The BBC will in the coming months set out how it plans to cut back on TV, radio and online following today’s brutal announcement of 2,000 layoffs.
Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC’s interim Director General, just said on Radio 4’s The Media Show that the corporation will “make sure changes are consistent with the direction of travel” of audiences who are migrating to social media and online.
He therefore raised the spectre of the BBC cutting back on more traditional linear services. More info will emerge between July and September, Talfan Davies said, at which point the next DG, former Google Europe boss Matt Brittin, will have taken over. The layoffs will take place from September.
“This is really difficult news for staff,” he said of the brutal cuts, estimated to be the BBC’s biggest for over a decade as it looks to save £500M
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