I honestly don’t get this…they brought BBC 3 back on air and they close BBC4…?
Pay your licence fee.
Insanity. 2 of the highest value offerings.
Such a shame about BBC 4. It’s where I see tje most value from my license fee, even in it’s delapidated state.
What a shame, CBBC was a big part of my childhood and offers some really high quality programming for kids.
Honestly ridiculous. The adverts on kids TV channels are insane, and a bad influence.
And those YouTube channels that appeal to kids. Don’t get me started on those.
Just don’t see a positive. Having good programming, with a good message, ad free, was a massive help to me as a kid.
Congratulations, culture war fans. Your acts of cultural vandalism are nearly complete.
I’m really angry about this. We are a massive fan of cbeebies and was looking forward to moving on to cbbc with my kids. The lack of adverts is really important to me, it really shocked me when I let my (then) 2 year old watch another channel with adverts occasionally and when I asked him what he wanted for breakfast he asked for cocopops (we have never ever had them or spoken about them) and then got upset when we didn’t have any. Since then we’ve moved straight back to cbeebies – other channels are full of brain rot 🙁
CBBC going is just sad all round. I used to enjoy watching bits of that with my nephews when the weather was too gnarly to go anywhere. I mean.. in the night garden is like a fever dream
And this is why the TV licence should stay or be integrated into general taxation.
If the TV licence ends, and bbc needs paid ads to survive the UK will be one of the only countries in the world without a public broadcaster
Really sad, these fuckers won’t be happy until they’ve ransacked everything good.
CBBC and CBeebies are brilliant. Honestly a shame. Much better than the crap kids can be exposed to on YouTube.
I feel like this is maybe a ballsy move to either kill the BBC or to show people what will be missed without the BBC.
The channels are going to close *on TV* – they’re not disappearing completely. The article’s full of comments about moving to a “digital-first BBC”.
Honestly, as much as I hate that the Beeb is so underfunded that it has to stoop to this, how many kids are watching normal telly these days? Online services like Netflix, YouTube – or indeed **iPlayer** – are surely much more prominent.
If the BBC can adapt CBBC into its own online service, keeping the lack of adverts and avoiding all the incredibly questionable shit on YouTube that gets aimed at kids, then that’s honestly a really good thing. It’s just a shame it has to come at the cost of the TV channel.
What the hell!? I feel like old people and kids are the 2 biggest consumers of television.
Bringing back BBC3 and binning BBC4. Getting rid of one of the only terrestrial TV kids channels without adverts.
Another nail in the coffin of promoting any kind of critical thinking on state media.
>CBBC has delighted children since its inception in 1985 as a free-to-air TV channel.
erm, what? CBBC only became its own channel in like 2003?
Which, may I add, was a backwards step.
Much better when it was CBBC on BBC1 after school. I swear the whole country used to watch Newsround, Blue Peter etc… followed by Neighbours
Reading this, it looks like CBBC isn’t actually closing, it just won’t be a linear television channel anymore.
It doesn’t seem likely that the BBC is going to stop making programming for school age children.
Surely CBBC is just to piss off voters who in turn will force the politicians to do something on funding.
Purely and simply a political manoeuvre. They used BBC Three to try and kick start public outcry. It got reversed but didn’t work. So now they are targeting those stations which might encourage a proper objection. The (relatively ) elderly and parents.
One of the main reasons I see for people wanting the BBC is because they do kids channels without any adverts.
So if you want to get rid of the BBC, the best thing to do is get rid of what people want from it
You just have to look at the CBBC output across the pandemic to see how stupid this is. CBBC and BBC4 are amazing examples of public service broadcasting.
And this is why “bUt I DoNt EvEn WaTcH BbC” doesn’t hold up as an argument. You’re not paying a Netflix subscription. You’re paying for a public service, that benefits other people. CBBC is about the best quality kids TV you’re going to get, and is now going to be unavailable for poorer kids whose parents are out in the sticks out simply can’t afford the broadband speed to stream.
