A selection of news and information about the changes facing the BBC, from Ariel, the BBC's staff newspaper.

Published 2005.

BBC defends staff bonus scheme

Ariel: 16 December

The BBC has defended its salary bonus scheme following the revelation that the corporation paid out more than £15.5m to staff in the same year it began implementing job cuts.

Manchester the key to London property reshuffle

Ariel: 8 November

Programme makers could find themselves moving to the Media Village within the next year or two, where they might be joined by staff from BBC Worldwide.

Staff must be flexible, says Thompson

Ariel: 12 October

Staff will need to be both open-minded and flexible if they are to survive at the BBC, the director general said.

Licence fee bid reflects 'gigantic' challenges

Ariel: 11 October

The BBC is being asked 'to take on a gigantic set of new challenges' in leading the country into the digital future, Mark Thompson said today.

Digital radio coverage expands

Ariel: 3 October

The BBC is expanding its digital radio network across England and Wales with nine new transmitters coming on stream within the next 12 months.

User-generated content to run 'parallel' with BBC

Ariel: 16 September

User generated content may be a BBC buzzword at the moment, but is it here to stay, and is it any good?

Digital tv reaches 63%

Ariel: 15 September

Ofcom figures show that 63 percent of UK households have digital tv.

Interactive hospital drama gets 100,000 votes

Ariel: 31 August

Almost 100,000 viewers voted by phone to save the life of one fictional patient over another last Saturday as part of the BBC's DoNation campaign.

Pandora box glimpses future

Ariel: 9 August

A video-recorder dubbed Pandora is being tested by the BBC to explore how people will watch tv in five years' time.

BBC Three broadband premier gets 35,000

Ariel: 8 August

The first episode of BBC comedy The Mighty Boosh has been viewed 35,000 times during the first week of a new broadband trial.

Broadband net access overtakes dial-up

BBC News Online: 13 July

For the first time there are more households with broadband than dial-up internet connections, according to the latest report from media regulator Ofcom

Thompson waives right to bonus

Ariel: 12 July

Mark Thompson took 'a personal decision' to waive his right to a bonus this year. He also recommended to the governors that in future all directors' bonuses will be no more than 10 percent of their salary.