[TheGregmeister]

I can see the same happening for CBBC, audiences choosing not to go to iPlayer but instead Disney+, Netflix, etc. but keeping BBC Four is at least showing that the BBC can afford to keep an arts and archive programming channel alive... even if it means they have to sacrifice a 7-14 year old demo at the BBC.

The CBBC demographic may have no choice but to go to iPlayer.  SVODs like Disney+ and Netflix are drifting down the priority list where families are trying to save money.

People have the misconception that the BBC Four audience need to be spoon-fed a linear channel. They are the 'silver surfers', many of whom are more than capable of navigating iPlayer or t'interweb to find their fix of art and nostalgia. Furthermore, you don't need to be that smart to use a Smart TV these days.

I hope both channels are saved. If they stopped starving the BBC of money, they could be!

Not wanting to make this political, but it has to be said, the BBC is one broadcast organisation hardly "starved of money" when it gets somewhere in the region of £3.7billion per year from the (payable by law but IMO increasingly unenforceable) TVL, then something like £1.5billion in additional revenue from its various commercial activities.

Of course that is a whole other argument beyond the permitted scope of this forum, so let's not go down that rabbit hole!