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BBC3 closure: Cohen would have preferred to do it in five years' time

The BBC's director of television has admitted that he would have preferred to axe the BBC3 TV channel in "four or five years", giving more time to develop the audience for iPlayer on-demand content. Danny Cohen, the former of BBC3 controller admitting in an email to BBC staff on Thursday explaining that the should close the channel as there was an argument to the digital shift. He states that he would have closed the company four to five years ago. He goes he would have then improved BBC3 so that if was meeting the new shift of digital media. He goes he would have protected the programmes budget from more major cuts acroos the board. In moving BBC3 online the corporation is aiming to take a leaf out of theNetflix playbook, using the opportunity to break from the rules that govern traditional TV, such as programme and series lengths.

My view:I think if Danny Cohen closed down the company and improved it today BBC3 would have been very successful. This is because they would have met the new needs of the digital media, as there has been s shift lately. They would have developed the Iplayer very much as well for the audience. He goes he would have improved BBC3 so that it meets the customers shift and he goes he would have cut down on programme budget. I think if he went on and shut BBC3 for the time he wanted it for, he would have improved the channel very well. I thinki BBC3 could of had the risk to lose their viewers as they were not meeting their needs.