Campaigners hope to save BBC Three with petition

In case you didn't know, BBC bosses want to take BBC Three off air and make it an online-only channel.

They'll also cut the budget by £60m. Popular drama, In the Flesh, has already been axed to save money.

The BBC Trust - which ensures licence payers get value for money - has the final say. It's been asking viewers what they think of the plan.

More 270,000 people have signed a petition opposing the move, which campaigners presented to the Trust.

"Thank you all very much for taking the trouble to bring it in in person," said Jon Cowduck from the Trust.

"We've now got lots of evidence to start working through."

Jono Read put the petition together.

"We just hope you'll realise the strength of feeling of BBC Three going online."

The petition was handed over to Jon Cowduck from the BBC Trust

After the handover Jono told Newsbeat he acknowledged the BBC has to make cuts.

"We are concerned about the impact of these programming cuts.

"I don't think the BBC Trust has made up their minds yet. I think they are there to represent the views of the audience."

BBC bosses think that many young people are happier watching programmes online than on TV. Jono isn't convinced.

"I live in north Norfolk and a lot of my friends choose to use the iPlayer a lot and they can't because they get buffering all the time, so they're not going to be able to access BBC Three on TV and they can't access programmes on demand at the moment."

A BBC spokesperson told Newsbeat: "With the licence fee frozen, we've had to make some difficult choices in order to save £800m a year, including moving BBC Three online. There is no easy solution and we have chosen to make a bold move to reinvent the service rather than simply having to take money out of all our programmes across the board."

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