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06 March 2014

BBC3 - Digital Zealots, Put Up Or Shut Up

The future is digital, and multiplatform. We know that.

Content, whether that be news or entertainment, is what matters. That content, comprising audio, video, images or text (in whatever combination) can be delivered to a bewildering multiplicity of devices by methods usually, but not always, involving the internet. Radio, TV and print are no longer discrete and exclusive media, but are simply three well established platforms within an ever-expanding range of options.

So far, so commonplace.

Then why the fuss if BBC3 comes off digital terrestrial broadcast TV? Why a campaign to 'save' content delivery to an unwieldy black box (or more likely, panel) in the corner? Illogical, Captain.