BBC exec says BBC Food closure was a ‘misunderstanding’ as recipe-saving petition reached 185k signatures
A BBC executive has denied that the broadcaster U-turned on the deletion of BBC Food’s archive, earlier this week.
The company said that BBC Food was to be phased out and its recipes “archived” as it looked to cut costs across its entire operation. Later that day, a sizeable petition, garnering 185,000 signatures in a matter of hours, seemingly pressured the BBC; it then said that the archive was indeed to be merged with BBC Good Food, an external publication run for profit by the BBC’s commercial wing, BBC Worldwide.
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Source: The Drum
