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Bbc3 Move Online
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If BBC3 is moving online to, as we're told, save money, how much money will it actually save? It will still be broadcasting, just on a different medium - why not just get rid of it completely? And what will happen to the now 'spare' channel?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The estimated saving is £30m per year. A large part of that sum will probably come from the BBC no longer having to pay the transmitter owners (Arqiva) for broadcasting the channel via terrestrial TV, with similar savings coming about through not having to pay Astra for satellite access.
BBC Three was transmitted on Freeview via the PSB1 multiplex (= 'bundle of channels')
https:/ /ukfree .tv/tra nsmitte rs/mult iplexes
The spare capacity could, for example, be used to increase the number of local BBC radio stations using that multiplex but, given that the whole point of removing BBC Three was to save money, it seems unlikely that any additional BBC programming (of either TV or radio) will be added to the multiplex.
BBC Three was transmitted on Freeview via the PSB1 multiplex (= 'bundle of channels')
https:/
The spare capacity could, for example, be used to increase the number of local BBC radio stations using that multiplex but, given that the whole point of removing BBC Three was to save money, it seems unlikely that any additional BBC programming (of either TV or radio) will be added to the multiplex.