BBC Three

BBC Three
Logo for BBC Three used since 1 February 2022
Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	United Kingdom United States
Slogan	Feel Good TV
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	BBC
Sister channels	BBC One BBC Two BBC Four BBC News BBC Parliament CBBC CBeebies BBC Scotland BBC Alba
History
Launched	9 September 1972; 52 years ago (1972-09-09) (original) 1 February 2022; 2 years ago (2022-02-01) (relaunch)
Replaced	BBC Choice
Closed	16 February 2016 (2016-02-16) (original)
Links
Website	BBC Three
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 23 Channel 109 (HD) (England & NI only)
Streaming media
BBC iPlayer	Watch live (UK only)

BBC Three is a British television channel from the BBC.

BBC Three was described by the BBC as a channel for 'New drama, talent, comedy, films, and accessible news'. It ran from 19:00 to about 04:00 each night, in order to share terrestrial digital bandwidth with the CBBC channel. Unlike its commercial rivals, 90% of BBC Three's output is from the United Kingdom and other European Union countries. 80% is original, covering all genres from current affairs, to drama, to comedy to animation, BBC Three returned to TV screens in February 2022.

BBC Three had a unique '60 second news' format. This was adopted so that operation of the channel could be completely automated, without the complication of dealing with variable length live news broadcasts. The current controller of the station is Danny Cohen,^[1] and the Head of Scheduling is Dan McGolpin.

BBC Three closed as a standard television channel on 16 February 2016. On the same day BBC Three launched on BBC iPlayer as an online only service.

The BBC relaunched BBC Three's television channel in February 2022.^[2]

1. ↑ "BBC - Press Office - Danny Cohen named Controller of BBC Three". Retrieved 11 August 2008.
2. ↑ "BBC Three to return as a broadcast channel in January 2022". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2021.