On 16 Feb 2016 at 9:17, CJB CJB <[email protected]> wrote: > To cater for the yoof market BBC 3 is going online only. However this > is on the proviso that all ex-BBC 3 programmes are aired at least once > on the 'mature' channels BBC 1 / 2 / 4. > > This latter is to the disgust of older than average licence fee payers > - there's too much 'yoof' stuff on ITV as it is - now the Beeb is > following the trend. Huh - just how many times do you want to watch > "Don't Tell The Bride'? But that's moving to Sky 1 later this year. > > Anyway I've just done a GiP cache refresh for Radio and TV and the > former was as long as usual, the latter quite short. > > BTW I wonder if the recent outages were caused by the Beeb engineers > removing BBC 3 content from the iPlayer servers? The moot point being > whether BBC 3 online content will be available via iPlayer and > get_iplayer? > > Family Guy is moving to BBC 2 AND ITV 2!!! Yet American Dad seems to > be left out. > > CJB
I can count on the fingers of one hand how many BBC3 programmes I have watched in their entirety since it launched. Some seem interesting from TV guide blurb, but after 1-7 minutes it is change channel time. BBC4 used to be offer a reasonable range of programmes, but last year or so it has degenerated to arty Yentob type rubbish. Coming soon on BBC4 the Great British Paint By Numbers Another Renaissance _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
