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Why no BBC +1 channels?

  • 30-06-2012 03:46PM
    #1
    paultf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 974 ✭✭✭


    Looking at the TV listings for freesat tonight and it would have been handy if BBC had +1 channels like ITV and C4.

    Why don't the BBC provide +1 channels? Is it solely down to cost?


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  • #2
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,486 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    paultf wrote: »
    Why don't the BBC provide +1 channels? Is it solely down to cost?
    Probably down to purely financial reasons as they don't have the benefit of advertising as ITV do for example.

    A lot of their programmes are repeated on the BBC2, 3 and 4 channels.


  • #3
    Wolves8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭Wolves8


    Because there are no adverts on BBC channels....


  • #4
    Stuck Cone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Stuck Cone


    because bbc iplayer


  • #5
    MarkK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭MarkK


    paultf wrote: »
    Why don't the BBC provide +1 channels?

    On Freeview, the BBC do not have the space to add +1 channels.

    The BBC is required to try to be "Platform Neutral", so it should try to provide the same service on Freeview, Freesat, Sky and Cable.

    Since they don't have space for +1s on Freeview, they can't have them on Satellite or Cable either. If they did, they would be short changing the license payers with Freeview.


  • #6
    Gerry Wicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    When you consider all the regional variations of BBC1 and 2, that would be an awful lot of extra costs to run.


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  • #7
    excollier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭excollier


    How did we ever stay alive without +1 channels, PVRs and multitudes of channels and repeats, life must have been really terrible in the old days.......


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