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Just 20 years ago the viewership outside the establishment terrestrial broadcaster's flagship channels was just 4%, last year it was over 40%.
The BBC Trust said that BBC3 and BBC4 would remain valuable but would suffer budget cuts and would support the flagship channels with more co-ordinated commissioning and scheduling.
However, during her time, the BBC's flagship channels continued to perform well, with BBC1 holding audience share better than all rivals – although BBC3 was criticised for its lightweight programming and BBC4 for only attracting small audiences.
The more the BBC flagship channels chase the ratings, and the more that BBC4 refuses to be dictated to by them, the more the channel looks like a model for what a slimmed-down version of BBC television could look like.
THIS was the BBC's nightmare: that on the day the analogue signal was switched off and even BBC1and BBC2, its free flagship channels, were only available digitally, their transmission would be controlled by Britain's most powerful pay-TV operator, Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB, because Sky owned the most powerful digital platform.
Consistently excellent strands such as BBC2's This World get major promotion for the first episode, but none for the rest; yet each film is different, and it is the only regular programme on the BBC's flagship channels that presents the rest of the world - if regular is an accurate description of a programme that is shown at 7pm on 15 weeks out of 52 plus six one-hour specials.
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Its flagship channel has been steadily losing market share (though it still pulls in viewers for its prime-time hits).
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