Title is misleading, they’re not closing, they’re going to Iplayer only.
BBC4 has become an archive channel anyway. I see no issues with this.
As an actor on a CBBC show, I’m utterly outraged. Another Conservative ‘Starve the Beast’ plan in effect, and the BBC chooses to target children’s TV in a truly classist move instead of doing what it should be doing in the first place: fighting back against these assholes.
Not only does it go against their ‘Universal Service’ Remit, it stops children from being introduced to a wide variety of programming.
iPlayers recommended algorithm pales in comparison to Netflix’s (if it even exists), and I highly doubt kids are going to go out of their way to watch a new show if it’s not recommended to them.
Just a shocking move
Thank Aunty Nadine for telling the Beeb they can’t be funded by licence any more, without actually telling them how they CAN be funded.
Anyone remember Young Dracula, the demon headmaster etc. Those shows were great.
To bad young Dracula just suddenly stopped, I guess they didn’t know where to take the series.
This is pretty sad, I love CBBC for my toddler, it’s the only channel that doesn’t bombard kids with adverts and overstimulation. Also they have a great set of presenters and one of the few regular cast members that has downs, the representation of disabled children on CBBC is fantastic and it will be a shame to lose it
BBC 4 the only good channel they have.
Isnt this just a repeat of the cluster – fuck when they moved BBC3
What’s the bet that in 4/5 years, CBBC and BBC4 will be back on digital
I only watch freeview and bbc4 is the best channel by miles and miles. The music documentaries they show are excellent and I often watch them again when they’re repeated. They have great film noirs and other classic films quite often, and almost everything else on the channel is basically great. If it goes to igayer I won’t watch it because I’m not in the habit of doing that.
Looks like my TV habits will basically just be watching the films I’ve seen hundreds of times on itv4, 5action and classic movies, and occasionally filmfour when they decide to show something decent at about ten past midnight.
Well you freeze the licence fee income this is what you get so hardly surprising
Some of you never lived through the 90s and it shows
Not just BBC4 but BBC2 is suffering. There has been one episode of Horizon in 18 months that wasn’t about covid and it is yet another Micheal Mosley one. The flagship science show is sinking and it is just one example. When was the last time we saw a good new BBC comedy coming through?
Linear TV Isn’t going to be a thing for much longer. Kids can’t believe it when you tell them seeing the next episode you used to have to remember to be home and on that exact channel at the same time next week. Assuming they didn’t move it for a sporting event. You’d have to buy a magazine to check.
The only channel that doesn’t treat me like an idiot; and the only channel that didn’t treat my infant son like an idiot.
My mate works for CBBC and has for about 10 years. He absolutely loves his job. He won’t have any problems finding work somewhere else, but he will be very sad to no longer work for CBBC. He might continue to work there, given it’s still going to exist, just not as a TV channel – but you assume staff cutbacks would be made too.
Although he’s pretty high up, so maybe he’ll be OK.
And so it begins… The crushing of the BBC and all of their educational/children’s stuff that many of us were brought up with.
They were just normal men
Cultural vandals. Tim Davie won’t stop until all he’s in charge of is a fortnightly email service.
This government yet again doing one thing whilst saying another; i.e cutting back the world service, whilst trying to project we’re Global Britain. Pathetic.
They have no intention, aim or plan to improve this country only to asset strip it.
This is the direct result of government policy to starve the BBC of funding by freezing the licence fee. It’s another example of the Conservative Party’s vandalism of our country.
Cbbc has been a massive cultural force nearly eveyone who’s been born in the UK has watched it for hours on end even before it got its own deicaded channel when it had to share time with BBC 2 iirc
Radio 4 Extra as well. Which makes no sense as they’re playing the archives so hardly costs anything.
Genuinely this makes me feel a bit ill. Imagine telling this and everything else that’s happened, to a voter pre brexit. Would they still vote Tory?
