The BBC have confirmed their new youth channel, BBC 3, will finally hit our screens on 9 Feb next year. The channel, which will take over the BBC Choice channel, was given government go-ahead earlier this year after BBC chiefs convinced media minister Tessa Jowell they wouldn't go head to head with Channel 4's youth targeted services.
The channel's controller, Stuart Murphy, told reporters he had chosen a Sunday, to relaunch BBC Choice as BBC3 because research had shown that was a "key night for our audience".
"This is only three months away and there is a lot to do on finalising the schedule for the channel," Mr Murphy added. "But any channel that brings together Dom Joly and a scientist like Dr John Marsden should stand apart in the multichannel world."