Where should the BBC cut costs?

It's been discussed that instead of the BBC cutting costs in news and documentaries, they should just axe BBC3 or BBC4

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2157475,00.html

What do people think of this idea?

You can't axe BBC4 because their programmes are too good for anywhere else. Similarly, you can't axe BBC3 because their crap is too bad for anywhere else.

It's a hard one to decide really. I really like BBC Four for example, but even i know that it's hardly a channel for the mainstream market. But then that is the whole idea of the BBC in my opinion, to show content that wouldn't normally be commercially viable. Of all the channels I think BBC Three makes the least sense. I mean BBC Two was supposed to be the channel which took all the risks, but now BBC Three does that with constant repeats of Two Pints pushed into the works. I think BBC Threes content could easily move to BBC Two and then they could shut down BBC Three.

Moving on from TV, surely Radio 3 can go.

Well not really as there would have to cut the kids channel aswell,

but Killing of bbc3 and then moving most of the cbeebies? to the

CBBC channel 6am - 7pm
bbc4 7pm - 2am

( with class tv 9am - 11am, then cbeebies 11am - 3pm)

I agree killing off bbc3

They could close the Bristol Centre completely, sack the entire Points West team and merge the West and South-West regions.

That would save a shilling or three.

At first I was afraid, I was ... I mean, when I first read this I thought "you can't kill off Three" ... but then I realised "would you actually notice??". After all apart from endless repeats of Little Britain, Two Pints and Top Gear, what exactly is BBC Three for?

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Making sure BBC Four's on a higher numbered channel?

what about the kids channel, do we really need to spend money on a buying space on sky and freeview?

They shouldn't cut costs in any department - after all we won't see a change in the ever increasing price of the TV Licence.

BBC One and Two should continue to receive the highest level of funding: BBC One should be the flagship channel of the corporation, with BBC Two providing a genuine alternative - that includes documentaries, the arts, sports coverage and comedy.

BBC Three isn't working. Any quality programming which can be harvested from it should be shown on BBC One or Two. Instead, the channel should become the home of repeats: all the benefits of a timeshift channel, but with a sensible, varied schedule of the best bits from BBC One and Two: a sort of "BBC Choice", if you will.

BBC Four should be kept at all costs: and it should be showing more live music like the Proms (why isn't every single Prom on BBC Four?), more documentaries like Storyville, more art-house films, more foreign-language series like Spiral... if people complain it is elitist, good. I would far rather have a channel like that than another ITV2.

If BBC Three gets the chop, would it mean BBC Four would have to be renamed? Since it would mess up the number order of the channels