Radio 2 in the Park 2024

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

I did consider putting this in Radio1 but I don't know if it's directly related enough (it's the wider BBC but with apparent emphasis on Teen-aimed content) so I'll pop it here.

BBC to cut online budget by 25%

The BBC is to cut about 200 websites as it reduces the amount of money it spends on its online output.

The changes, which will see BBC Online's budget cut by £34m, will also result in the closure of up to 360 posts over the next two years.

Among the sites to close include teen site Switch and community sites h2g2 and 606.

The plans are part of the BBC's cost-cutting measures to make 20% savings as a result of the Licence Fee settlement.

The changes are intended to make the BBC website more distinctive and reduce competition with commercial websites.

Skills website RAW, creative teen service Blast and documentary website Video Nation will also be closed under the reorganisation.

Other reductions include the replacement of the majority of programme websites with automated content and the automation of bespoke digital radio sites 1Xtra, 5 live sports extra, 6 Music and Radio 7.

'Refocusing priorities'

There will be fewer news blogs while standalone forums, communities and message-boards will be reduced and replaced with integrated social tools.

There will also be a reduction in the overall amount of sports news, live sport and showbusiness news, but also more culture and arts coverage on the News website.

About 180 websites are expected to close ahead of schedule later this year. The overall changes will be made by February 2013/14.

BBC director general Mark Thompson said: "BBC Online is a huge success, but our vast portfolio of websites means we sometimes fall short of expectation.

"A refocusing on our editorial priorities, a commitment to the highest quality standards, and a more streamlined and collegiate way of working will help us transform BBC Online for the future."

As part of the BBC's Putting Quality First strategy, BBC Online will form 10 distinctive areas: News, Sport, Weather, CBeebies, CBBC, Knowledge & Learning, Radio & Music, TV & iPlayer, Homepage and Search.

Editorial focus will be on high quality news, clearer local sites on news, sport, weather and travel and creative spaces for children.

The iPlayer will also be re-shaped into a unified offering, bringing together programming and programming information with archive content.

The current BBC Online budget is £137m.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12265173

If the BBC wants to save money, I have an idea, stop paying massive salaries to overrated idiots like Graham Norton by giving them Golden Handcuffs deals, let them go to ITV and bankrupt them instead?

Naw but seriously it's a shame about some of this stuff going, some of it is stuff that few will care about though. Think the biggest shame for me is H2G2 going, surely that can be taken over by someone else? (that said, we already have Wikipedia which is largely similar)

[Jono]

I considered H2G2 and 606 popular aspects of BBC Online. I can understand Switch going though.

It's a shame message boards are going to be cut even further. You don't get that rapport like you do on here with Twitter and Facebook but I can see how they're decent replacements.

[bmstinton93]

Is that why they have cut 5 minutes off the end of Chris Moyles on Iplayer then?

[DC]

so much for developments on the bbc archive online then. would love to hear some old radio 1 stuff instead of it collecting dust.

[bmstinton93]

so much for developments on the bbc archive online then. would love to hear some old radio 1 stuff instead of it collecting dust.

I think they scrap them all/ I have heard Chris Moyles say many a time that they don't have stuff archived

[Timsk]

I'll echo Doovde's comments about closing H2G2 - losing this ongoing legacy to the late great Douglas Adams will be a real shame, even though it has been superceded now as you say...

I wonder what SamTheInternetGuy's thoughts are on all this generally?

[DC]

I think they scrap them all/ I have heard Chris Moyles say many a time that they don't have stuff archived

not true. when moyles went to new york in late 2005 he visited ground zero, and put together a little montage of him on air when he used to be on afternoons of the september 11th attacks. i think what he means is that he dosen't keep stuff like edited clips and so fourth. radio 1 probably gets recorded elsewhere and stored away there. besides, i recall david a member on chrismoyles.net who worked for a local bbc station a few years back. saying he could get hold of any moyles show from 1997 onwards, but couldn't justify a reason for a local bbc station to get them in.

[E*F*4L]

shame the BBC bosses want people to go to untrusted, biased & sites that have nobody to answer to, like the ones run by Rupert Murdoch for example.

Sky News Tells Lies.

[Viv]

"standalone forums, communities and message-boards will be reduced and replaced with integrated social tools."

Where are they now? The BBC message board shut down the R1 boards some time back.

[DC]

yes and this site got the backlash if i recall. we got flooded with people saying "omfg!!!1 iz scott millz gay?!!"