BBC to scrap thousands of jobs and sell the TV centre
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), long le creme de la creme of British television has announced today it is going to make radical changes to cover a £2 billion budget shortfall.
This means axing huge numbers of staff, approximately 1800, and selling off the cherished historical home of the organisation, the Television centre.
The full story of the news is here.
While I’m not a tax payer (a recent National Insurance bill excluded), I think this news is extremely damaging to British television. Some of the main cuts will take place in key areas of the BBC, news and factual documentaries.
I seriously can’t believe this is going to happen! Paying £112 or so a year (about 35p a day) for advert-free, quality television is a bargain. If anything should go, it’s the trash on BBC Three including Little Britain and other television junk on the channel.
Furthermore, selling off the Television Centre is the limit - this has been the home of the BBC since they started transmitting back in the 1950s - who can put a price on such heritage?
Rather than cutting off the budget of such quality TV, we should be spending more on it. Why do some many people object to paying a relatively small amount of money to get hours and hours of entertainment?
February 27th, 2008 at 8:39 am
i will have to look into this more, but i disagree about BBC 3 i love it, yes theres some crap but little briton has become a classic and because of it im sure the beeb has made a nice amount