BBC FOUR

Quoted from Digital Spy

' BBC Four will launch on March 2nd, the BBC have announced.

The channel will broadcast daily from 7pm on all digital platforms, with programming including:

BBC Four News – George Alagiah presents the first primetime nightly news programme with a uniquely global perspective; a regular space every weeknight for intelligent talk and debate on the arts, culture, media, business, science and politics; a weekly books programme - the “readers' roadshow” - in which authors come face to face with their readers across the UK; a weekly topical profile on significant individuals from all walks of life; and unpredictable and experimental programmes that keep viewers in touch with the outside edge of culture and ideas.

Roly Keating, controller of BBC Four, said: “BBC Four is outward-looking and global-minded. It's for people who want more from television - more depth, more range, more stimulus for the mind. We want it to surprise, delight and challenge, but above all offer something satisfyingly different from the mainstream. It's British television's boldest new investment in cultural programming for a generation.”'

(Edited by frogman at 8:16 pm on Jan. 9, 2002)

Do I have to re-programme my digibox for this?

No, Katherine, you'll find new channels like that will appear, as if by magic, overnight, in your Digibox.

It's only some 'semi-unofficial' stuff like other ITV1 regions where you have to do anything yourself.

Guys I posted that ages ago in the other topic thats been running since this morning.

Oh, sorry newsat7, I didn't read it before. Anyway, we'll probably need a BBC FOUR thread some time in the near future.

Ben

EDIT: You didn't post it ages ago!! You posted it precisely 5 minutes before me and I hadn't noticed so I'm sorry about that but its not like it matters!

(Edited by frogman at 8:15 pm on Jan. 9, 2002)

You will have to do a re-scan if you have a DTT box.

The CBBC channels and BBC 4 are taking the place of Knowledge, but on 2 diffrent channel numbers, so a 'Store channels' will be necessary

BBC 3/4. Who really gives a monkeys what they're called?
It's the programmes that will be on them that should be the important thing

Call them BBC Dr Who & BBC Fornicator. Doesn't matter

(Edited by Techy Peep at 2:09 am on Jan. 10, 2002)

Now I wouldn't mind BBC Dr Who! It'd be better than the BBC Robot Wars that we've got at the moment!

BBC Fornicator sounds good to me!!

Surely BBC Four isn't a 'new' channel in the most literal sense, it's a replacement for BBC Knowledge, isn't it?

So I presume that new/add/other channels won't enter into the issue, and BBC Four will just appear on whatever EPG number BBC Knowledge is currently on (like when UK Drama replaced UK Arena).

Is this correct?

Not sure. I think the BBC will do anything to show this is a 'whole new channel' and not just a replacement for Knowledge. i.e. new presentation, new EPG placement.

Two new childrens' channels will certainly appear in the 600s. Seems as good a time as any to stick (Three) and Four elsewhere.

Cheers, Asa
Just come out of two maths exams...and survived to tell the tale!!

Even if it's on a different EPG to BBC Knowledge, is it true that it is a replacement (i.e. the EPG currently housing BBC Knowledge will house absolutely nothing when BBC Four launches)?????

Or will BBC Knowledge continue to exist where it is (i.e. it's not getting replaced at all)?????