BBC Sport

How much content would a theoretical BBC Sport channel have? They seem to have more and more iPlayer only stuff and given that they've recently brought back BBC3 to low viewing figures, would this have been a better option to launch?

17 minutes ago, sam4731 said:

How much content would a theoretical BBC Sport channel have? They seem to have more and more iPlayer only stuff and given that they've recently brought back BBC3 to low viewing figures, would this have been a better option to launch?

They've been building up their sports streaming portfolio over the last decade. Plus sport is one of the remaining things that people opt to watch live, rather than on catch-up, when they have the choice. However, it is still mainly a weekend thing, and some weekends are short of content as things currently are. And many events overlap, which is why streaming works better.

But any move into that territory as an actual broadcast channel would probably spark a massively toxic pile-on from the usual presences in the tax dodger-owned media, especially the Murdoch press.

I've considered this in the past. It wouldn't be difficult to bulk out the programming when there wasn't any live sport by filling it with documentaries and news programmes and even broadcasts of historical matches from various different sports but in the modern day of television where tradition terrestrial broadcasting is dying a little and online streaming is becoming so prevelant it doesn't seem that there would really be much of a demand for it.