BBC plans to cut up to 25% of workforce by 2016

Source: The Guardian

Tara Conlan | Wednesday March 16 2011 18.29 GMT

The BBC is planning to cut up to a quarter of its workforce by 2016 in order to make the necessary savings following the six-year licence fee freeze.

More than 1,000 job losses have already been announced – including 650 at the World Service and 360 from the BBC's online operation – and this figure is expected to grow significantly in the coming years.

BBC executives are understood to be working with a 25% staff reduction figure as they draw up plans to meet director general Mark Thompson's target of a 20% cut to the corporation's costs in the coming years.

According to BBC internal figures, as of September 2010 about 21,927 full-time staff were employed by the corporation, including 1,865 at commercial arm BBC Worldwide.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/16/bbc-to-cut-quarter-of-workforce

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maybe someone else will pick up the slack.

its charter was amended in a number of ways. One was to change the system for appt of trustees to its board, so that the appointees are selected by the Prime Minister -- which of course creates a major conflict of interest for an organization that's supposed to report on the PM and his administration.

Another change was to authorize outsourcing stories and services to private corporations.

I tried to get DU'er's to pay attn, and was brushed off. I don't take it personally; but what does it take to get DU'er's, not to mention others, to recognize these take-overs of important public infrastructure, before it's too late and actively object?

E.g., how many here are supporting Al Franken's campaign to try to rescue net neutrality?

Appointments by the prime minister? Privatization? These are not good signs; and totally against what I thought the BBC was supposed to be about. Independent broadcasting and the public interest. What the hell happened? Is this the fault of New Labour?

kind of unusual