Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Penny pinching

The FT, having a good run of BBC stories, says big cuts are coming at BBC Parliament. It claims the channel will lose all original programming, drop daily summaries of parliamentary proceedings, end live coverage of party conferences, and cut production staff to single figures, in a bid to reduce the annual content budget of £2m. 

In the last Annual Report, BBC Parliament was costed at 5p per user hour, BBC1 at 6p per user hour, BBC Scotland at 29p per user hour.  Content spend on BBC Alba was upped from £8m to £9m. Content spend on Radio 3 in Wales was £2m. 

Peter Knowles, Controller of BBC Parliament, left in May, after 20 years minding the channel. 

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