[steve]

There’s still an old fashioned view of how these decisions are reported in the media - closing a linear channel doesn’t mean its programmes are disappearing from being watched on a tv, as is so often implied, it just means the way they’re found is different.

We’ll occasionally have CBBC or CBeebies on in the background for our eight and four year olds but the vast majority of what they watch isn’t linear, it’s searched for on Sky Q and played as and when. We consume a huge amount of BBC programmes and they’re watched on television, just on a schedule curated by us not schedulers.

As a child of the era of the Broom Cupboard, do I find that sad? Yes. Is there any reversing the trend away and going back there? No.