BBC recipes - we are being frugal, cutting back on web pages

Are you from the 1980's?

errrr, what the bbc have done is very loudly announce that they will remove two hugely popular services (their recipes and newsbeat) so that people will react with outrage. (already 125k signatures on the online petition to keep the recipes)

later on they will say that they are only implementing cuts recommended by the government and use the public outcry as evidence against implementing said cuts.

They could always lop a bit off Graham Norton's salary.

Correct DS, BBC could easily save the money if they wanted too.

Spot on DS, it is rather transparent.

and now they've "climbed down" and will be moving the recipes to their good food site.

massive, easy, cheap and staggeringly quick PR win.

quite impressive, regardless of whether you agree with it or not.

Storm in an egg cup.

Surely removing Shearer, Lineker and Norton would receive a big PR boost as well. Replace them with talented people on a tenth of the wage.

how to improve the BBC

use bbc red button station for weather. 24 hr weather. lose weather in news station.
stop the booming beat in the news station. so you can watch it at night without waking everyone.
get rid of the old fuddies that have been presenting shows for thirty years - give someone else a chance.
when they tell a news story, expand upon it later. Some news is just forgotten and never gets a mention again. Example man falls off building and is in hospital? you never hear if he survived?
Close down fifty percent of crap radio. Condense the tv back to two stations. The old folks never go past the five stations.
drop the license fee to £75. eventually make it subscription.

but none of this is going to happen - They are about expanding. Even when they are making cuts. They are expanding.

Forumites have fallen for the government's con trick.

This is not about saving money. The government wants to weaken the BBC by cutting back its web site and dropping popular programmes to make life easier for their mates at Sky (and beyond).

They have always been pushing the envelope of their remit.

Why do they need to make savings if given a guaranteed annual cost of living increase in licence fee?

Agree about getting rid of the big earners.  Any of those jobs could be done by someone on 10% of the big salary with little discernible difference.

The BBC 'make' the stars, then end up paying for it!

Keep the channels and programmes I like and get rid of the rest. 

Therot set in for teh BBC when Blair and Mandelson went cap in hand to Murdoch's ranch for his political support in 1996. The price was to remove analogue and deliver digital services TV that can be paid for. Blame them for prostituting themselves and us.

Keeping a site going once it's been created doesn't cost much money does it.
This is politicing. See my other post, Eddie Mair, radio journalist nobody has heard of, is on £425,000.
They could pay for a couple servers to host the old site until 2050 for a small fraction of that.

was saying the same thing today. Probably costs more to scrap the pages than to leave them alone.
It's scaremongering. Ooh we are losing this vital resource?
As if I can't get a recipe somewhere else? BUT it's BBC garlic chicken. PLEASE stop strangling us BBC.

There are bound to be some overpaid staff at the BBC, but overall it provides a great service - when any major event happens, its the only news service you can rely on to be independent and objective. The cuts to their funding have been going on for years, and the Govt removing the license fee for over 75s was a joke. These cuts have already seen massive reductions in their ability to broadcast sport - let them keep putting the license fee up at RPI, and let them get on with doing what they do best - almost every other nation on earth would love to have an organisation like the BBC, and its something we should be proud of

Value for money? BBC1 the prime time station gets 1200 million a year to spend. (of 4.2 billion overall budget) yearly hours 8,760. Means they have £116,438.00 an hour to spend on tv on bbc1.

say £100,000 per hour.

Bargain hunt ?
pointless ?
doctors ?
money for nothing ?
flog it ?
escape to the country ?
homes under the hammer ?
the code ?

All so valuable - so good you'd buy the box sets to watch them over and over again.

All sports gone.
no top US comedy shows - they tried showing Seinfeld in the early hours.
films this week on bbc1 from saturday to friday - buster(1988)texas rangers(2001)the hand that rocks the cradle(1992)

an episode of Columbo costs £25,000 an episode to get the screening rights(you might get a free repeat with a good deal)

where is the value on bbc1 ?

£100,000 an hour won't buy quality drama or sport. That is why there are so many cheap programmes -- panel shows, shows where the public take part for free, or experts for a cheap daily rate. No expensive sets, either.

When the Euros and the Olympics come round, the BBC are great (and its alot more than £100,000 per hr)

Dont forget the prodigious amount of radio they produce as well

No - its 117,000/hour just for BBC1 - not for anything else(1.2 billion). 3 billion for other stations and radio.

Running columbo for 24 hours would cost a quarter of the cost. 25 percent. I'm not saying run columbo 24 hours a day. But it shows up the gulf in costing.

If they drop Bargain Hunt MILLIONS of pensioners and students will march on London!

BBC is a commercial channel and has been for years   - why is it not free like other commercial channels ?

The BBC should form a mini city complex like the Vatican in Rome? They are the only institution that is protected. By propaganda. It never stops relaying the message that it is crucial. It is the sole repository of truth. It should have a statue of a maiden holding a torch in it's mast head. They now show clips of news that happened on this day in the past? watch BBC 24. It's another way of cementing their role as news historians. (Reuter's always beat them to the punch, sometimes by hours?).

the various government's in the last forty years has sold every other crucial institution. So why is the BBC bullet proof?

Gas
electricity
railways
post office
british telecom
lots more too.

governments - got to proof read