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The BBC Food website carrying more than 11,000 recipes is to close as part of a plan to cut £15m from the corporation's online budget. | The BBC Food website carrying more than 11,000 recipes is to close as part of a plan to cut £15m from the corporation's online budget. |
All existing recipes will be archived, although the commercial BBC Good Food website will remain. | |
The BBC news channel will not be closed but a decision will be made on its future in July. | |
The proposals were announced by head of BBC news and current affairs James Harding. | |
They include closing the Newsbeat website and app, as well as indexes dedicated to providing local news to more than 40 geographical areas around the country. | |
The iPlayer service will make other non BBC TV channels and programmes available to audiences. | |
The online creative review, revealed on Tuesday, sets out savings of more than £15 million, around 15% of the editorial budget. | |
Mr Harding said the internet required "the BBC to redefine itself, but not its mission". | |
He said The BBC must also be clear about what it will not do online. It cannot be all things to all people," said Harding. | |
The proposals, subject to approval, include: | |
• Close the iWonder service, redeploying its formats across BBC Online | • Close the iWonder service, redeploying its formats across BBC Online |
• Focus on distinctive long-form journalism online under a Current Affairs banner and close the online News Magazine | • Focus on distinctive long-form journalism online under a Current Affairs banner and close the online News Magazine |
• Integrate Newsbeat output into BBC News Online, but close the separate Newsbeat site and app | • Integrate Newsbeat output into BBC News Online, but close the separate Newsbeat site and app |
• Continue to offer travel news online but close the Travel site and halt development of the Travel app | • Continue to offer travel news online but close the Travel site and halt development of the Travel app |
• Stop running local news index web pages, offering instead an open stream on our rolling guide to BBC and local news provider stories, 'Local Live' | • Stop running local news index web pages, offering instead an open stream on our rolling guide to BBC and local news provider stories, 'Local Live' |
• Remove ring-fenced funding for iPlayer-only commissions | • Remove ring-fenced funding for iPlayer-only commissions |
• Reduce digital radio and music social media activity and additional programme content that is not core to services | • Reduce digital radio and music social media activity and additional programme content that is not core to services |
Mr Harding said "no decision" had been made on the future of the BBC News Channel, but that the closure of the rolling channel was not an option. | Mr Harding said "no decision" had been made on the future of the BBC News Channel, but that the closure of the rolling channel was not an option. |
Among six options on the table, to be decided on by the executive board in July, were a single news channel offering "a global agenda from London". | Among six options on the table, to be decided on by the executive board in July, were a single news channel offering "a global agenda from London". |
Recipe petition | |
Recipes from TV programmes will remain online for 30 days, but the planned end to the BBC's Food website has had a strong reaction. | |
An online petition to save the recipe archive has attracted more than 30,000 supporters. | |
Dan Lepard, a chef whose recipes appear on BBC Food, said the website was an "extraordinary, world-class archive" and asked where were "our rights" to preserve such a "library". | Dan Lepard, a chef whose recipes appear on BBC Food, said the website was an "extraordinary, world-class archive" and asked where were "our rights" to preserve such a "library". |
"With the BBC recipes, you know they work. I can tell you that loads of recipes out there, don't work, will fail. The BBC ones work," he told BBC Radio 4's Today. | "With the BBC recipes, you know they work. I can tell you that loads of recipes out there, don't work, will fail. The BBC ones work," he told BBC Radio 4's Today. |
Xanthe Clay, a food writer for the Daily Telegraph, said it was a "fantastic archive" of largely British recipes which come directly from chefs, and was "part of our cultural heritage". | Xanthe Clay, a food writer for the Daily Telegraph, said it was a "fantastic archive" of largely British recipes which come directly from chefs, and was "part of our cultural heritage". |
What's cooking? | What's cooking? |
The online proposals announced on Tuesday follow the publication of the government's White Paper on the future of the BBC last week. | |
What is the BBC White Paper about? | |
What is the government proposing? | |
Last year, Chancellor George Osborne said the BBC website was becoming "a bit more imperial in its ambitions". | Last year, Chancellor George Osborne said the BBC website was becoming "a bit more imperial in its ambitions". |
"If you've got a website that's got features and cooking recipes - effectively the BBC website becomes the national newspaper as well as the national broadcaster. | "If you've got a website that's got features and cooking recipes - effectively the BBC website becomes the national newspaper as well as the national broadcaster. |
"There are those sorts of issues we need to look at very carefully," he said. | "There are those sorts of issues we need to look at very carefully," he said. |