[ViridianFan]

True, but the savings that come from cutting presenters were always going to be modest - it's a tiny fraction of the previous channels' budgets.

With the savings they’ve made being swallowed up by pay increases for the board. I’ve just thought out of interest I’d see how much of a pay rise members of the board have received whilst at the same time making the cuts they have. 

The top ten paid executives have received between them over £200k with Tim Davie having received £75k of that! I would love to know how they can justify that when the output of the bbc in general seems much poorer and the reductions in services.  Yes the license fee freeze hasn’t help but IMO when you are in an organisation such as the BBC you need to be leading by example and saying we know we have to make reductions and it’s painful but we won’t be taking pay rises either.  My father is the director of a large company and has recently done the same thing as his argument was you can’t expect staff to not have rises and to take one. 

Back to the news channel. They need to accept and acknowledge that at the moment this mixed set up is not working and do something about. Whilst UK viewers aren’t happy, in the grand scheme there isn’t much we can do apart from complain, if world viewers don’t like it they’ll stop buying into it which ultimately reduces the amount of money it brings in making the whole situation worse.