Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Just saying....

Another warning this afternoon that programmes and services are in line for cuts as the BBC chases "strategic" savings to balance the books.

DDG Anne Bulford reports "We have set productivity targets across the whole BBCof at least 1.5% every year for the current five year period. At 31 March 2018, theBBC has already successfully delivered nearly a third of the overall £800 milliontarget. Another third of the target has already been planned."

Putting it another way, cuts of £266m a year have yet to be (publicly) identified. The BBC currently spends £15m on Radio 6 Music, saved from the axe by Trustees in 2010.  BBC Parliament costs £10m pa; Lord Hall seems to have re-imagined the impact of cuts there. BBC Three's annual budget was halved to £30m when it went online only in 2016. £266m is quite a big number.....

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