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Originally Posted by Less
I enjoy BBC4, Just wonder why there is a BBC4?
Comes on at seven in the evening, then around 10 at night they repeat what was on earlier, then again later at night.
Surely with the history of the Beeb, they could do re-runs of many great prog's and keep us interested, but the same one several times on the same night?
A sure sign of overstretching or fudging their (all the Beeb's) budget?
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Believe it or not, repeats cost money. Everyone involved in making a programme signs a contract which gets them a fee every time something is reshown. In the 70s and 80s a contract generally allowed for two repeats and two overseas showings but with the age of a thousand digital channels things are a little different, hence there are fewer repeats of older programmes these days.
Some charity programmes can't be reshown at all due to the original terms of the contract.