BBC closes food sites, travel news and to save millions – Daily News – Lisbon

The station will close several of its platforms “online” to achieve 19 million euros savings plan.

almost a year ago that the British parliament discusses reforms to the operation of the BBC. The first concrete measures were announced Tuesday by the public station, which decided to close several of its platforms online , in order to meet a 15 million pound savings plan (EUR 19 million) about 15% of its editorial budget

As a result, in the next twelve months will be closed the “sites” of the BBC Food.; segment of the radio BBC1 “Newsbeat” which will direct its contents to the BBC News; BBC Travel; and the journal online BBC News, which will publish your articles in the news section. Also cease to exist local news indexes for more than 40 geographic areas of the United Kingdom and the iWonder service, which answers questions from viewers about all kinds of topics.

“The Internet requires that BBC reset, but not its mission. we will leave to do some things that we double our work, such as food or travel, which already have larger and better resourced services in the market, “he explained responsible for BBC News folder and current affairs, James Harding.

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proposal is to be less well received by the public is the closure of the BBC Food, which provides for the elimination of about eleven thousand recipes presented in culinary programs (on the revenue of future programs will be available only for 30 days). In an attempt to save the revenue of the public station file was opened a petition “online”, which has already achieved almost 100 thousand signatures.

These measures were announced after last week, the Government of David Cameron published the white paper document with government proposals for introducing reforms at the BBC, such as end entertainment programs mornings and afternoons, betting on a greater differentiation in the supply of TV channels and radio and greater transparency in the way the budget of EUR 3.1 billion are applied.