BBC Plans to Cut Staff by 10 Percent
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The BBC, the world&#39;s largest public broadcasting company, announced plans on Tuesday for some of the biggest budget cuts in its 82-year history, slashing at least 10 percent of its staff and more than $550 million.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- The state-funded British Broadcasting Corp. said Tuesday it would eliminate close to 2,900 jobs, mainly in administration, hoping to achieve annual savings of 320 million pounds ($624 million) within three years.
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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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The BBC said it would eliminate 2,900 jobs, or more than 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a cost-saving "transformation" of the world's biggest and best-known public broadcaster.
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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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Britain's public broadcaster, the BBC, announced one of the biggest shake-ups in its 82-year history Tuesday, with plans to axe at least 2,900 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, and trim &#36;624 million in costs.
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The BBC today confirmed plans to axe 2,900 jobs over the next three years under moves to make savings of Â£320 million. In a special message to staff, director general Mark Thompson said
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BBC employees were waiting on Thursday to learn how many jobs will be lost under plans to streamline the corporation.
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Information provider VNU  said on Monday it planned to cut 4,000 positions and shave 10 percent from its cost base next year.
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Intel, the world's largest computer chip manufacturer, will cut 10,500 jobs, or about 10% of its total staff.
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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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SBC Communications (SBC) will cut 10,000 jobs from its workforce through the end of 2005 using attrition and involuntary cuts, the company said in a filing with US market regulators on Friday.
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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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Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, has announced sweeping changes to the corporation including savings of Â£320m and thousands of job cuts for a more enhanced national broadcaster.
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Ex-BBC director general Greg Dyke says cutting thousands of jobs at the corporation will be "debilitating".
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BBC boss Mark Thompson says the corporation must keep up with change, after announcing nearly 3,000 job cuts.
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Broadcasting Unions demanded on Friday that the BBC drop plans to cut 1,800 jobs or face strike action.