BBC3 or 4 to close?

I've not heard about this but my choice would be to keep BBC4 for the same reasons as you, Saturday night at 9pm. We do watch other programmes on that channel but never turn to BBC3 at all. I hope the rumours are wrong...

Hmm, perhaps as licence fee payers we should adopt the sort of "he who pays the piper calls the tune" attitude, but it probably wouldn't get us very far!

I've been reading about web activism today and am ready for a fight so perhaps we could start a FB or Twitter campaign and demand they listen to us?

We'd be lost without BBC4 on a Saturday...!

I love BBC4

I would really miss BBC4

BBC4 - Today; Woman's Hour; the Archers; From Our Own Correspondent; The Now Show; The News Quiz; I'm Sorry I haven't a clue... etc ... No, they can't take this station off the air.

anno I think you may be confuddled, it's not Radio 4, but BBC 4 the tv channel

Not the radio station, anno. BBC 4.

'Confuddled' sums me up. Apologies to all. OK. I would miss BBC4 too. Some of the history and archaeology programmes are unmissable, though they do tend to be repeated not too long after their first showing.

Usually a few hours after they've been shown. Which is great because I tend to nod off half way through the first showing then wake up to watch the second half when it's repeated in the early hours of the morning.

Where did you come across the rumors Tegan ?

When the Beeb were considering closing down Radio 6 Music, there was such an uproar that they reconsidered it.

It was on the AOL news bit when I turned on the pooter. Thank goodness I hadn't started listening to R6 when they tried to shut it down; I'd be devastated now if they did. R6 and BBC4 are my favourite things [along with Channel 4 Racing]. Crikey; I don't ask for much in life but, in a week when they shut down our village surgery and then our Post Office is threatened with closure, BBC4 would be the final straw . Heaven forbid that Gransnet is ever under threat!

Radio 6 is new to me. What sort of programmes do they have ? Can't find it in my local newspaper.

It's in the Daily Mail so it must be true!

Radio 6 music is a DAB channel only I think.
Cerys Mathews on a Sunday morning has a very eclectic mix of music. I listen to it instead of The Archers!

Oh, that's all right then. Panic over!

(in reply to merlot, not you, Culag!)

I would axe BBC 3. I've never watched it. I would hate to lose 2 or 4. Come to think of it I very rarely watch BBC1 either!

We watch BBC 4 much more than the other channels. 1 has been quite dumbed down and 3 always was dumb.

The only show I would have watched on BBC2 tonight would have been The Culture Show but it coincided with the BBC4 programme about animals sleep patterns which was on at the same time [I've been looking forward to that programme all day]. I'll watch the Culture Show on iplayer. And catch up with the programme about architecture on BBC4 early tomorrow morning. I mean, how can they drop a programe that shows Priscilla the octopus opening a jar to get her dinner ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HengPojNgbM
by the way if anyone watched the animals sleeping programme they mentioned about sperm whales sleeping and said it had only recently been discovered; but I have it on video from years back. Given that I've got boxes and boxes of videos I wouldn't know where to find it but here it is [hopefully] on utube. I was amazed when I saw it for the first time.

Which one is Montalbano on? That is the one I would vote to keep!!

BBC4