Don't know whether to post this here or in the C5 thread, but the closure of BBC Three has meant the Radio Times have promoted BBC Four to their main listings page, with Channel 5 now relegated to the Freeview section. The main listings page now has BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Four.
The Daily Mirror have replaced BBC Three with ITVBe. What a way to make BBC Three look like HBO.
Some suggestion of longer availability of BBC THREE online content. The New series of Cuckoo is being given 5 months availability on the iPlayer from today. Not seen other examples yet but could be common going forward.
For viewers in the Republic of Ireland; the channel listing for BBC Three in the RTE Guide has been changed to TLC.
I will miss BBC Three very much. I would very much will like to see the newer programmes on BBC One and BBC Two as often as possible whenever they will begin there hopefully very soon.
The Radio Times is also being misleading suggesting that the drop to about 3 hours of new content a week is actually barely a cut, because in recent weeks/months the linear channel hasn't had much more than 3 hours of new content.
But hasn't the channel been in a run down state for ages now, with limited content as the wheels of the BBC Trust finally deciding what to do run much slower than the programme commissioners?
Also I really can't stand the inconsistency of having BBC One, BBC Two, and BBC Four. Don't try and tell me BBC Three still exists and it "doesn't need to be a TV channel for it to be consistent". I've heard that argument before and it's a load of balls. That's like saying ITV1, ITV2 and ITV4 are television channels but ITV3 is a vacuum cleaner.
There isn't an ITV1 any more, their numerical sequence is equally illogical. Furthermore, BBC Four came along before BBC Three, and that seemed OK at the time.
It's a shame that the controller and the BBC in general doesn't seem to appear to care about what BBC Three achieved as a linear channel and celebrating it in someway.
One of Angelica's questions on The One Show tonight was whether there was a hint of sadness that the channel had closed and the controller completed diverted the question with some spiel that it hasn't closed it's simply regenerated online.
I'd be surprised if the brand of 'BBC Three' can survive solely online even after just a few years. If it's losing the exposure of a channel it can promote then how can they promote new programmes as 'Made by BBC Three' when the term BBC Three will become basically meaningless as time goes on. The suspicion of BBC Three and Radio 1 merging could be quite likely I think.