Strike action brews over plan to close BBC News channel

Because Ofcom doesn't understand viewers. Like the BBC says they'll end the original BBC 3 channel, Ofcom tells them to do a survey on young viewers habits. They then approve it.

Then they tell the BBC they need to improve drama on BBC 1 (because of Netflix's House of Cards), so instead of creating new BBC 3 content so teens would remember to access iplayer regularly, they instead use that budget for BBC 1 drama and BBC 3 on iPlayer goes months without new content.

Then they say they need content to bridge the gap between CBBC and BBC 3, because CBBC ends at age 12, and BBC 3 is suppose to start at age 16, so what little BBC 3 there is, is being spread even thinner because now it has to serve two different audiences.

And this gap content wasn't branded either CBBC or BBC 3, so I don't know if anyone even watched it.

Then Ofcom tells them that teens aren't watching linear TV anymore, so they tell the BBC to put BBC 3

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