Under the proposal, the Chinese, Gujarati, Igbo, Indonesian, West African Pidgin English, Urdu, and Yoruba language services will move to digital-only, joining the digital-only Azerbaijani, Brazilian Portuguese, Marathi, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese language services, as well as the Spanish-language BBC Mundo service. Across its operations, the BCC is looking to save £500 million annually (about $554 million)Īlthough, the announcement stated that no language services would close, elimination of some TV and radio programs was included, including Arabic, Persian, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian, Tamil, and Urdu radio services. Bbc news pidgin license#The cost-savings were necessitated, in large part, by the British government decision to freeze the license fee that has supported the BBC since 1923. Just over 380 positions will be eliminated with the changes. The moves are driven, in part, by a need to cut the World Service’s expenses by £28.5 million (about $31.5 million), which is about 10 percent of its annual budget. BBC World Service Director Liliane Landor 29) plans to shift seven additional language services to digital-only platforms, move some operations away from London, and consolidate other activities. BBC plans to streamline its services with a “digital-led” strategy have reached the British broadcaster’s international services.īBC World Service Director Liliane Landor announced today (Sept.
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