BBC aims to save GBP 15 mln from online operations

News Broadband United Kingdom 17 MEI 2016
BBC aims to save GBP 15 mln from online operations

The BBC has completed a review of its online activities, led by Director of News and Current Affairs, James Harding. As a result, the corporation's online operations will focus on six key areas to ensure they remain distinctive and high quality. These six flagship areas are BBC News; BBC Sport;  iPlay and BBC Bitesize for children; BBC iPlayer and BBC iPlayer Radio; the Ideas service for arts & culture, history and science; and BBC Live, for historic moments and national events.

The Online Creative Review will cut back the spread of websites, apps and other operations to deliver a total saving of more than GBP 15 million, or 15 percent of the service's editorial spend. Multiple services will either be closed or scaled back over the coming 12 months. For example, the iWonder service will be closed, with its formats redeployed across BBC Online.

The BBC Food website will be closed, with the BBC Worldwide's Good Food site remaining; the online News Magazine will be closed, with the BBC focusing on distinctive, long-form journalism under a Current Affairs banner. Newsbeat output will be integrated into BBC News Online, with the separate Newsbeat site and app closing; and the Travel site will be closed and development of the Travel app stopped. The BBC also plans to stop running local news index web pages, and remove ring-fenced funding for iPlayer-only commissions. It will also cut funding for the Connected Studio digital innovation programme.

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