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As Omnipresent suggested I think cutting the Friday edition would provide a better saving. It's preferable to filling time with panels debating/ arguing.

The problem is, though, that cutting the Friday edition wouldn't save much. You might be reducing the number of editions by 20%, but little of the budget will be tied up in edition-specific costs, with much of it being salaried Newsnight-only on- and off-air staff. Other than a few commissioned reports (although I'm not sure they really do them anymore), the only edition-specific costs are really appearance fees (which, sure, can accumulate, but we're still not talking huge savings). Plus, even if cutting the Friday edition did amount to a 20% saving, they appear to be looking for something more like 60% - that's only coming from a largescale-to-total wipeout of the Newsnight-only production team.

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.

You're optimistic. It's been sort of an open secret for a few years that executives have wanted to either axe or substantially pare back Newsnight - viewing it as expensive, unwatched and past its prime. It was only the existence of Victoria Derbyshire (the programme) that saved it in the last round of cuts; with nothing else left that can plug the gap, I'm not at all surprised they'd take this step. They're probably also looking for some more money to shovel to the news channel, which, as I said, would have to involve cuts to the rest of BBC News.