BBC plans to cut almost 4,000 jobs

[cthrumatrix]

BBC plans to cut almost 4,000 jobs

12 minutes ago Business - AFP



LONDON (AFP) - The BBC announced plans to cut almost 4,000 jobs to save hundreds of millions of pounds, as the world's biggest public broadcaster undergoes a major shake-up.


The BBC said it would slash 2,050 posts in the wake of 1,730 job losses confirmed earlier this month, or a total of 3,780 jobs.

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Among the redundancies announced Monday would be 420 posts in news, 66 in sport, 150 in drama, entertainment and children's programmes, 735 in the regions, 58 in new media and 424 in factual and learning.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1519&ncid=732&e=3&u=/afp/20050321/bs_afp/britainmediacompanyjobsbbc


Ouch

[GCP]

1. That's a real shame

News will be impacted and as they're one of the few decent news resources left, it's not a good omen.

[w4rma]

2. Blair is clearing the way for Rupert Murdoch's "news". (nt)

[Say_What]

8. Murdoch owns most of the news in the UK now and has for quite some time...

Print media, cable, and satellite.

<clips>

Spanning five continents and harnessing satellite, interactive, and innovative digital technologies, News Corporation's television operations continue to grow. The Company's television stations group has enjoyed ten consecutive years of record profits, and FOX Broadcasting Company is America's most watched network among young adults.

http://www.newscorp.com/operations/television.html

A crucial and increasingly profitable element of News Corporation's television strategy is its cable and satellite network programming. The Company's celebrated news, sports, general entertainment, natural history and multicultural program services attract nearly 300 million subscribers and are among the fastest-growing channels in the industry.

http://www.newscorp.com/operations/cable.html

Spanning five continents and harnessing satellite, interactive, and innovative digital technologies, News Corporation's television operations continue to grow. The Company's television stations group has enjoyed ten consecutive years of record profits, and FOX Broadcasting Company is America's most watched network among young adults.

http://www.newscorp.com/operations/dbst.html

News Corporation is the world's leading publisher of English-language newspapers, with operations in the UK, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the US. The Company publishes more than 175 different newspapers, employing approximately 15,000 people worldwide and printing more than 40 million papers a week.

http://www.newscorp.com/operations/newspapers.html

[arikara]

3. I will be cancelling my subscription to the BBC then

as there will be no point in watching anymore. Just more of the same old.

[GHOSTDANCER]

4. I hope your being cynical in some weird way? BBC needs our help.

We lose BBC news and the free world loses period.

[arikara]

5. I think we've already lost the BBC news

And I'm not being cynical, these mass firings are never good.

[Elidor]

6. "This is the worst day in the BBC's history."

"This is all money we plan to spend on programmes and content, both to improve the services we deliver to audiences right now and to build strong BBC services in the future," Mr Thompson said.

National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear said staff were being used as "political pawns" in "an unsavoury and grubby deal between government and senior BBC management".

"How can hard-working staff maintain quality whilst trying to do not only their own job but that of thousands of their colleagues too?" he said.

"The inevitable result is that staff will face burn-out whilst standards and quality will be damaged."

Fucking tragic. Thompson is just a hatchet-man.

[Deja Q]

10. Or a Thatcher-man.

x(

That bitch queen from hell started the decimation of the BBC, and was a spiritual lover of the other inmhuman slime, Reagan.

[chlamor]

7. Worldwide Trend-Kick

As the media consolidates the "Schiavo News" becomes the word on the street.

Become the media.

[struggle4progress]

9. kick