Yes but the reason there are so many repeats now is because programmes which previously would have been scheduled for BBC Four have been switched to BBC Two as part of the process of making BBC Four seem redundant.

In his first response to the government’s green paper and a funding deal that will see BBC annual funding cut by 20% over the next five years director general Tony Hall outlined ambitious new proposals set to cost £150m.

However, the “tough” spending deal – set to see more than £650m in total cut – will mean hard decisions have to be made in order to position the BBC for an age in which many more licence fee payers will be going online to use its services.

Hall, speaking at the Science Museum on Monday, said: “No one should doubt that the budget settlement announced by the chancellor in his July budget will mean some very difficult choices ahead. Having already saved 40% of the BBC’s revenues in this charter period, we must save close to another 20% over the next five years.

“Our share of TV revenues in the UK will fall, most likely, from about 20% now to some 12 % by the end of the charter.”

He added: “The BBC faces a very tough financial challenge. So we will have to manage our resources ever more carefully and prioritise what we believe the BBC should offer.

“We will inevitably have to either close or reduce some services.”

He also promised an “open BBC” that will collaborate with commercial rivals and expand internationally with an ethos of “excellence without arrogance”.

Hall said that the corporation needed to be reshaped to deliver services to increasingly digitally-savvy audiences.

“For the next 10 years we will need to ride two horses,” he said. “Serving those who have adopted the internet and mobile media, while at the same time making sure that those who want to carry on watching and listening to traditional channels continue to be properly served too. This is where the idea of an open BBC for the internet age comes from.”

Plans outlined included an expansion of the BBC World Service to non-democratic countries, including potentially a satellite TV service for Russian speakers and a daily radio programme for North Korea, opening up the BBC iPlayer to include rivals shows, and offering staff and content to local newspapers.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/07/tony-hall-bbc-cuts-bbc4

Ozzy – 2 hours ago  » 

… apparently, there are still people with black and white TV licences which only cost £49. (I read on the internet that 28,000 B&W TV licences are currently issued) How does that happen. Since the upgrade to digital TV, how have they got a digital receiver that only receives in black and white? I thought that it was the receiver not the screen which denoted whether you were in colour or not.

It’s the display, obviously, since that’s what your eyeballs light on in order to see a picture in either b/w or colour. A non-recording digital STB is all you need to keep watching in b/w post-DSO. If I remember correctly, quite a few were dispensed to elderly viewers in the run-up to DSO.