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The eight new services will be:
Television
BBC Four - the channel will feature culturally enriching programmes, tackling new and unfamiliar themes in factual programmes and documentaries. It will be diverse, outward looking and globally-minded, with world news every week night and the best of international cinema.
Two children's channels - providing a diverse mix of original, entertaining and educational UK productions in an advertising free environment. The channels will be subscription free, ensuring no child is information poor. The pre-school service will include live-action and puppet-based series and new landmark commissions alongside Tweenies and Teletubbies. The older children's service will include a live interactive magazine programme three times a day, online communities and clubs, a daily news service, drama and new series from the Blue Peter team.
Radio
Network X - championing and developing black music, nurturing new talent in UK garage, hip hop, rap, r&b, drum and bass and reggae, exploring relevant issues through news, discussion, documentary and social action.
Network Y - featuring artists and music that have shaped popular music and culture over the last 40 years, using the BBC's archive and supporting artists who no longer receive significant exposure on other stations.
Network Z - a speech-based service for adults and children, with comedy, drama and readings - archive and new.
Asian Network - currently only available in some parts of the country, the station will expand to a network service, offering a mixed genre schedule in both English and Asian languages, with a strong emphasis on news and current affairs.
Radio Five Live Sports Extra - this will not be a full time network and will only broadcast when there are live sporting events that cannot be broadcast elsewhere on BBC Radio.
Approval has also been given for the BBC World Service in English to be broadcast across the UK as part of the BBC's digital radio offer.
These new services join the existing portfolio of BBC ONE, BBC TWO, BBC News 24, BBC Parliament and BBC Radio 1 to 5 Live.
Last year's licence fee settlement gave the BBC increased funding specifically to develop interactive and digital services.
- Link to DCMS Press Release
- Full DCMS press release in PDF format
- More at BBC News Online
THE BBC'S NEW SERVICES AT A GLANCE
BBC FOUR
More depth, more range, more stimulus for the mind – BBC FOUR provides culturally enriching programming for people who want more from TV.
BBC FOUR gives access to big ideas and brilliant people. It tackles new and unfamiliar themes in factual programmes and documentaries. It's diverse, outward-looking and globally-minded, with world news every weeknight and the best of international cinema.
And it captures the excitement of the performing arts, from multicultural, roots and world music to classical, theatre and dance.
- The power of the spoken word - interviews and debates with thinkers whose insights are changing the world
- Programmes on arts, science, history and current affairs which enhance, but do not replace, what BBC ONE and BBC TWO do in these crucial genres
- Nightly international news programme
- Primetime screenings of the best of international cinema and documentaries
- Performance programmes, including extended coverage of the big festivals
- Majority of output original UK productions
No commissions have yet been made for BBC 4, but the kind of things you might see are: dramas such as Peter Brook's Hamlet, acclaimed international cinema like Together and Blackboards, documentaries such as Start-up.com, Robert Hughes on Goya and Beyond the Holocaust, and performers from Bjork to Angela Georghiu.
CHILDREN'S CHANNELS
As children explore the new world of digital and multi-channel television (already over 50% of all children live in multi-channel homes), families can be sure the BBC provides top-quality programming and an entertaining, educational and fun environment for children – whatever their age group.
The Children's Channels offer an advertising-free zone, dominated by original UK productions. They will provide educational journeys and interactive entertainment experiences unmatched by any other UK broadcaster. This, along with new, landmark commissions, will ensure children get more quality programmes out of digital tv.
The Pre-School Channel:
- New live-action and puppet series, transmitted alongside old favourites such as Tweenies and Playdays
- New landmark commissions beside the best of the BBC's pre-school animation series
- Music, movement, storytelling, natural history and simple science and puzzles encouraging learning through play
- Unique, interactive enhanced-text service for children and adults
The Older Children's Channel:
- Live magazine programme broadcast daily during the week
- Up to three daily weekday news bulletins from Newsround (with interactive online site) – a service offered by no other UK children's channel
Exciting new shows from the Blue Peter team
- Specially commissioned UK-based drama and entertainment
Online clubs and communities encouraging children to get interactive and contribute ideas, opinions and creative content
A proportion of the output will be schools programming, transmitted during the day in term time
DIGITAL RADIO SERVICES
From the best in UK Garage to top comedy from the nation's favourite performers and from sporting events to new Asian talent, the BBC's new national radio services will weave together music, news, sport, entertainment and education.
