BBC closing travel website

[NickFitz]

The BBC are too thick to work out a viable way to do that.

Ideally they would make them commercial but people like Murdoch moan that it ain't fair.

Umm… https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...-public-outcry

A huge public outcry, including a petition signed by more than 159,000 people, has provoked a climbdown at the BBC, which promised to keep many of its most popular recipes online less than 24 hours after announcing the closure of its food website.

In a statement issued late on Tuesday, the corporation said it would move as much as possible of the content currently on its BBC Food website over to the BBC Good Food site, which is owned by commercial arm BBC Worldwide.

[LondonManc]

Traffic news | Live reports from AA Roadwatch | AA

My first port of call when planning the escape back to Mancunia.

[SueEllen]

Doesn't everyone use Traffic England or it's Scots/ Welsh equivalent?

Nope I use local knowledge, Google maps, TomTom and local radio.

[NigelJK]

Or it just might be coz we is already paying for one:

Traffic England

Other UK territories are available.


Ninja'd

[Benny]

Doesn't everyone use Traffic England or it's Scots/ Welsh equivalent?

[SueEllen]

Only if there's Transgender travel reports.

Presented by Jon Snow.

qh

You mean Muslim ones presented by Cathy Newman.

[quackhandle]

Wonder if channel 4 will pick it up

Only if there's Transgender travel reports.

Presented by Jon Snow.

qh

[AtW]

Makes sense - after Brexit almost nobody will be able to afford to travel anyway.

[SueEllen]

would of thought they could spin them off as separate with the BBC/Government holding shares both are probably very viable

The BBC are too thick to work out a viable way to do that.

Ideally they would make them commercial but people like Murdoch moan that it ain't fair.

[SlipTheJab]

Wonder if channel 4 will pick it up

[vetran]

would of thought they could spin them off as separate with the BBC/Government holding shares both are probably very viable

[d000hg]

I never knew this site existed but I heard the reicpes one was very well regarded and was similarly cut for "streamlining". Did anyone end up taking that content over and is that a possibility in this case?

[Moose423956]

The BBC have decided to close their travel website. I use this every day to check the traffic between work and home, and plan my journey based on that. It's really useful because it's map-based. They're going instead to a text-based service based on local news sites by the looks of it.

Lot of people unhappy about it judging by the comments.