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</style><table class="infobox vcard ib-tv-channel"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">BBC Choice</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">Logo used from 1998 to 2003</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Programming</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Picture format</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="576i" title="576i">576i</a> (<a href="16%3A9" class="mw-redirect" title="16:9">16:9</a> <a href="Standard-definition_television" title="Standard-definition television">SDTV</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Ownership</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sister channels</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a><br><a href="BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a><br><a href="BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a><br><a href="BBC_News_(British_TV_channel)" title="BBC News (British TV channel)">BBC News 24</a><br><a href="BBC_Parliament" title="BBC Parliament">BBC Parliament</a><br><a href="BBC_Knowledge" title="BBC Knowledge">BBC Knowledge</a> (until 2002)<br><a href="CBBC" title="CBBC">CBBC</a><br><a href="CBeebies" title="CBeebies">CBeebies</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">23 September 1998<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1998-09-23</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Closed</th><td class="infobox-data">8 February 2003<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="dtend">2003-02-08</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Replaced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="BBC_Three" title="BBC Three">BBC Three</a></td></tr><tr class="ib-tv-channel-availability"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">Availability</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef; color: #202122;">Terrestrial</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Freeview_(UK)" title="Freeview (UK)">Freeview</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Channel 7</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">

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<p><b>BBC Choice</b> was a British digital television channel which was owned by the BBC and was launched on 23 September 1998. It was the first <a href="United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> TV channel to broadcast exclusively in <a href="Digital_television" title="Digital television">digital</a> format, as well as the BBC's second non-analogue-terrestrial channel launch (following on from the <a href="BBC_News_(British_TV_channel)" title="BBC News (British TV channel)">BBC News channel</a> in 1997).<sup id="cite_ref-bbcdigital_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcdigital-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>At launch, BBC Choice mainly existed to supplement existing programming on BBC One and Two, with some low-profile original programming of its own.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, faced with low ratings for both Choice and its sister channel <a href="BBC_Knowledge" title="BBC Knowledge">BBC Knowledge</a>, in 2000 the BBC's digital strategy changed. Under new controller <a href="Stuart_Murphy" title="Stuart Murphy">Stuart Murphy</a>, the channel began to aim specifically at a young adult audience. The BBC ultimately planned to replace the channel with the higher-profile <a href="BBC_Three" title="BBC Three">BBC Three</a>, which, after some delay, began broadcasting in February 2003.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3></div>

<p>The BBC had been wanting to expand into the digital television market for a number of years, as their Director-General <a href="Sir_John_Birt" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Birt">Sir John Birt</a> said, "The BBC has always been a pioneer of technology"<sup id="cite_ref-bbcdigital_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcdigital-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. Originally this was by their association with Flextech, which spawned the <a href="UKTV" title="UKTV">UKTV</a> network. Both companies had different ideas on how the new channels would be run: the BBC wanted the channels branded as BBC channels, but Flextech wanted the channels to contain advertising. The BBC refused, stating that no domestic BBC channel should carry advertising.

</p><p>In the end, a compromise was made: Two of the channels would launch as BBC channels: <b>BBC Showcase</b>, and <b>BBC Learning</b> (later became <a href="BBC_Knowledge" title="BBC Knowledge">BBC Knowledge</a>), with the remainder of the channels being launched as the UKTV network, intended to be BBC in all but name. Prior to the launch, the channel changed its name from BBC Showcase to BBC Choice.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcdigital_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcdigital-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Launch">Launch</h3></div>

<p>When BBC Choice launched in 23 September 1998, no digital TV receivers were available to the general public as <a href="Sky_UK" title="Sky UK">Sky Digital</a> and <a href="ITV_Digital" title="ITV Digital">ONdigital</a> had not yet launched. Instead, the launch programme was broadcast over the internet, with the first day's schedule including a <i><a href="Tomorrow's_World" title="Tomorrow's World">Tomorrow's World</a></i> guide to digital television and repeats of the very first episodes of <i><a href="EastEnders" title="EastEnders">EastEnders</a></i> and <i><a href="Monty_Python's_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i>.

