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How the BBC review will affect TV and radio output

Published: 11:40AM GMT 02 March 2010

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Here are a little of the ways it will affect services for viewers and listeners (figures are taken from the majority new BBC annual report):

:: BBC1 (44 million weekly viewers, bill �1.39 billion, cost per user per hour 6.8p)

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Should enhance the ""knowledge"" outlay to areas such as story and science. Range and farrago of the channel ""must and will be maintained"".

:: BBC2 (32.6 million weekly viewers, bill �570 million, cost per user per hour 7.5p)

Will be determined as a home for ""intelligent and desirous drama, humerous entertainment and significant programming"".

An additional �25m will be injected in to the channel"s bill from 2013 to progress ""distinctiveness"".

More ""strongly authored"" drama, reflecting the state of the republic and world, and a stronger purpose for ""risky, innovative"" comedy.

Less competition on the channel.

:: BBC3 (10.6 million weekly viewers, bill �115 million, cost per user per hour 10.6p)

Must say joining to strange humerous entertainment and play and go on to move towards relevant, permitted and thought-provoking significant shows.

:: BBC4 (4.4 million weekly viewers, bill �71 million, cost per user per hour 16.8p)

The hire will be refocused with less humerous entertainment and entertainment, but some-more ""arts, music, enlightenment and knowledge"", and repository shows. It will be written to element BBC2.

:: Radio 1 (10.8 million weekly listeners, bill �43 million, cost per user per hour 0.6p)

Should say and presumably enlarge joining to UK and new music, live performances, amicable movement programmes and dilettante music.

:: Radio 2 (13.3 million weekly listeners, bill �50.7 million, cost per user per hour 0.5p)

Shift dilettante shows and facilities in to higher-profile slots. More documentaries, concerts, humerous entertainment and jazz.

Daytime shows will turn at slightest 50% debate during the day, and there will be a serve concentration on comparison listeners. It contingency safeguard it does not overlie any serve with blurb air call audiences.

:: Radio 3 (2 million weekly listeners, bill �51.1 million, cost per user per hour 6.3p)

No genuine changes detailed.

:: Radio 4 (9.7 million weekly listeners, bill �108.6 million, cost per user per hour 1.3p)

Will enlarge joining to ""ambitious believe projects"", such as the stream A History Of

The World In 100 Objects.

:: Radio 5 Live (6 million weekly listeners, bill �72.2 million, cost per user per hour 2.3p)

No vital changes detailed.

:: Radio 6 Music (0.7 million weekly listeners, bill �9 million, cost per user per hour 3.4p)

To close by the finish of 2011. It has ""relatively couple of singular listeners"" and boosting the assembly would have an inauspicious stroke on blurb stations, according to the review.

The BBC should say the altogether spending on strange digital air call calm to assistance with switch-over. The BBC will see in to how 6 Music"s ""distinctive"" programmes can send to alternative stations. Popular song report will combine on Radios 1 and 2.

:: Radio 5 Live Sports Extra (0.7 million weekly listeners, bill �3.7 million, cost per user per hour 2.6p)

No vital changes detailed, but highlighted as a indication for how digital stations can element the main service.

:: Radio 7 (0.9 million weekly listeners, bill �6.9 million, cost per user per hour 2p)

Will be aligned some-more closely as a interrelated hire for the primogenitor use Radio 4. It will be rebranded Radio 4 Extra.

:: Asian Network (0.4 million weekly listeners, bill �12.1 million, cost per user per hour 6.9p)

To close, with supports diverted to servicing Asian audiences in alternative ways. The examination pronounced the send from internal use to digital use had been formidable and supposing an "inconsistent listening experience". The assembly is disappearing and the costs are comparatively high.

An choice is to move to a network of part-time internal services with a little syndicated inhabitant programmes on DAB and middle wave.

:: Radio 1Xtra (0.6 million weekly listeners, bill �9.6 million, cost per user per hour 4.5p)

Links with Radio 1 will be "strengthened".

:: BBC Online (22.2 million weekly users, costs �177 million, cost per user per hour 9.7p)

The BBC proposes slicing spending by a entertain by 2013, with a analogous rebate in staffing levels. The series of sections to BBC sites will be halved by 2012, with most shutting and others being grouped together. There will be fewer "bespoke" programme sites.

There will be links to non-BBC sites on each page and the house aims to stand in the series of click-throughs to them.

:: CBeebies and CBBC (4.5 million and 2.9 million weekly viewers, cost �25.5 million and �50 million, cost per user per hour 1.8p and 9.5p)

The dual channels are pronounced to be "increasingly indispensable" as alternative broadcasters find themselves incompetent to deposit in children"s content. Spending will enlarge by �10 million a year from 2013 on UK-produced programming for children.

:: Switch and Blast! (strands on TV and in the BBC"s "learning portfolio")

The teenager services will be sealed as the examination says conjunction is "reaching the aim assembly effectively". Although the BBC should go on to aim younger teens, it contingency accept the purpose "will be delegate to that of Channel 4 and alternative broadcasters".