Available through all digital formats, including the internet, digital radio, digital satellite and cable, the five new services offer diversity, distinctiveness and more high-quality programming from BBC Radio's award-winning teams.
The names for three of the new radio services are yet to be announced.
Network X:
A frontrunner in cutting-edge black urban music and a national platform for the best in UK Garage, Hip-Hop, R ‘n' B, Drum & Bass and Reggae, X will nurture new UK talent in front of and behind the mic.
- Contemporary black music rooted in current British culture
- Live performances featuring new black artists and DJs
- Dedicated news team and innovative approaches to journalism
- Strong online presence
- Topical discussions on issues like setting up your own business or breaking into the music industry
Listen out for: talent like The Dreem Teem, Tim Westwood
Network Y:
40 years of great music from the BBC's archives, explored in depth, with wit and intelligence. Artists who've become icons will be complemented by seriously credible new talent, there will be room to explore the whole catalogue, not just the hits. Connections between past and future music teased out in the present.
- The richest resource of the history and development of popular music
- Classic session recordings and new artists live in concert
- Respected expert presenters joined by new voices
- News and documentary reflecting the interplay between iconic music and popular culture
Listen out for: talent like Tom Robinson, Bob Harris, Tracey McLeod
Network Z:
Top-quality entertainment to fire the imagination of adults and children and make listeners laugh. A new way of listening, it will be fun, intelligent radio. With the comedy greats from the past, present and future as well as drama and readings.
- Top comedy from top performers
- Daily magazine programme for children
- Readings of new and traditional works
- Best of the BBC Radio's drama store
- Interspersed with poetry
Listen out for: talent like Tony Hancock and Peter Sellers
Radio Five Live Sports Extra:
Live sporting events from the team that produces Five Live's award-winning coverage and offering the chance to use the BBC's sports rights to the full. This will be a part-time network, on air only when there are live sporting events taking place which are not scheduled elsewhere on BBC Radio.
The digital home of Test Match Special, Six Nations Rugby, additional Wimbledon coverage and extra football commentaries.
Listen out for: favourite Five Live presenters like Ian Payne, Alan Green, Jonathan Agnew
Asian Network:
Bringing more news and current affairs to Asian communities across the UK. Currently the Asian Network is only available in certain areas of the UK. This will take the station out across the country on digital radio.
- Covering issues of particular relevance to the broad Asian community
- A new specialist team to provide regular sports news
- High level of speech content to complement the latest in music
- Developing new multicultural talent both on and off air
Listen out for all the latest news and events from the Asian communities.
All the new services will be universally available on all digital platforms.
The proposal for BBC THREE was as follows:
BBC THREE is new generation television with a zest for life. Risk-taking new drama, innovative entertainment, cutting-edge comedy and a serious commitment to news and incisive documentaries combine to make it the home of pacey and original British programming.
Tapping into the energy and diversity of a multicultural UK, BBC THREE cuts to the core of the issues that affect younger people, such as drugs, relationships, sex and finances.
Unafraid to make bold statements, it supports new British talent to do big things and big British talent to do new things. BBC THREE is fast, irreverent and radical.
- Young, multicultural outlook
- Big talent doing new things and new talent doing big things
- Social action campaigns
- Hourly 60 second news bulletins with dedicated website
- Innovative entertainment, news, drama and comedy
- Confronts head-on the issues affecting younger people
- Dominated by new British programming
What you might see : No commissions have yet been made for BBC THREE, but the kind of things you might see are talent like Johnny Vaughan, Richard Blackwood and Davina McCall, shows like Shooting Stars, LA Pool Party and Rent Free, drama like Tinsel Town and The Fear.