</p><p>The main format of the channel was a mix of BBC One and Two programming as well as original programming such as <i>Backstage</i>, broadcast live each weeknight, which took viewers behind the scenes of different parts of the BBC. The channel also provided exclusive coverage of music festivals such as <a href="Glastonbury_Festival" title="Glastonbury Festival">Glastonbury</a> and extended live coverage of sport, for when either BBC One or Two have to end their coverage early or their schedules are unable to provide live sport action.

</p><p>BBC Choice also introduced an innovative programme format known as 'Hotlink', which expanded on popular shows. Examples included <i><a href="Watchdog_(TV_programme)" title="Watchdog (TV programme)">Watchdog Extra</a></i>, where viewers could contact the show by phone or e-mail with either questions or feedback on the issues discussed. <i><a href="Crimewatch" title="Crimewatch">Crimewatch Extra</a></i> provided follow-up detail on the cases involved in the main programme, and <i>Row Z</i> was a football discussion forum that aired after <i><a href="Match_of_the_Day" title="Match of the Day">Match of the Day</a></i> finished on BBC One. The 'Hotlink' format has since been adopted by many other channels, particularly both <a href="ITV2" title="ITV2">ITV2</a> and <a href="E4_(TV_channel)" title="E4 (TV channel)">E4</a>.

</p><p>BBC Choice initially broadcast from 5<span class="nowrap"> </span>pm daily; this later switched to 7<span class="nowrap"> </span>pm. The 7<span class="nowrap"> </span>pm start carried over into its successor BBC Three.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children's_programming">Children's programming</h3></div>

<p>BBC Choice also aired <a href="Children's_television" class="mw-redirect" title="Children's television">children's programmes</a>; this duty transferred to <a href="CBBC" title="CBBC">CBBC</a> and <a href="CBeebies" title="CBeebies">CBeebies</a> when they launched on 11 February 2002.

</p><p>For the first year of BBC Choice, children's programming would air on weekend afternoons as <b>CBBC Choice</b>, and included strands like 'Dog & Dinosaur', 'The Crew Room', 'L&K Replay' and 'Re:Peter'. From 29 November 1999, this was supplanted with a daily <b>CBBC on Choice</b> strand, running from 6<span class="nowrap"> </span>am to 7<span class="nowrap"> </span>pm every day, for programmes aimed at pre-school children, with presentation links pre-recorded by a CBBC presenter. It included repeats of archive shows rarely seen on the main channels, such as the first few series of <i><a href="Bodger_%26_Badger" title="Bodger & Badger">Bodger & Badger</a></i>, <i><a href="Mr_Benn" title="Mr Benn">Mr Benn</a></i>, <i><a href="Paddington_(TV_series)" title="Paddington (TV series)">Paddington</a></i>, <i><a href="Simon_and_the_Witch" title="Simon and the Witch">Simon and the Witch</a></i>, <i><a href="Ivor_the_Engine" title="Ivor the Engine">Ivor the Engine</a></i>, <i><a href="Jonny_Briggs" title="Jonny Briggs">Jonny Briggs</a></i>, <i><a href="Pigeon_Street" title="Pigeon Street">Pigeon Street</a></i>, and <i><a href="Bitsa" title="Bitsa">Bitsa</a></i>. This continued until February 2002, when the <a href="CBBC" title="CBBC">CBBC</a> and <a href="CBeebies" title="CBeebies">CBeebies</a> channels launched, with the <a href="CBBC" title="CBBC">CBBC channel</a> taking up BBC Choice's daytime broadcast bandwidth, but occupying a separate <a href="Electronic_program_guide" title="Electronic program guide">EPG</a> position.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-2000_refresh">Post-2000 refresh</h3></div>

