[Roger Darthwell]

This was the exact same reason why BBC Three closed down in the first place, and we all know what happened, this strategy of online only will not work, it's been proven that it doesn't work

I'm not sure there's much evidence BBC Three's linear channel revival has been a success is there? That being the case why should we read in to it that cutting back linear output would be a mistake?

It has been a success, many shows have brought in comfortable ratings, it's still better than losing 89% of it's audience when they were online only