Stuart Murphy has resigned

Yes - though Liquid News was, in reality, a development of Zero 30 (same production team, same presenter) which launched on News 24. Stuart backed it, and gave it a home and a better budget, and then axed it.

Of course some of us have the concentration span that enables us to watch the programmes!

He was a good controller in the sense that he is a visionary - I always got the feeling that unlike some other he looked at channels as a whole entity rather than merely scheduling the programmes. There are very few people who have been given a whole BBC channel to format and create - Murphy did it with 2 (if you count UK Play). Certainly it's some achievement to be running a channel at the age of 26

Yes and it certainly wouldn't have continued if it was left to News 24.

Liquid News was a great programme but in hindsight it's very obvious why it had to go, BBC3 was very heavily criticised for being too celebrity based - which it was at the time. Not good for a PSB channel with the remit that Three does.

The current format of the BBC Three news is a far adequate replacement , it has retained that Liquid News attitude

But still not quite as good as it was at the beginning of the year, if you ask me: it had the right attitude, and the right news agenda. It's a bit too 'news-lite' these days for my liking. Still a good show, mind.

Right, I guess I'd better find my 'Save BBC 3 News' wristband and wander up and down outside TV Centre with it.

*gasp*

Still one of the best set of idents currently around, in my opinion.