<p>In June 2000, the BBC radically changed its digital channel formats. The initial format had seen BBC Choice target a similar mixed audience to BBC One and Two with a general entertainment skew, with BBC Knowledge focusing on educational and informative programming. From 2000 both Knowledge and Choice became targeted to more specific audiences, with Knowledge moving to a broader documentary and culture mix and Choice focusing on developing a stronger relationship with the young adult audience, which historically the BBC had difficulty reaching. BBC Choice abandoned many of its original programmes such as <i>Backstage</i>, and aimed at younger people, with most of the early part of the schedules being made up of fifteen-minute programmes under the banner of "Refreshing TV" or "Micro TV". Entertainment news magazine <i><a href="Liquid_News" title="Liquid News">Liquid News</a></i>, presented by <a href="Christopher_Price_(broadcaster)" title="Christopher Price (broadcaster)">Christopher Price</a>, evolved out of News 24's <i>Zero 30</i> and became the channel's flagship show.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Announcement_of_the_end_of_BBC_Choice">Announcement of the end of BBC Choice</h3></div>

<p>In August 2000, the BBC announced that it would replace BBC Choice with <a href="BBC_Three" title="BBC Three">BBC Three</a> as soon as possible, which would become a continuation of the "youth" aspect of the new BBC Choice. But the government delayed approving BBC Three, which formed part of wider plans to reshape the BBC's digital provision, plans which also included the proposed <a href="BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a>, two children's channels, and five digital radio stations. Whilst BBC Three was delayed, the other proposals gained the approval of Parliament and the new channels went on air in 2002, meaning BBC Four launched prior to BBC Three. From October 2001, BBC Choice began screening a significant amount of new, young-skewing programming, the kind of content that had been earmarked for BBC Three.

</p><p>The BBC submitted a revised proposal for the new channel raised the target age range to 25–34 and increased the amount of factual and arts programming, with a nightly 15-minute news programme – it was hoped these changes would better illustrate how BBC Three would differ from rivals such as <a href="E4_(TV_channel)" title="E4 (TV channel)">E4</a>, <a href="ITV2" title="ITV2">ITV2</a> and <a href="Sky_One" title="Sky One">Sky One</a>. This new proposal for BBC Three was given the go-ahead in September 2002, with a set of public-service conditions laid down and a launch date of February 2003 set. The final night of BBC Choice was given over entirely to previews of the new channel.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Programming">Programming</h2></div>

<p>Initially, the main attractions of BBC Choice were multi-broadcast TV shows, with the option to choose which programme you viewed. The first broadcast by the <a href="BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> with this option was two months after the launch of the channel, showing <i><a href="Stressed_Eric" title="Stressed Eric">Stressed Eric</a></i>, with <i><a href="Naked_Video" title="Naked Video">Naked Video</a></i> as the <a href="Digital_teletext" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital teletext">Digital Teletext</a> option. In addition, BBC Choice also aired new episodes of some series, such as <i><a href="Robot_Wars_(TV_series)" title="Robot Wars (TV series)">Robot Wars</a></i>, before their first broadcast on the terrestrial BBC channels.

</p><p>Its single-show programming was mainly concerned with celebrities, including documentary profiles and the nightly entertainment magazine <i><a href="Liquid_News" title="Liquid News">Liquid News</a></i>. <i><a href="EastEnders_Revealed" class="mw-redirect" title="EastEnders Revealed">EastEnders Revealed</a></i> was the only show from the original 1998 channel lineup to survive and outlive the entire life of the channel itself, transferring to its successor, BBC Three.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regional_variations">Regional variations</h3></div>

<p>BBC Choice had regional variations for <a href="Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, <a href="BBC_Choice_Scotland" title="BBC Choice Scotland">Scotland</a> and <a href="BBC_Choice_Northern_Ireland" title="BBC Choice Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> which were broadcast in place of the network BBC Choice service in their respective areas from 10:30<span class="nowrap"> </span>pm (following the <i><a href="EastEnders" title="EastEnders">EastEnders</a></i> replay) to circa midnight nightly. At the time the BBC's digital offering included the national variants of BBC One (England, Scotland, Wales, NI) and a single nationwide BBC Two.

