{"id":533108,"date":"2026-04-15T23:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:46:14","slug":"bbc-to-cut-up-to-2000-jobs-in-savings-push-radiotoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533108\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs in savings push \u2013 RadioToday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a itemprop=\"url\" class=\"kdafxujcge-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/aiirjune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kdafxujcge-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RTUKPackageDeal2.webp.webp\" alt=\"Aiir June 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up to 2,000 roles are set to go at the BBC as it looks to close a widening gap between costs and income.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/WiseBuddah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RadioToday-Small-Image-150x150-1.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The corporation says it must find an extra \u00a3500 million in savings over the next two years, on top of existing cost-cutting plans, from a total annual operating budget of \u00a35 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to staff, Rhodri Talfan Davies said the organisation is under sustained financial pressure from high production costs, a constrained licence fee, and wider economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate measures include tighter controls on recruitment and travel, reduced use of management consultants, and cuts to spending on conferences, awards and events.<\/p>\n<p>Divisions across the BBC are now working on plans for the 2027\/28 financial year, including identifying duplication, stopping some activity, and prioritising content and services with the greatest audience impact.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodri said: \u201cWe anticipate that the overall number of jobs will fall by 1,800\u20132,000\u2026 we wanted to be open about the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further detail on how individual divisions will be affected is expected by September, with the majority of savings scheduled to take effect from 2027 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>The latest move follows a series of restructuring programmes across the BBC in recent years, as it continues to adapt to changing audience habits and financial pressures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to 2,000 roles are set to go at the BBC as it looks to close a widening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}