Corporation announces return of youth-oriented channel to linear programming after five years
BBC Three will return as a broadcast channel next year, the
BBC said, five years after it was dropped because the corporation argued its young viewers had abandoned terrestrial viewing.
The corporation said the decision to bring the channel back in January 2022 had been made in an attempt to woo back younger audiences who have turned away from its output. In 2016 the BBC Trust said that the move was justified because “independent evidence shows younger audiences are watching more online and watching less linear TV”.