The BBC has stopped publishing financial market data on its website, app or TV red button service as part of its cost-saving drive, reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette.
Tobitt writes, “BBC News has provided market data pages for many years. It has previously said that its 2012 transition to a new website meant these pages were ‘sadly left behind meaning that the service provided a very poor user experience on anything other than a desktop device, and was very difficult for the BBC to maintain or improve due to an outdated codebase.’ They also suffered from ‘regular outages… due to the ageing of the market data hardware and software.’
“The market data service then received an overhaul in 2018 so it was hosted by the Cloud, responsive to different devices and did a ‘better job’ at providing news context for the data movements. The BBC said the changes meant ‘our broad audience now benefits from an improved user experience albeit covering a scaled-back amount of market data and related pages.'”
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