Output

The Mark Thompson overview of winners and losers in the DQF round is light on detail, thus already causing anxiety.

He says the BBC News channel will lose its "features" output, and concentrate on big stories and breaking news. Does this mean the end for Click, Newswatch, The Bottom Line ?  Hardtalk is apparently safe, and will get outings in the afternoon on BBC2 (which loses it's entire daytime budget).

The regionally-produced Inside Out tv series is to be clustered - but which will survive and which will faced the axe ?

Newsgathering (reporters, correspondents, planners, producers, stringers etc) will be a single managed service operation across World Service and News - that'll create anxiety in some overseas offices.

There is to be a re-grading exercise, establishing no more than 5 bands between the DG and the most junior staff. "Senior management" will be no more than 1% of the workforce - and there is to be a target of further, unnamed, efficiencies - delivering 11% savings. But only the "first round" has been identified, so when directors of divisions brief their staff later, we won't get a full picture. In all, 2,000 jobs will go by 2017, and, as ever, "compulsory redundancies can't be ruled out".