Sunday, November 20, 2011

News to bear the brunt of BBC cuts that bite across the board

2:33 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | Edit Post

two thousand jobs to go, a reduction in the sports and entertainment - and more repetitions TV

A small

BBC has lost 2,000 jobs, show more repeats on BBC2 and reduce spending on sports and entertainment programs such as the speaker presents plans to prove he could face a rate freeze license is due to last at least until 2017.

BBC will bear the brunt of job losses, with 800 jobs lost in large part from the merger of the public broadcaster's news service in the world and not the transmission of programs such as the BBC and Radio 16 hours live conferences of the parties.

Meanwhile, BBC3 will be transferred to the base north of the company in Salford, which will become the home for at least another 1000 people, taking its total workforce of 3,300, while the BBC is preparing to leave its headquarters in west London.

will also be a large reduction in production for BBC radio, with the exception of Radio 4.

Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, said the magazine - called "the quality of delivery of its first" - would lead to a minor and radically changed the BBC. The changes were designed to save £ 670 per year in 2017. However, the company had reached the end of the road, he said, if more cuts were forced in the future.

"We can not do that again. Another cut in real terms of the charge will inevitably lead to the loss of services or reduction in quality or both," he said. "If [we must] to go in real terms reduces the amount of the road to the left of the productivity savings are quickly depleted."

A year ago, an intense behind the scenes negotiations between Thompson and the Secretary of Culture, Jeremy Hunt, left the BBC with its license frozen at £ 145.50. The company also agreed to assume additional responsibilities by the government, including the World Service funded by taxpayers.
  • Despite the freeze, the company was able to prevent piracy of their digital channels or services, and its chairman, Lord Patten said that its scope has not decreased Significantly, "The BBC is not perfect but it is a great institution, and in his first, a great broadcaster. We have a hard and difficult for the settlement of new license fees, but should still be possible to exploit a station at £ 3.5 billion outstanding year. "
unions expressed concern about the impact of these changes. Gerry Morrissey, general secretary of the technicians union BECTU, said: "When Mark Thompson has made the BBC said the license could not continue to do everything, but it is cutting sausages I think the BBC should be brave and we must .. said they do not affect quality. This strategy is the destruction of the quality, employment and the BBC. "

BBC News
scrap 800 jobs, or about 15% of its total of 5000 to save £ 69 million of its annual budget of 430 million pounds. BBC1 lunchtime politics show on Sunday will be removed and replaced with a weekend version of everyday politics. The company also wants to end the annual shipment of shame more than 100 people at the conferences of the party to force people like Jeremy Paxman, and Eddie Mair on Radio London.

Michelle Stanistreet , Secretary General of the National Union of Journalists, said: "This is a decisive moment in the history of the BBC, we are surprised that the BBC, BBC Radio and Journalism Quality has been a disproportionate success today .. it reduces the risk of irreparable damage to the BBC and, inevitably, will jeopardize the quality of journalism and programming. "
existing daytime BBC2 will be removed, replaced by international news and current affairs at noon and repeated in the afternoon. BBC3 and BBC4 will be "redirected" to play a supporting role in the BBC1 and BBC2 respectively. Also there will be fewer entertainment and acquisitions abroad.



Find best price for : --Mark----Lord----Jeremy----Thompson----Radio----News--

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive

Blogger Template created with Artisteer.