BBC To Set Out Scale Of Cuts To TV, Radio & Online Over Coming Months Before Enacting 2,000 Layoffs, Director General Says

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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

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