Plenty of smoke and mirrors in the BBC's Annual Plan for 2018/19. It forecasts licence fee income will be down £152m; notes that the contribution to Over 75 licences will be £480m over the year, and yet total income across the group rises slightly to £5,028m (from £5,004m last year). The Public Service side intends to run a deficit of £133m for the year - up from £3m last time.
And, in the spirit of transparency, there is no longer a breakdown of planned content spend by network. Direct public service content spend nudges down, from £2,817m to £2,765m. Television loses £100m, whilst Radio (Network, nations and local) gets £10m more.
One change signalled across radio in the nations and 'where you live' - it looks like you'll get more records. "We will be asking Ofcom to amend the Operating Licence to remove the 100% speech quota at breakfast time, whilst retaining the overall 60% quota for speech content between 06:00-19:00 on weekdays for English Local Radio, Radio Scotland, Radio Foyle, Radio Ulster, Radio Wales, and Radio Cymru.
"We are planning to change Asian Network’s news offering to the effective and popular Newsbeat format.
This may require a change to the operating licence."
More as we wade through it so you don't have to.....
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