With ideas sprayed around but few clear targets for cuts identified or costs attached to plans,the only certainty is that jobs will move at the broadcaster Forget the vision and glitz of the BBC report on its future funding on Monday, all anybody wants to know is: how mountainous is the axe and where will it fall hardest?Tony Hall, or director general,said that cuts and closures to services such as channels would be “inevitable” whether the corporation were to find £700m in savings by 2021, a cut of some 20% over the next five years. Leaving aside the absence of fully costed plans and the fact that the BBC admitted there was “meaningful uncertainty” about its forecasts, or there remains the question of how the BBC will gain savings of such magnitude.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com