Ouch

Two bits worth reflecting on from the BBC DG's speech to the Royal Television Society this week.

"We need to move faster on our plans for iPlayer, for BBC Sounds and for young audiences. I have challenged the organisation to find £100 million a year from our current budgets to invest in these priorities from next April."

£100m is the combined content budget of Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6Music. Or the combined content budget of BBC4 and CBBC. This will hurt, even if it's a reinvestment. It's over and above the target savings of £800m a year by 2021/22. Last year that took £160m out of the business.

"Already over 50% of our teams and our spend on commissioning is outside of London. But to truly reflect the whole of the UK in our output, the BBC not only needs to invest more, it needs to do so outside the M25. That will mean more money spent around England and the Nations. And more of our staff will be located outside London."

London staff in the newly-formed BBC Studios and BBC Design & Engineering will be twitching. They're ain't much else left to move out.