10,000 BBC staff face axe
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LONDON: Up to 10,000 BBC staff will be axed in the biggest shake-up in the history of Britain&#39;s public broadcaster. Staff were shocked and unions threatened strike action after new director-general Mark Thompson outlined the overhaul yesterday.
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The deputy leader of the train drivers' union Aslef has been sacked, the BBC has learned.
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The head of the British Broadcasting Corp. announced budget cuts Thursday that will lead to a net loss of 1,800 jobs.
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Britain's public broadcaster, the BBC, announced plans on Thursday to cut 1,800 jobs and integrate its TV, radio and Internet news operations to confront the digital-age shift away from traditional media.
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London - The British Broadcasting Corporation, the world&#39;s biggest public broadcaster, is to cut almost a quarter of its 28 000-strong workforce, in the biggest shake-up in its 82-year history, The Times newspaper in London said on Monday.
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VNU Group BV, which owns Nielsen's television ratings service, said Monday it will cut 4,000 jobs, or around 10 percent of its work force, as part of a major reorganization.
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BBC boss Mark Thompson today published his blueprint for the corporation&#39;s future, unveiling plans for the loss of around 5,000 jobs but warning the BBC needed to be financially fit to remain &quot;the greatest force for cultural good on the face of the earth
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LONDON, Dec. 7 -- The BBC, the world's largest public broadcasting company, announced plans Tuesday for some of the biggest budget cuts in its 82-year history, slashing at least 10 percent of its staff and more than $620 million in annual spending.
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LONDON The BBC, Britain&#39;s august public broadcaster, said Tuesday that it would cut 2,900 jobs as part of a &quot;transformation&quot; designed to safeguard the 82-year-old organization&#39;s future in the digital era.
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BBC staff are to strike later this month in a row over jobs and conditions, broadcasting union Bectu says.
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The BBC's plans for the next six years affect programming and jobs, with more repeats and 1,800 redundancies.
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Some BBC executives are likely to be suspended while reviews are held into fake phone-ins.
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Senior BBC executives have spent thousands of pounds on lunches, meetings and leaving dos
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One in 10 nurses and midwives is leaving the NHS, official figures have shown.
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A total of 210 posts are to be axed at BBC Scotland as part of 2,500 cuts across the UK, it is announced.
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LONDON The British Broadcasting Corporation has announced a major cost-cutting move, eliminating about 29-hundred jobs or more than a-tenth of its work force.
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The BBC is punishing too many junior staff and not enough managers over editorial breaches, a union claims.