BBC Two Rebrand and Onwards

merging 2 and 4 would be the sensible approach - from a viewing perspective. Bring a bigger audience to proper PSB content. Would lead to an almighty scrap for Spectrum, so the BBC will not do this until forced by Ofcom/Trust/Govt.

Hasn't BBC2's budget shrunk because that has gone to BBC3 & 4? What pointless channels!

Much, much better. Like it, though I agree it'd look better positioned somewhere else on the screen, like halfway down on the left hand side...

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/bbc2.jpg

Which would effectively mean the closure of BBC4, which wouldn't go down too well. I think the BBC having four mainstream channels is about right, they have to have at least that many in order to shore up viewing share and have any hope of competing in the multi-channel world.

BBC Four contributes so little to share (around 1% I think) that it wouldn't be missed in those terms. The problem would come with opinion former types who have become convinved that BBC Four, Radio 4 and bbc.co.uk are the only worthwhile BBC services.

but is that the terms BBC4 exists for? ratings?

BBC4 is home to some of the best and most worthy shows on telly, its a shame not that many people watch it but thats not a reason to scrap it.

You know this only happened so you would all like the box?

But if you put the same content on BBC2, surrounded by some of BBC2's popular factual stuff, BBC 4 content would get bigger audiences - a win win?

does anyone actually know whats going on then? has the change been dropped or postsponed? i like the mock above much beter with the left alignment!

I'm willing to stick my neck out and say if we don't see any changes during the 6pm junction we won't be seeing any today. As I said earlier, primetime this evening is dominated by special idents and it would seem odd to launch new trail styles, etc without accompanying idents. Having said that, stranger things have happened today on Two.

Meanwhile, the curse of the long-worded programme title strikes again:

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/2007TopGearDog/bbc2menulongtitle.jpg

I considered it to be the home of bloody good idents.