Brennan, Mhairi (2022). ‘The Custodian of the BBC Archives’:The future of BBC Four as an archive channel. Critical Studies in Television, 17 (2), pp. 201-207.
Abstract
In its Annual Plan for 2021/22, the BBC announced that it would cease to make new content for BBC Four, instead relying on repeats and archive programmes to fill the channel’s schedule. The decision might seem to be a pragmatic response to the corporation’s financial constraints, but will it really lead to the channel becoming ‘the home of the most distinctive content from across the BBC’s archive’ as the broadcaster claims? This article explores the potential risks to cultural memory of recycling archival material on BBC Four with no new content to add to the mix.
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221078507 |
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| Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy College of Business and Social Sciences |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BBC,BBC Four,television archives,Cultural Studies,Communication |
| Publication ISSN: | 1749-6039 |
| Last Modified: | 03 May 2024 07:23 |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2024 13:38 |
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| Published Date: | 2022-06 |
| Published Online Date: | 2022-04-21 |
| Accepted Date: | 2022-04-01 |
| Authors: |
Brennan, Mhairi
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