01-09-2023, 12:31 AM
BBC Three's original closure in 2016. Felt surreal watching how the BBC was spinning it as a 'move online' when they didn't have the budget to keep it running, it did have a great send-off with the Late Late show cameo and the live continuity acknowledging the closure.
UKTV Bright Ideas at least got a nice sendoff for a channel that was clearly approaching its end as Freeview became more important for many broadcasters to take seriously than just treating it as a shop window for their Pay TV offerings.
Virgin 1/Channel One went with a whimper considering that Sky was already in the process of overhauling its channel portfolio, it also marked the complete end of Flextech/VMTV as an independent channel provider. When it closed the HD swap reshuffle already took place and it was shunted to the less prominent areas of the Sky EPG as a temporary measure.
They did kill two birds with one stone by integrating aspects of Sky3 and Channel One into Pick.
UKTV Bright Ideas at least got a nice sendoff for a channel that was clearly approaching its end as Freeview became more important for many broadcasters to take seriously than just treating it as a shop window for their Pay TV offerings.
Virgin 1/Channel One went with a whimper considering that Sky was already in the process of overhauling its channel portfolio, it also marked the complete end of Flextech/VMTV as an independent channel provider. When it closed the HD swap reshuffle already took place and it was shunted to the less prominent areas of the Sky EPG as a temporary measure.
They did kill two birds with one stone by integrating aspects of Sky3 and Channel One into Pick.