</p><p>The regional variations of Choice were discontinued in 2001 in favour of introducing regional opt-outs on <a href="BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a> to digital services; in some cases, such as <a href="BBC_2W" title="BBC 2W">BBC 2W</a> in Wales, analogue and digital versions of BBC Two were separately scheduled, but by 2010 all differences between the analogue and digital variants of BBC Two had ceased, and there is now one version of the channel in each area, broadcasting on analogue (until switchoff) and digital platforms. The English regional variants of <a href="BBC_One" title="BBC One">BBC One</a> were made available digitally from 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Since the cessation of the BBC Choice splits, all BBC digital TV channels (including Choice's successor <a href="BBC_Three" title="BBC Three">BBC Three</a>) have operated as UK-wide services with no regional opt-out functionality.

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<ul><li><a href="BBC_One_Northern_Ireland" title="BBC One Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_One_Scotland" title="BBC One Scotland">Scotland</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_One_Wales" title="BBC One Wales">Wales</a></li></ul></li>

<ul><li><a href="BBC_Two_Northern_Ireland" title="BBC Two Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Two_Wales" title="BBC Two Wales">Wales</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Three" title="BBC Three">BBC Three</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Parliament" title="BBC Parliament">BBC Parliament</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Scotland_(TV_channel)" title="BBC Scotland (TV channel)">BBC Scotland</a></li>

<li><a href="CBeebies" title="CBeebies">CBeebies</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="BBC_Scotland" title="BBC Scotland">Scotland</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Cymru_Wales" title="BBC Cymru Wales">Wales</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Northern_Ireland" title="BBC Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_North_East_and_Cumbria" title="BBC North East and Cumbria">North East and Cumbria</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_North_West" title="BBC North West">North West</a></li>

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<li><a href="BBC_London" title="BBC London">London</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_South_West" title="BBC South West">South West</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_South" title="BBC South">South</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_South_East" title="BBC South East">South East</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="BBC_iPlayer" title="BBC iPlayer">BBC iPlayer</a></li>

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<li><a href="CBeebies" title="CBeebies">CBeebies</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="U%26Alibi" title="U&Alibi">U&Alibi</a></li>

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<ul><li><a href="BritBox" title="BritBox">BritBox</a></li>

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<ul><li><a href="BBC_Canada" title="BBC Canada">BBC Canada</a></li>

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<ul><li><a href="BBC_Choice_Northern_Ireland" title="BBC Choice Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Choice_Scotland" title="BBC Choice Scotland">Scotland</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Choice_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Choice Wales">Wales</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Entertainment" title="BBC Entertainment">BBC Entertainment</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_First_(Australian_TV_channel)" title="BBC First (Australian TV channel)">BBC First (Australia)</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Japan" title="BBC Japan">BBC Japan</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Kids_(Canadian_TV_channel)" title="BBC Kids (Canadian TV channel)">BBC Kids (Canada)</a></li>

<li>BBC Knowledge

<li><a href="BBC_Knowledge_(international)" title="BBC Knowledge (international)">international</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Living" title="BBC Living">BBC Living</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Prime" title="BBC Prime">BBC Prime</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Select_(1992%E2%80%931995)" title="BBC Select (1992–1995)">BBC Select</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_TV_Europe" title="BBC TV Europe">BBC TV Europe</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_World_Service_Television" title="BBC World Service Television">BBC World Service Television</a></li>

<li><a href="BBC_Two_Scotland" title="BBC Two Scotland">BBC Two Scotland</a></li>

<li><a href="UKTV" title="UKTV">UKTV</a> (various channels)</li></ul>

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