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The BBC has spent almost £277 million on redundancy payments to nearly 6,000 staff in the past seven years. An average of £46,200 was paid to sta...
How should the BBC achieve cuts of 20% across the board? Maybe a cut in executive pay, sacking Chris Moyles or taking fewer taxis would be a start. Instead, they're proposing cutting BBC Introducing - a network of local radio shows playing new music from the area, and feeding into a national Radio 1 show. The Introducing show is the very definition of public service (and something a commercial operator wouldn't touch), and life for musicians outside London will be much tougher without it.
In times like these, when money is tight it's only right that the BBC looks at where it can reduce its costs. But it is just as important that this is done in a way that is fair and protects local services and jobs where possible. Currently they aren't as 280 of the 380 jobs scheduled to be lost in the English regions, will come from local radio.
Unions have warned strike action is inevitable if the BBC presses ahead with plans to "radically" reshape the corporation. The BBC has unveiled a b...
The BBC is set to cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of changes aimed at making savings of around 20%, sources have said. The corporation w...
Daytime television schedules could also be slashed, expensive US imports reduced and major series repeated several times to cut the corporation's spen...
