BBC yanks Cult TV
p2pnet.net News:- Britain’s BBC is closing down its Cult TV site on July 15 – except for Dr Who, of course.
“Sadly, as part of the restructuring of the BBC’s online activities, this site is closing at the end of the month,” it says.
“We’re trying to find alternative bbc.co.uk homes for some sites, but much of the content will be removed from the servers, and that which remains will not be maintained.”
Some 700,000 cultists surfed over last month.
But that kind of traffic doesn’t do it, apparently.
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Cult TV – This site shuts soon. Bye, then!, July 1, 2005
July 1st, 2005 at 11:06 pm
Scurrilious it may be, to say this, but I wonder what and/or how much Tony accepted from Dubya to “perform” this *abomination*?
When America’s morality (*NOT*) is the World Standard. There won’t be hills high enough, to run onto
July 2nd, 2005 at 1:08 am
uh, i think you’ve lost the plot. it says nothing about dubya here. no reason to think he has something to do with it.
or, are you thinking that “yanks” refers to americans? that’s not the meaning here.
July 2nd, 2005 at 1:48 pm
What this doesn’t say is that CultTV was the second most popular BBC website, only beaten by their news sites.
This is probably because the BBC have just sold their interactive arm to an Austrailian company. Although they promised not to make anyone redundant for the first year, getting rid of their second biggest webstite and all it’s content is no doubt a precursor to slashing overhead by sacking staff. If you get rid of a big chunk of their online presence, you can get rid of the staff who run it.