Money saving experts

As you might expect with a frozen licence fee, the big totals in the BBC's Annual Plan for 2022/23 are unchanged, but there are winners and losers. 'Online' faces a £36m cut; Orchestras and Proms have to make do with £2m less; World Service is better off by £33m. 

Elsewhere, 'technology' gets an £8m cut, whilst 'marketing' adds £5m to the previous year's budget. 

The Annual Plan is gnomic on more job losses and programme cuts: "We estimate that the settlement will require the BBC to find £285m in annual savings by 2027/28. This will mean a reduction in the BBC’s audience offer. It also reduces the real-term investment we can make in the wider UK creative sector compared to a settlement that kept pace with inflation. We will set out our strategy for the remainder of the
Charter period before the summer".