NEW ARTS TELEVISION INITIATIVE

BBC chief announces major new initiative to revamp the public broadcaster. “BBC3 would target younger viewers with home-grown comedy, drama and music and BBC4 would be an “unashamedly intellectual mixture of Radio 3 and Radio 4 on television”. He said that the 800,000 visitors to the Monet exhibition at the Royal Academy last summer and the huge popularity of Tate Modern proved that there was a potential audience for a channel for ‘arts, ideas and in-depth discussion’.” – The Telegraph (UK)