to an online-only brand that will super-charge the iPlayer.
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CommentBBC3: coming out of the shadows
Could BBC3 regain its purpose and restore its reputation by going online, wonders Stephen Arnell
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NewsBBC2 to host Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage debate
BBC2 is to host a live political debate between Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP’s Nigel Farage over the forthcoming European elections.
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NewsBBC3 threat: the industry responds
Fears for the future of BBC3 have sparked a Twitter campaign to save the channel.
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NewsBBC eyes online-only future for BBC3
The BBC is drawing up plans to turn BBC3 into an online-only channel, Broadcast can reveal.