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BBC Trust suggests more should be shown after 7pm (September 2013)

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chris
Interesting news that the BBC Trust has suggested showing some children's programmes on BBC One and Two after 7pm - just as we've got rid of them!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10330942/BBC-should-show-childrens-programmes-after-7pm-Trust-recomends.html

Of course, the better alternative would be to find a way of extending CBBC's air time.
JA
JAS84
Can't they just get another transponder on each platform, rather than have CBBC and BBC Three share one as they do presently? BBC Three could do to extend it's hours too anyway.
LO
lobster
Do we really need to give our nations lard arse kids another excuse to sit inanimate in front of another screen?
BR
Brekkie
The BBC Trust has also recommended twice I think that BBC1 should restore some kind of Saturday morning show - but none the less Saturday Kitchen remains telling kids the best wine to nick to go with their lunch.
DV
DVB Cornwall
Maybe quoting the executive summary from the Trust website will help

Quote:
The Trust has also concluded that it would like to see the other BBC services across TV, radio and online do more to consider children as an audience for its mainstream output, and to continue to seek opportunities to include BBC Children's output as part of their own, such as the recent broadcast of CBBC's Wolfblood on BBC Three.


This to me isn't asking for swathes of airtime to be handed over, but asking the controllers of the other channels to consider rebroadcast of CBBC content on their services, when looking to fill slots in the early evening. In real terms the only slots open to such content are 7-8 pm on BBC TWO and 7-9 pm on BBC THREE. The impact, if any will be minimal on these services.

The Telegraph seems to be making more of this than it deserves.
David and bilky asko gave kudos
WP
WillPS
lobster posted:
Do we really need to give our nations lard arse kids another excuse to sit inanimate in front of another screen?

"Our nation's lard arse kids" have had access to 24 hour childrens television since the launch of digital, and can actually view whatever they want at any time now via iPlayer, Netflix, Sky Player and that's before we talk about proper new media.
CA
Cando
Brekkie posted:
The BBC Trust has also recommended twice I think that BBC1 should restore some kind of Saturday morning show - but none the less Saturday Kitchen remains telling kids the best wine to nick to go with their lunch.


No they didn't, their recommendation wasn't even directed to Saturday mornings and it definitely wasn't directed at BBC ONE.
GO
gottago
JAS84 posted:
Can't they just get another transponder on each platform, rather than have CBBC and BBC Three share one as they do presently? BBC Three could do to extend it's hours too anyway.


BBC Three certainly doesn't need to extend its hours. Aside from Free Speech they no longer commission anything new for pre 9pm and there's no value in more pre-watershed repeats. Really they could afford to lose an hour to CBBC until 8.
FL
flaziola
Incidentally BBC Three did a rerun of Series 1 of one of CBBC's top shows 'Wolfblood' showing two episodes a night every Monday to fill an hour between 7 and 8.
KE
kernow
DVB Cornwall posted:
In real terms the only slots open to such content are 7-8 pm on BBC TWO and 7-9 pm on BBC THREE. The impact, if any will be minimal on these services.

One slight issue with the 7-8pm BBC 2 weekday slot is that it's the slot which seems to be used most regularly for prime time regional variations by the nations.
GO
gottago
DVB Cornwall posted:
Maybe quoting the executive summary from the Trust website will help

Quote:
The Trust has also concluded that it would like to see the other BBC services across TV, radio and online do more to consider children as an audience for its mainstream output, and to continue to seek opportunities to include BBC Children's output as part of their own, such as the recent broadcast of CBBC's Wolfblood on BBC Three.


This to me isn't asking for swathes of airtime to be handed over, but asking the controllers of the other channels to consider rebroadcast of CBBC content on their services, when looking to fill slots in the early evening. In real terms the only slots open to such content are 7-8 pm on BBC TWO and 7-9 pm on BBC THREE. The impact, if any will be minimal on these services.

The Telegraph seems to be making more of this than it deserves.


BBC Daytime now commission for the 7-8pm slot on BBC2 so there's little chance of that being used considering they only managed to get rid of the kid's shows a year ago.
IS
Inspector Sands
JAS84 posted:
Can't they just get another transponder on each platform, rather than have CBBC and BBC Three share one as they do presently? BBC Three could do to extend it's hours too anyway.

'Transponders' are the devices on satellites, I think adding a couple of extra channels on the BBC's satellite space would be the easy bit. Having both the children's channels and BBC3/4 on air at the same time requires a bit more than that... effectively setting up a 5th and 6th BBC network. They're just not going to fit on terrestrial, when they did it with BBC3 for the Olympics it meant replacing BBC Parliament.

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