[Neil Jones]

There must have been a hell of a lot of devastated people when BSB closed. They probably thought that they had jobs for life and I doubt many were taken on by Sky.

I can't help but think of a parallel some 6-7 years later when the BBC attempted to launch a news channel on an Arabian service called Orbit. Due to various political pressures the channel collapsed after about 18 months and while many of the staff found jobs with Al-Jazeera there must have been an equal amount of heartbreak

Strange thing to say.
Anybody who works at a job and sticks it out for months will be upset when it gets pulled for whatever reason (the story of Wilko is the obvious example here) as you stick your own mark on things. If somebody isn't upset when they go then either they aren't human or something's happened that makes you glad to go (any compassionate person would at least play the "sorry I'm leaving" card, even if they aren't).

A previous job I held onto for nearly 13 years, got a bit of promotion along the way and redundancy came along. Was I happy about that? No, course I wasn't (if i was 68 and due to retire anyway, maybe I would have been, but retirement isn't an option at 36 so...). Was I upset about leaving? Yes, but the writing was on the wall so it wasn't a total surprise to me. Sometimes you can see these things coming. Anyway I found another work opportunity six months later and I'm still there six years later.

Job for life hasn't been a thing for years since long before BSB, I'm already on my fourth career job as it is, and I'm half expecting to change again (by choice or otherwise) at least twice before I get to retire.