Painful day for BBC World Service
Post categories: World Service, licence fee settlement
|18:37 PM, Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Editor's note: Peter Horrocks is director of BBC World Service. This blog post, published on the BBC Editors Blog, explains the cuts to the service announced today - SB
It's been a painful day for the BBC World Service and the 180 million audiences around the world. This morning I announced a fundamental restructure to the BBC World Service in order to meet the 16% savings target required by the UK government's Spending Review last October.
At the moment BBC WS is funded by Grant-in-Aid provided by the government.
BBC WS will be funded by the licence fee from April 2014.
Over the next three years, we will have to make to an annual saving of £46m by April 2014.
In all the changes announced today, the aim has been to protect the WS, its quality and reputation and, where possible, our footprint.
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