Reinvention to stay the same

For all the wailing and moaning that comes from inside Broadcasting House, you'd imagine public service broadcasting shrinking like coal-mining under Mrs Thatcher. Yet both BBC staff numbers and the wage bill have remained largely stable over four and a half years, according to the latest report from the National Audit Office. In the public service broadcasting side of the business, total full-time equivalent staff is down just 241, whilst the wage bill is up a handy £60m. There looks to have been quite a cull in BBC Studios, down close to 1,000 in less than a year, with £10m gone from the wage bill......