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BBC 3 Confirmed To Close Early 2016

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    #32
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    icdg wrote: »
    Utterly daft to give this channel a new look six weeks before it closes, especially when BBC One hasn't seen a revamp in nearly a decade and BBC Two is using its 1990s idents.

    I think they are keeping the brand

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EySLuYWTy0


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    #33
    JDxtra
    Registered Users Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    I know some logos can take a while to grow on you, but that is pure ridiculous.

    Also agree that it's a terrible time to be changing it.


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    #34
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,730 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    icdg wrote: »
    Utterly daft to give this channel a new look six weeks before it closes, especially when BBC One hasn't seen a revamp in nearly a decade and BBC Two is using its 1990s idents.

    The brand continues online. Only the television channel is closing.


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    #35
    Elmo
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    JDxtra wrote: »
    I know some logos can take a while to grow on you, but that is pure ridiculous.

    Also agree that it's a terrible time to be changing it.

    Also it is still BBC THREE rather than BBC ||!


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    #36
    patrickmooney
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    It's shifting to online right? Does anyone know if they'll have a linear online stream akin to watching the channel live or will it be more netflix style with programming being made available at certain times/dates.

    If its to have a linear stream, is there anything stopping the likes of Virgin and Sky to take that feed and broadcast it?


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    #37
    lertsnim
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    It won't be a linear channel.


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    #38
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    No, it's not continuing as a linear scheduled service. The brand will continue only in the form of an area on iPlayer and a "BBC Three on BBC One/Two" type late night slot. Yet they have developed a full new on air identity for it, even though it won't be on air any more after February.


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    #39
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    It's sad to see the conservative government in Britain slowly dismantling the BBC :(


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    #40
    ftakeith
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ftakeith


    irishfeen wrote: »
    It's sad to see the conservative government in Britain slowly dismantling the BBC :(

    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/30/bbc-freedoms-and-the-tv-licence-fee-deal

    bbc will be fine


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    #41
    dublinman1990
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    I suppose with the move onto the BBCiPlayer; it will be geo-locked to UK licence fee payers only?

    I watch a lot of the BBC Three programmes nearly every night of the week including FG and AD. I will miss it when it goes off air on linear TV.


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    #42
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    I suppose with the move onto the BBCiPlayer; it will be geo-locked to UK licence fee payers only?

    I watch a lot of the BBC Three programmes nearly every night of the week including FG and AD. I will miss it when it goes off air on linear TV.

    3e ... I know ads for lovely girls


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    #43
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,730 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    I suppose with the move onto the BBCiPlayer; it will be geo-locked to UK licence fee payers only?

    Of course but to the UK only. They do ask if you are a licence fee holder but it is a simple Yes or No answer. No proof required.


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    #44
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Family Guy and American Dad aren't really an issue - 3e, Fox, ITV2, and (for a while) BBC Two will be continuing to screen them.


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    #45
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    icdg wrote: »
    Family Guy and American Dad aren't really an issue - 3e, Fox, ITV2, and (for a while) BBC Two will be continuing to screen them.
    The ads will be a kick in the balls though :(


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    #46
    Rick_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭Rick_


    And lack of them being available HD FTA, which some people don't see as a big issue for cartoons that essentially don't benefit that much from a HD showing, but it is still nice to see them that way - especially when the SD channels are compressed so much everything looks a soft, blurry mess.


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    #47
    Stinicker
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    irishfeen wrote: »
    It's sad to see the conservative government in Britain slowly dismantling the BBC :(

    Considering the way the BBC is a leftwing mouthpiece I really don't blame them. The BBC is arguably anti-British.


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    #48
    Elmo
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    Stinicker wrote: »
    Considering the way the BBC is a leftwing mouthpiece I really don't blame them. The BBC is arguably anti-British.

    Tell many Scottish how left leaning/anti-British they are. BBC Bias/Balance maybe?


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    #49
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    BBC Three anyone?


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    #50
    ftakeith
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ftakeith


    icdg wrote: »
    BBC Three anyone?

    I took BBC3 from my favourites in sep 2015


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    #51
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    icdg wrote: »
    BBC Three anyone?

    No it goes off air soon ;)


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    #52
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Ftakeith, you're again sailing close to the wind here and on the SkyQ thread


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    #53
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Looks like Watch is rebranding is taking some of BBC three's content, including same day repeats of EastEnders

    Watch replaced by W


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    AwaitYourReply
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    Elmo wrote: »
    Looks like Watch is rebranding is taking some of BBC three's content, including same day repeats of EastEnders

    Watch replaced by W

    I was reading this over the weekend and I briefly thought that the UKTV station: WATCH (or it's latest rebranded channel name: "W") was gonna show repeats of BBC soap EastEnders and I thought maybe be a good move until I later realized that they were referring to same day repeats rather than legacy material from it's earlier days back in the mid 1980s.

    I really wonder in an age of BBC iPlayer, YouTube and other Internet streaming options whether there really is a sufficient demand for same day repeats of EastEnders on an "encrypted" channel that has been struggling to attract new viewers for quite some time. Perhaps one of the other Free-To-Air UKTV channels like Drama should have gone for it but I wonder how it would work for WATCH / W going forward?


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