BBC Cuts
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Number paying BBC TV licence fee fell by 500,000 last year
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The £169.50 annual fee is mandatory for anyone who watches live content from any broadcaster.
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MPs to examine future funding of BBC World Service
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A new inquiry into future funding of the BBC World Service has been announced by MPs on Parliament’s International Development Committee.
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MPs say BBC ‘lacks clear plan’ to shift spending out of London
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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have expressed concern at the BBC’s handling of plans to shift more of its spending out of London.
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Cash squeeze sees 1,000 BBC jobs axed
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Some divisions currently have as many as 10 tiers of staff, in future this will be capped at 7 tiers in all areas of the organisation. Work is also underway to “simplify and standardise procedures” across the organisation to eliminate duplication and waste.
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BBC bosses charge households for taxis, wines, lunches and BAFTA memberships
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Despite enforcing huge cutbacks on programme budgets and axing thousands of lower paid jobs, top managers at the BBC have cut their expenses by just 9%. In the face of a less than generous licence fee settlement budgets are being slashed by 20% with valued services such as local radio being dramatically scaled back. Meanwhile…