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Re: BBC set to announce budget cuts
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Originally Posted by Chris
The OP link has been updated with details of the cuts now.
- BBC HD is to go. It will be replaced with BBC2 HD.
- BBC2 is to lose its entire budget for daytime TV and will show repeats of quality evening shows instead plus more reliance on BBC News output like Hardtalk.
- BBC3 will focus more closely on pioneering new material to then feed in to BBC2.
- BBC4 will do likewise for BBC1.
- BBC3 is to be added to the list of departments moving to Salford - it will transfer in 2016.
- Radio1xtra will lose its own news bulletins. Except for during breakfast it will now share with R1.
- R3 likewise will now share bulletins from R4.
- Sports budget drops by 15%
- BBC1 budget drops by 3% but a greater proportion of what's left will go to comedy and drama.
- By 2017, staff levels to drop by 2,000.
Plenty more to see at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15165926 |
There is no doubts that cuts had to come as everybody has to tighten their belts and the BBC is no different but my worry is what happens in 2017 as l do not think the BBC could take any more cuts then without it affecting some of its quality output but what do you think Chris.
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