Anxious

Am I right to be anxious about the future of BBC Four ?  Channel editor Cassian Harrison is elsewhere for nine months. The annual cost of content for the channel is c£44m; it delivers value at 6p per user hour (BBC1 7p); but it hasn't benefited much from lockdown.

BBC1 viewers tuned in for 5 minutes more every day in the last week of April, compared with the last week of January - up to 47 minutes 37 secs average per day. BBC4 moved from 2.02 minutes to 2.01 minutes.

Just to let y’all know am taking up a rather exciting new job at BBC Studios for a bit. More news to follow as and when...! https://t.co/AldJVh1HSR

— Cassian Harrison (@cassianh) May 5, 2020