Institution Research

BBC THREE

BBC THREE is a broadcasting channel which is mainly aimed at a target audience of 16-34 year olds. The institutions purpose is to provide innovative content to young audiences. It was previously known as BBC Choice prior to 2002.In addition, BBC THREE sometimes repeats programmes that are on BBC ONE e.g. Eastenders. There are different genres shown on this channel such as, comedy, News, Sports, Drama/Soaps. The main genre that BBC three focuses on is Drama; they show Doctor Who, Being Human, Sherlock, etc. All these programmes have been successful which shows this channel is popular and people regularly watch it which means it would be a good example of the target audience we want to aim our programme at.  Furthermore, BBC THREE have managed to win more awards in the recent years than the other big channels such as ITV2, E4 and Channel 5.  

E4

E4 is British channel which is partners with Channel for 4 they launched their companionship on 18^th January 2001. Their target audience is mainly aimed at 16-35 year olds. Some of the programmes E4 show is, Friends, Charmed, Big Bang Theory, 90210 etc. The ‘‘E’’ in E4 stand for Entertainment. E4 had a long term contract with BSKYB it only became free to air in 2008.