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It does seem strange that all we seem to hear about are cuts to BBC News, but we don't hear anything about cuts to BBC Sport, or any Entertainment cuts.

It's because the costs aren't as structured or fixed, a lot of it is not internal, involves freelancers rather than staff and little of it is permanently allocated to certain programmes - this all makes it harder to identify specific cuts. Entertainment programmes largely simply don't get recommissioned (and silently not replaced, or replaced with cheaper programmes), rather than being talked of as being a financial cut. Additionally, increasingly with drama programmes, the BBC co-produces with streamers or US producers to get additional funding, which is only available on a small scale with BBC News (World brings in about £6-10m in syndication fees).

News is also the biggest expenditure per genre by far, so there's more to cut. Nonetheless, there have been reductions in BBC Sport output and significant cutbacks on entertainment, factual, etc. commissioning over the same period. (Plus, always worth highlighting, the only major BBC broadcast service with a higher real terms budget in 2022/23 than 2012/13 was the BBC News channel).