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BBC sets the date to shift linear channel 3 online

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After a months-long battle that involved the boy wizard, Harry Potter himself (or at least actor Daniel Radcliffe), the war to save BBC3 as a linear channel has all-but reached an end.

Trutstees of the British public broadcaster have set spring 2016 as the date to relaunch the channel online, a move BBC executives have repeated is a necessary to serve the needs of a modern, digitally savvy audience of cable-cutters.

BBC3 launched in 2003 as a way to appeal to young viewers, age 16 to 34 years.

The channel was conceived “before the iPhone, Facebook, SBTV, Netflix, Snapchat, driverless cars and a man jumping from space. The world’s changed and what millennials and Generation Z want and expect from the BBC has changed. To meet their needs as licence fee payers we must offer them a service and content they want,” said Damian Kavanagh, controller for the channel, in a blog post.
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http://streamdaily.tv/2015/08/26/bbc-sets-the-date-to-shift-linear-channel-3-online/
 
jegrant said:
What would be nice is, if it's available online and *not* geoblocked to UK only.
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I can't understand why almost all BBC radio programming, save for some live sports, is available online, but none of the TV programming is. I listened to a great live set by Van Morrison from Belfast the other day on BBC Radio Ulster, no geoblocking at all. But if the show had been televised, I'd have been out of luck. Doesn't make sense.
 
Well, when I try to hear the EPL Games online on BBC Radio 5, I get this nagging message saying, "Legal requirements prevent us from bringing you live sport...please visit the chatrooms, which are open every match day." Thank God for NBC Sports and Telemundo here in the States.
 
blackgold said:
Well, when I try to hear the EPL Games online on BBC Radio 5, I get this nagging message saying, "Legal requirements prevent us from bringing you live sport...please visit the chatrooms, which are open every match day." Thank God for NBC Sports and Telemundo here in the States.
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Yes, Premier League games (and, I think, games from lower divisions on regional BBC stations) are geoblocked. But English county cricket is not. Again, sports seems to be the only BBC radio programming subject to geoblocking, as opposed to BBC television, which geoblocks everything.
 
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