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BBC to close recipes website as part of £15m savings BBC to close recipes website as part of £15m savings
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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 mothballed, although the commercial BBC Good Food website will remain. All existing recipes will be archived, although the commercial BBC Good Food website will remain.
The proposals, announced by James Harding, director of BBC news and current affairs, include closing the Newsbeat website and app. The BBC news channel will not be closed but a decision will be made on its future in July.
They set out savings of more than £15 million, around 15% of editorial spend. The proposals were announced by head of BBC news and current affairs James Harding.
The announcement on Tuesday follows the publication of the government's White Paper on the future of the BBC last week. 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.
What is the BBC White Paper about? The iPlayer service will make other non BBC TV channels and programmes available to audiences.
What is the government proposing? The online creative review, revealed on Tuesday, sets out savings of more than £15 million, around 15% of the editorial budget.
The online proposals, subject to approval, include: 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
• Close the BBC's Food website. BBC Worldwide's Good Food site will remain
• 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.