LONDON: The BBC stated on Wednesday (Apr 15) that the British broadcasting company is about to chop as much as 2,000 jobs amid a difficult media panorama.
The BBC’s interim director-general Rhodri Talfan Davies stated in a press release to workers that “whereas we nonetheless must work by the element, we anticipate the general variety of jobs will fall by 1,800-2,000”.
The BBC reported the cuts on Wednesday afternoon, saying they quantity to “virtually one in 10” jobs, because it has about 21,500 staff.
The appearing director-general stated in a message to workers, despatched to AFP, that this was as a result of the BBC faces “important monetary pressures, which we have to reply to at tempo”.
“Put merely, the hole between our prices and our earnings is rising,” stated Talfan Davies, who has taken on the function quickly.
“Inevitably, these plans will even imply lowering the variety of jobs within the BBC,” he added in a message that he stated adopted an all-staff name.
The BBC has to chop £500 million from its working prices of £5 billion “over the subsequent two years”, the director-general stated.
The BBC had beforehand stated it has to search out methods to shave 10 per cent off its prices over the subsequent three years.
