BBC World Service to face serious cuts
In October 201o it was announced by the UK Government that the BBC would be facing serious cuts.
As a result, the BBC World Service will be carrying out a fundamental restructure in order to meet the 16 per cent savings target required by the Government’s Spending Review.
What exactly this means was announced in a BBC press release, published in late January 2011.
The changes include:
- five full language service closures;
- the end of radio programmes in seven languages, focusing those services on online and new media content and distribution; and
- a phased reduction from most short wave and medium wave distribution of remaining radio services.
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