10 hours a day

There's yet another consultation on closing BBC3 as a broadcast channel, and a big hole in the BBC Executive's plans. They'd hoped use the spare capacity for BBC1+1, but the Trust didn't rate that as good value. Now, Auntie's committed to running CBBC until 9pm in the old BBC3 slot - so there's a transmission window from 2100 to 0700 still available, and we're not allowed, at this stage, to share the BBC Executive's ideas on what they want to do with it. Which doesn't seem fair. Unless, of course, the ideas aren't very good. (Click to go large)