BBC One to launch +1 channel

BBC Director General Tony Hall announced today that Britain's most-watched channel will launch a BBC One +1 channel.

Speaking today, he said: “Any plan for channels starts with BBC One. Above all, BBC One needs to be on top form. It has to be the nation’s favourite channel, but also its bravest. We’ll also look to launch a BBC One +1 channel, too – it’s what audiences expect, especially younger ones, and it means people can get more of what they’ve already paid for.”

Charlotte Moore, Controller of BBC One, adds: "This is brilliant news for BBC One viewers, it means the content we pay for delivers even more value for audiences. In a world of increased choice, +1 will enable licence fee payers to have even more access to our broad range of programmes every day."

BBC One already reaches 80 per cent of the population on average per week, by far the biggest reach of any other channel. The backwards programme guide on YouView is already helping audiences fit more of the best content into their busy lives. The extras audiences get through the red button and our new connected red button makes pressing red even better, bringing TV, radio and online seamlessly together on the living room TV, in the simplest way possible. And with plans to launch on a number of new platforms, including FreeView, Freesat and YouView, in the next 12 months - this is what channels will feel like, in the future.

Further details on when this new service will launch and how it will be made available to licence fee payers will be confirmed in due course.
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I'm still confused about this: is it a time-shifted channel, or a channel that offers extra content for BBC One programmes?

Its a timeshifted channel

like any other +1 channel eastenders at 730pm now 830pm on +1 also get the usual card holder with " the programme previously shown on bbc one can't be shown again on +1 " well something like that.

The talk about giving the License Fee payer more, is not a reference to extra content, but allowing viewers to watch a show later, they may have missed whilst watching a different show on another channel.

Got it - I understand how it was phrased now.

With all of this talk of time-shifted/online content, the need for repeats is gradually diminishing. I know lots of people criticise the BBC for lots of repeats, so it seems that maybe repeating things is less worth it. However, loads of older people don't necessarily have Internet access, so it's swings and roundabouts.

Does this mean the end for BBC Three repeats of EastEnders at 10pm?

As for the rest of today's announcements, I say hallelujah! Really great stuff unveiled today.

Well any specials at 9pm on BBC One will make BBC Three push their episode timeslot back rather than stop repeating it.

I think will be good for the Saturday Noght ratings as most viewers who watch both shows xfactor & strictly would have to watch BBC One then ITV+1. Now they may decide different with this option.

Also I wonder if Breakfast will get the same viewer messages as Daybreak with the clock being wrong?

Definitely, and with viewing figures too, it will be an equal playing field with ITV and ITV+1 being integrated into one viewing figure.

I can't imagine this will take much time to set up so we should see it launch soon. The new wave of HD channels hasn't been discussed much - are they still happening at the end of this year, or when?

I'm disappointed that the BBC has chosen to launch an unneeded +1 version of BBC One. It's bad enough that other channels chose to have +1 timeshift channels, but with the high availability of DVR devices, on demand catch-up services like iPlayer, (and various somewhat less legal methods to watch shows you've missed) +1 channels are effectively surplus to requirements. A waste of broadcast space, especially on the limited bandwidth of DTT.

Will this service be the national version of BBC One or are they going to re broadcast all the nations and regions?

Yes, screw everyone who doesn't have a DVR or forgets to set it.

If they were unnecessary all the other networks would have gotten rid of them years ago.

Or look at it the other way, the absence of +1 versions of some channels might drive the sale of PVRs

Anyway, I don't give a monkeys what the great unwashed do, I *never* watch anything on a commercial channel,
without buffering it through a PVR with enough delay, that I can still skip the final ad break, and for that matter
90% of Beeb viewing is normally delayed by anything from 5 mins to a year !