Two interesting facts for you:
1) Danny Cohen is BBC 1's new controller, on £260,000 + benefits. It's suggested that this is worth it given his sterling and innovative work at BBC3 from 2007 to 2010 (Source: p. 13 Financial Times Magazine, 23/24 October 2010).
2) In 2008-2009, 84.4% of the programmes shown on BBC3 were repeats (Source: p. 15 Prospect September 2010, citing The Daily Telegraph, 28th April 2010).
Hmm.