[Kojak]

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were ultimately a return to a more analogue-style offering of BBC One, Two and maybe some form of BBC News/World. In fact I’d say the same will go for all channels - the extra channels from all the networks were very much a product of the 2000s, and on-demand is eroding the need for them.

I actually think that online delivery could see the BBC launching many more linear channels. It would be accepted that most will watch content on demand, but the likes of the BBC could quite easily launch 20 or so fast channels to satisfy casual viewers, so you could quite easily have the CBBC and BBC News fast channels run for next to nothing. I would assume the reason the BBC haven’t got into this in a big way so far is because of charter limitations. Although they effective launched audio equivalents of fast channels on BBC Sounds.

I should clarify - I meant on traditional TV. I can see there being some compromise where much of Freeview’s capacity is closed/replaced by 5G, but one or two multiplexes are kept in operation with a greatly reduced number of channels. Much more like analogue TV than what we currently have.