Sorry if its two long
The eight new services will be:
Television
BBC Four - the channel will feature culturally enriching programmes, tackling new and unfamiliar themes in factual programmes and documentaries. It will be diverse, outward looking and globally-minded, with world news every week night and the best of international cinema.
Two children's channels - providing a diverse mix of original, entertaining and educational UK productions in an advertising free environment. The channels will be subscription free, ensuring no child is information poor. The pre-school service will include live-action and puppet-based series and new landmark commissions alongside Tweenies and Teletubbies. The older children's service will include a live interactive magazine programme three times a day, online communities and clubs, a daily news service, drama and new series from the Blue Peter team.
Radio
Network X - championing and developing black music, nurturing new talent in UK garage, hip hop, rap, r&b, drum and bass and reggae, exploring relevant issues through news, discussion, documentary and social action.
Network Y - featuring artists and music that have shaped popular music and culture over the last 40 years, using the BBC's archive and supporting artists who no longer receive significant exposure on other stations.
Network Z - a speech-based service for adults and children, with comedy, drama and readings - archive and new.
Asian Network - currently only available in some parts of the country, the station will expand to a network service, offering a mixed genre schedule in both English and Asian languages, with a strong emphasis on news and current affairs.
Radio Five Live Sports Extra - this will not be a full time network and will only broadcast when there are live sporting events that cannot be broadcast elsewhere on BBC Radio.
Approval has also been given for the BBC World Service in English to be broadcast across the UK as part of the BBC's digital radio offer.
These new services join the existing portfolio of BBC ONE, BBC TWO, BBC News 24, BBC Parliament and BBC Radio 1 to 5 Live.
Last year's licence fee settlement gave the BBC increased funding specifically to develop interactive and digital services.
- Link to DCMS Press Release
- Full DCMS press release in PDF format
- More at BBC News Online
THE BBC'S NEW SERVICES AT A GLANCE
BBC FOUR
More depth, more range, more stimulus for the mind – BBC FOUR provides culturally enriching programming for people who want more from TV.
BBC FOUR gives access to big ideas and brilliant people. It tackles new and unfamiliar themes in factual programmes and documentaries. It's diverse, outward-looking and globally-minded, with world news every weeknight and the best of international cinema.
And it captures the excitement of the performing arts, from multicultural, roots and world music to classical, theatre and dance.
- The power of the spoken word - interviews and debates with thinkers whose insights are changing the world
- Programmes on arts, science, history and current affairs which enhance, but do not replace, what BBC ONE and BBC TWO do in these crucial genres
- Nightly international news programme
- Primetime screenings of the best of international cinema and documentaries
- Performance programmes, including extended coverage of the big festivals
- Majority of output original UK productions
No commissions have yet been made for BBC 4, but the kind of things you might see are: dramas such as Peter Brook's Hamlet, acclaimed international cinema like Together and Blackboards, documentaries such as Start-up.com, Robert Hughes on Goya and Beyond the Holocaust, and performers from Bjork to Angela Georghiu.
CHILDREN'S CHANNELS
As children explore the new world of digital and multi-channel television (already over 50% of all children live in multi-channel homes), families can be sure the BBC provides top-quality programming and an entertaining, educational and fun environment for children – whatever their age group.
The Children's Channels offer an advertising-free zone, dominated by original UK productions. They will provide educational journeys and interactive entertainment experiences unmatched by any other UK broadcaster. This, along with new, landmark commissions, will ensure children get more quality programmes out of digital tv.
The Pre-School Channel:
- New live-action and puppet series, transmitted alongside old favourites such as Tweenies and Playdays
- New landmark commissions beside the best of the BBC's pre-school animation series
- Music, movement, storytelling, natural history and simple science and puzzles encouraging learning through play
- Unique, interactive enhanced-text service for children and adults
The Older Children's Channel:
- Live magazine programme broadcast daily during the week
- Up to three daily weekday news bulletins from Newsround (with interactive online site) – a service offered by no other UK children's channel
Exciting new shows from the Blue Peter team
- Specially commissioned UK-based drama and entertainment
Online clubs and communities encouraging children to get interactive and contribute ideas, opinions and creative content
A proportion of the output will be schools programming, transmitted during the day in term time
DIGITAL RADIO SERVICES
From the best in UK Garage to top comedy from the nation's favourite performers and from sporting events to new Asian talent, the BBC's new national radio services will weave together music, news, sport, entertainment and education.
