After to-ing and fro-ing with Lord Hall and the BBC Board since last November, Helen Thomas of Harrogate and BBC England has finally come up with her plan. With a slightly cheeky use of "reimagining" and "reinventing", Helen's cutting 450 jobs - 15% of her current 3,000 posts.
139 will go in local radio - five or more in each station, if evenly shared. There's to be an unexplained yet significant reinvention of regional tv centres "introducing a new consistent operation model for each newsroom, with digital story-telling at its core".
It looks like "Inside Out" is a goner, with a "'new investigative journalism programme on BBC1 for audiences in the English regions" promised. One programme, or eleven ?
"Weekly regional politics programmes" are described as "retained", after the usual parliamentary brou-ha-ha. And Helen wants to do more in the North and Midlands. With less money, obvs.
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