BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television
(Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK . The part
successor (with CBeebies) to BBC Knowledge, it launched on 2 March
2002.
It shows a wide variety of programmes including drama, documentaries, music, international film, comedy and current affairs ... an alternative to programmes on the mainstream TV channels. It screens a number of original documentaries such as The Century of the Self and The Trial of Henry Kissinger. The channel is also home to many political travel shows such as Holidays in the Axis of Evil which features investigative journalism.
BBC Four has an annual budget of ?67m (?49.8m on content, ?2m distribution, ?15.2 infrastructure) which is only 4.7% of that of BBC One (but 1.8% of the audience) and consequentially has a schedule dominated by repeats.
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