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I honestly don’t get this…they brought BBC 3 back on air and they close BBC4…?
Pay your licence fee.
Insanity. 2 of the highest value offerings.
Such a shame about BBC 4. It’s where I see tje most value from my license fee, even in it’s delapidated state.
What a shame, CBBC was a big part of my childhood and offers some really high quality programming for kids.
Honestly ridiculous. The adverts on kids TV channels are insane, and a bad influence.
And those YouTube channels that appeal to kids. Don’t get me started on those.
Just don’t see a positive. Having good programming, with a good message, ad free, was a massive help to me as a kid.
Congratulations, culture war fans. Your acts of cultural vandalism are nearly complete.
I’m really angry about this. We are a massive fan of cbeebies and was looking forward to moving on to cbbc with my kids. The lack of adverts is really important to me, it really shocked me when I let my (then) 2 year old watch another channel with adverts occasionally and when I asked him what he wanted for breakfast he asked for cocopops (we have never ever had them or spoken about them) and then got upset when we didn’t have any. Since then we’ve moved straight back to cbeebies – other channels are full of brain rot 🙁
CBBC going is just sad all round. I used to enjoy watching bits of that with my nephews when the weather was too gnarly to go anywhere. I mean.. in the night garden is like a fever dream
And this is why the TV licence should stay or be integrated into general taxation.
If the TV licence ends, and bbc needs paid ads to survive the UK will be one of the only countries in the world without a public broadcaster
Really sad, these fuckers won’t be happy until they’ve ransacked everything good.
CBBC and CBeebies are brilliant. Honestly a shame. Much better than the crap kids can be exposed to on YouTube.
I feel like this is maybe a ballsy move to either kill the BBC or to show people what will be missed without the BBC.
The channels are going to close *on TV* – they’re not disappearing completely. The article’s full of comments about moving to a “digital-first BBC”.
Honestly, as much as I hate that the Beeb is so underfunded that it has to stoop to this, how many kids are watching normal telly these days? Online services like Netflix, YouTube – or indeed **iPlayer** – are surely much more prominent.
If the BBC can adapt CBBC into its own online service, keeping the lack of adverts and avoiding all the incredibly questionable shit on YouTube that gets aimed at kids, then that’s honestly a really good thing. It’s just a shame it has to come at the cost of the TV channel.
What the hell!? I feel like old people and kids are the 2 biggest consumers of television.
Bringing back BBC3 and binning BBC4. Getting rid of one of the only terrestrial TV kids channels without adverts.
Another nail in the coffin of promoting any kind of critical thinking on state media.
>CBBC has delighted children since its inception in 1985 as a free-to-air TV channel.
erm, what? CBBC only became its own channel in like 2003?
Which, may I add, was a backwards step.
Much better when it was CBBC on BBC1 after school. I swear the whole country used to watch Newsround, Blue Peter etc… followed by Neighbours
Reading this, it looks like CBBC isn’t actually closing, it just won’t be a linear television channel anymore.
It doesn’t seem likely that the BBC is going to stop making programming for school age children.
Surely CBBC is just to piss off voters who in turn will force the politicians to do something on funding.
Purely and simply a political manoeuvre. They used BBC Three to try and kick start public outcry. It got reversed but didn’t work. So now they are targeting those stations which might encourage a proper objection. The (relatively ) elderly and parents.
One of the main reasons I see for people wanting the BBC is because they do kids channels without any adverts.
So if you want to get rid of the BBC, the best thing to do is get rid of what people want from it
You just have to look at the CBBC output across the pandemic to see how stupid this is. CBBC and BBC4 are amazing examples of public service broadcasting.
And this is why “bUt I DoNt EvEn WaTcH BbC” doesn’t hold up as an argument. You’re not paying a Netflix subscription. You’re paying for a public service, that benefits other people. CBBC is about the best quality kids TV you’re going to get, and is now going to be unavailable for poorer kids whose parents are out in the sticks out simply can’t afford the broadband speed to stream.
