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Elke Weissmann, Reader in Television Studies, Edge Hill University

CBBC's move online could damage its identity, value and brand recognition

Horrible Histories is one of CBBC's successful original programmes that entertains and educates children. BBC Pictures

You may remember when TV channel BBC Three was made an online-only brand in 2016. The reason given at that time was that teenagers and young adults, the channel’s target audience, were now all streaming television online anyway.

The naysayers (including academics like myself) suggested that this was a bad move. And we were not exactly surprised when BBC Three came back as a linear TV channel earlier this year.

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