Institution Research

It was launched by an individual who also ran BBC Choice in the past and before that ran the UK Play, which is now a well known UK TV music and comedy channel. When he was of around 33 years of age, Stuart Murphy was known as the youngest to be known who controlled a channel in the United Kingdom. BBC Three, is a television network broadcasted by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). The way in which they broadcast is through digital cable, IPTV, terrestrial and satellite platforms. The channels shown on BBC are Comedy, Drama’s, Spin off Series and repeated series of those that have been previously shown on BBC One and BBC Two, to allow those that have missed it to have another chance to watch them. This helps them to gain more people watching as they feel that the BBC value their customers as they want to make sure they don’t miss out on anything. The channels they show are targeted at those that are between the ages of 16 – 34. On average BBC Three people recieve nine million people watching their channels, and are doing slightly better than their rivals, ITV2 and E4. BBC Three is on air from 19:00 to 05:00 every night.

E4, one of the most well known British Digital Television Channels, as it has a lot of different channels aimed at those between the ages of 15 – 25, was launched as a pay tv companion to Channel 4 in 2001 on the 18^th January. When it was first aired, it was as part of the Sky Satellite Subscription package, and due to a contract with BSkyB, it then only became free in 2008, which meant it could be viewed without having to pay any extra subscription fees. The reason behind having an E in it, is due to the fact that the channel mostly consists of comedy and entertainment, hence the E stands for Entertainment. They show a huge variety of different shows such as Desperate Housewives, How I met your mother, 90210, The Big Bang Theory, Revenge, Hollyoaks, Skins and etc.