Title is misleading, they’re not closing, they’re going to Iplayer only.
BBC4 has become an archive channel anyway. I see no issues with this.
As an actor on a CBBC show, I’m utterly outraged. Another Conservative ‘Starve the Beast’ plan in effect, and the BBC chooses to target children’s TV in a truly classist move instead of doing what it should be doing in the first place: fighting back against these assholes.
Not only does it go against their ‘Universal Service’ Remit, it stops children from being introduced to a wide variety of programming.
iPlayers recommended algorithm pales in comparison to Netflix’s (if it even exists), and I highly doubt kids are going to go out of their way to watch a new show if it’s not recommended to them.
Just a shocking move
Thank Aunty Nadine for telling the Beeb they can’t be funded by licence any more, without actually telling them how they CAN be funded.
Anyone remember Young Dracula, the demon headmaster etc. Those shows were great.
To bad young Dracula just suddenly stopped, I guess they didn’t know where to take the series.
This is pretty sad, I love CBBC for my toddler, it’s the only channel that doesn’t bombard kids with adverts and overstimulation. Also they have a great set of presenters and one of the few regular cast members that has downs, the representation of disabled children on CBBC is fantastic and it will be a shame to lose it
BBC 4 the only good channel they have.
Isnt this just a repeat of the cluster – fuck when they moved BBC3
What’s the bet that in 4/5 years, CBBC and BBC4 will be back on digital
I only watch freeview and bbc4 is the best channel by miles and miles. The music documentaries they show are excellent and I often watch them again when they’re repeated. They have great film noirs and other classic films quite often, and almost everything else on the channel is basically great. If it goes to igayer I won’t watch it because I’m not in the habit of doing that.
Looks like my TV habits will basically just be watching the films I’ve seen hundreds of times on itv4, 5action and classic movies, and occasionally filmfour when they decide to show something decent at about ten past midnight.
Well you freeze the licence fee income this is what you get so hardly surprising
Some of you never lived through the 90s and it shows
Not just BBC4 but BBC2 is suffering. There has been one episode of Horizon in 18 months that wasn’t about covid and it is yet another Micheal Mosley one. The flagship science show is sinking and it is just one example. When was the last time we saw a good new BBC comedy coming through?
Linear TV Isn’t going to be a thing for much longer. Kids can’t believe it when you tell them seeing the next episode you used to have to remember to be home and on that exact channel at the same time next week. Assuming they didn’t move it for a sporting event. You’d have to buy a magazine to check.
The only channel that doesn’t treat me like an idiot; and the only channel that didn’t treat my infant son like an idiot.
My mate works for CBBC and has for about 10 years. He absolutely loves his job. He won’t have any problems finding work somewhere else, but he will be very sad to no longer work for CBBC. He might continue to work there, given it’s still going to exist, just not as a TV channel – but you assume staff cutbacks would be made too.
Although he’s pretty high up, so maybe he’ll be OK.
And so it begins… The crushing of the BBC and all of their educational/children’s stuff that many of us were brought up with.
They were just normal men
Cultural vandals. Tim Davie won’t stop until all he’s in charge of is a fortnightly email service.
This government yet again doing one thing whilst saying another; i.e cutting back the world service, whilst trying to project we’re Global Britain. Pathetic.
They have no intention, aim or plan to improve this country only to asset strip it.
This is the direct result of government policy to starve the BBC of funding by freezing the licence fee. It’s another example of the Conservative Party’s vandalism of our country.
Cbbc has been a massive cultural force nearly eveyone who’s been born in the UK has watched it for hours on end even before it got its own deicaded channel when it had to share time with BBC 2 iirc
Radio 4 Extra as well. Which makes no sense as they’re playing the archives so hardly costs anything.
Genuinely this makes me feel a bit ill. Imagine telling this and everything else that’s happened, to a voter pre brexit. Would they still vote Tory?