11-09-2023, 07:59 PM
Having read the article, I don't think it really tells us much.
"There are suggestions that the aim is to cut its budget to closer to £3 million" (from £8mn), and that former chairman Sharp thinks it should repackage (irrelevant to main claims anyway) seem to be the only *actual* new information.
An executive said "the restructure washed out lots of costs but it wasn’t enough" - but we know that the BBC needs to save money already.
It quotes a few sources saying something along the lines of "Newsnight was exempt" from cuts to journalist numbers and "if they want to make real savings then that will come from shedding correspondents" but that doesn't mean it's going to happen.
It literally says that the debate idea "has been rumbling for some time". So what's the news then?!
I know there's no smoke without fire etc etc but "speculation" and "talks" that it "could" be changed is just tiptoeing around any sort of meaning, so I'll take this with a pinch of salt for now.
(Famous last words - if this is true it will be a tragedy)
Also - as an aside - I'm not sure it's really valid to point to slumping viewing figures as in 2020, lockdowns increased TV viewing across the board, and also the news went slightly mental...
"There are suggestions that the aim is to cut its budget to closer to £3 million" (from £8mn), and that former chairman Sharp thinks it should repackage (irrelevant to main claims anyway) seem to be the only *actual* new information.
An executive said "the restructure washed out lots of costs but it wasn’t enough" - but we know that the BBC needs to save money already.
It quotes a few sources saying something along the lines of "Newsnight was exempt" from cuts to journalist numbers and "if they want to make real savings then that will come from shedding correspondents" but that doesn't mean it's going to happen.
It literally says that the debate idea "has been rumbling for some time". So what's the news then?!
I know there's no smoke without fire etc etc but "speculation" and "talks" that it "could" be changed is just tiptoeing around any sort of meaning, so I'll take this with a pinch of salt for now.
(Famous last words - if this is true it will be a tragedy)
Also - as an aside - I'm not sure it's really valid to point to slumping viewing figures as in 2020, lockdowns increased TV viewing across the board, and also the news went slightly mental...