Available through all digital formats, including the internet, digital radio, digital satellite and cable, the five new services offer diversity, distinctiveness and more high-quality programming from BBC Radio's award-winning teams.
The names for three of the new radio services are yet to be announced.
Network X:
A frontrunner in cutting-edge black urban music and a national platform for the best in UK Garage, Hip-Hop, R ‘n' B, Drum & Bass and Reggae, X will nurture new UK talent in front of and behind the mic.
- Contemporary black music rooted in current British culture
- Live performances featuring new black artists and DJs
- Dedicated news team and innovative approaches to journalism
- Strong online presence
- Topical discussions on issues like setting up your own business or breaking into the music industry
Listen out for: talent like The Dreem Teem, Tim Westwood
Network Y:
40 years of great music from the BBC's archives, explored in depth, with wit and intelligence. Artists who've become icons will be complemented by seriously credible new talent, there will be room to explore the whole catalogue, not just the hits. Connections between past and future music teased out in the present.
- The richest resource of the history and development of popular music
- Classic session recordings and new artists live in concert
- Respected expert presenters joined by new voices
- News and documentary reflecting the interplay between iconic music and popular culture
Listen out for: talent like Tom Robinson, Bob Harris, Tracey McLeod
Network Z:
Top-quality entertainment to fire the imagination of adults and children and make listeners laugh. A new way of listening, it will be fun, intelligent radio. With the comedy greats from the past, present and future as well as drama and readings.
- Top comedy from top performers
- Daily magazine programme for children
- Readings of new and traditional works
- Best of the BBC Radio's drama store
- Interspersed with poetry
Listen out for: talent like Tony Hancock and Peter Sellers
Radio Five Live Sports Extra:
Live sporting events from the team that produces Five Live's award-winning coverage and offering the chance to use the BBC's sports rights to the full. This will be a part-time network, on air only when there are live sporting events taking place which are not scheduled elsewhere on BBC Radio.
The digital home of Test Match Special, Six Nations Rugby, additional Wimbledon coverage and extra football commentaries.
Listen out for: favourite Five Live presenters like Ian Payne, Alan Green, Jonathan Agnew
Asian Network:
Bringing more news and current affairs to Asian communities across the UK. Currently the Asian Network is only available in certain areas of the UK. This will take the station out across the country on digital radio.
- Covering issues of particular relevance to the broad Asian community
- A new specialist team to provide regular sports news
- High level of speech content to complement the latest in music
- Developing new multicultural talent both on and off air
Listen out for all the latest news and events from the Asian communities.
All the new services will be universally available on all digital platforms.
The proposal for BBC THREE was as follows:
BBC THREE is new generation television with a zest for life. Risk-taking new drama, innovative entertainment, cutting-edge comedy and a serious commitment to news and incisive documentaries combine to make it the home of pacey and original British programming.
Tapping into the energy and diversity of a multicultural UK, BBC THREE cuts to the core of the issues that affect younger people, such as drugs, relationships, sex and finances.
Unafraid to make bold statements, it supports new British talent to do big things and big British talent to do new things. BBC THREE is fast, irreverent and radical.
- Young, multicultural outlook
- Big talent doing new things and new talent doing big things
- Social action campaigns
- Hourly 60 second news bulletins with dedicated website
- Innovative entertainment, news, drama and comedy
- Confronts head-on the issues affecting younger people
- Dominated by new British programming
What you might see : No commissions have yet been made for BBC THREE, but the kind of things you might see are talent like Johnny Vaughan, Richard Blackwood and Davina McCall, shows like Shooting Stars, LA Pool Party and Rent Free, drama like Tinsel Town and The Fear.
Sorry if its two long