BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
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BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
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Curiously, BBC Four had to launch before BBC Three as a result of the government delaying approval plans.
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The BBC Four plans were approved earlier, and as a result launched before BBC Three.
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BBC Four was different from the old BBC Knowledge: the channel would be more heavily promoted with more new and original programming and the channel would not be broadcast 24 hours a day.
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On 12 May 2011, BBC Four was added to the Sky EPG in the Republic of Ireland on channel 230.
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On 9 April 2021, the day that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh died, BBC Four was suspended for a whole day so the BBC could continue coverage of the Duke's death across its television, radio and online services.
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BBC Four is widely available on cable, IPTV and digital satellite television in the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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On 10 September 2005, the channel began showing new idents comprising a central BBC Four logo surrounded by four quadrants which show different stages of the same footage thus making for a sort of optical illusion; for example, a swimming pool where a person on an inflatable ring appears in the bottom-left corner, though ripples don't enter the remaining quarters.
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In March 2019, BBC Four added several new idents inspired by "oddly satisfying videos" in tandem with the quadrants theme, originally premiering for a programme season honouring the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web.
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