BBC Three YouTube Channel Did Not Rebrand as BBC Deepwatch
“BBC Three's YouTube channel has rebranded to BBC deepwatch, a documentary page which was one of the channels announced as part of the YouTube partnership a while back. The channel went inactive 10 months before this, programming instead getting promoted on the main BBC channel.”
Summary
Deepwatch is a newly launched YouTube‑first documentary channel announced as part of the BBC‑YouTube partnership, not a rebranding of BBC Three’s existing YouTube channel. There is no evidence that a former BBC Three channel went inactive ten months earlier or that its programming was moved to the main BBC channel.
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