| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
| BBC Three | |
|---|---|
| Replaced | BBC Choice |
| Launched: | 9th February 2003 |
| Audience Share (Aug 2004[1]): | 0.6% |
| Owned By: | BBC |
| Web Address: | www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial Analogue: | not available |
| Terrestrial Digital: | Freeview Channel 7 |
| Satellite: | Sky Digital Channel 115 |
| Cable: | NTL Channel 126 Telewest Channel 106 |
BBC Three, previously known as BBC Choice, is a British television channel from the BBC broadcasting only on digital cable, terrestrial and satellite.
Launched on February 9, 2003 (eleven months after the launch of BBC Four), the channel is described by the BBC as an outlet for "New drama, talent, British comedy, top films and accessible news". The channel is on-air from 19:00 to 04:00 each night, in order to share terrestrial digital bandwidth with the CBBC channel.
The unique '60 second news' format was adopted so that operation of the channel could be completely automated, without the complication of dealing with variable length live news broadcasts.
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The output of the channel has been criticised by Private EyePrivate Eye is a fortnightly British satirical magazine- newspaper. It is currently edited by Ian Hislop. History The magazine has its origins in a school magazine edited by Richard Ingrams, William Rushton, Christopher Booker and Paul Foot in the mid 195 which argues that the £90m set up of the channel was too costly and driven by consultants and much of the schedule is taken up with the celebrity filler items and spin-offs of unpopular programmes such as Fame Academy. The channel has had critical and popular successes with series such as Little Britain but even this deen rapidly promoted to the main BBC Channels in 2004.