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Agreed. I don't have any objection to the BBC providing the recipes on a commercial basis (via the BBC Good Food website or similar), and even investing in new content if it's profitable, but the license fee should not be used to subsidize a recipe website.

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We've already paid for the recipes through our substantial license fees (about £150/year, so I've spent many thousands of pounds just myself).

So the BBC should make some money off it (at least from users outside the UK), and plough that money back into producing new content.

The license fee is so high because the BBC are throwing money at things like this.

I'm not enough of a fool to think that the BBC scrapping all these "inefficiencies" will cause the license fee to be reduced...or even stay the same

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