BBC News: Huge cuts to output

- Redundancies include regional domestic and international correspondents.
- Sport and Business bulletins on channel to be axed.
- Fewer features and outside broadcasts
- Strike action almost inevitable

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/bbc/bbc-news-outlines-dqf-cuts/5028648.article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/10/bbc-news-world-service-jobs

BBC are going the same way as ITV and will cut English local news back?

Good, look at bbc scotland its utter pure yet STV news which is smaller, cheaper etc is far better!

They're just proposals. The BBC Trust has rejected wide sweeping ideas before. But it would be lundicrous if this did happen, and I think the proposal would damage both the BBC News service and brand.

I think you missed the most important part of this "news"

"A BBC spokesman said: “We are not going to get drawn into a running commentary - no decisions have been taken and therefore these claims remain speculation. Any decisions coming out of the process would be subject to approval by the BBC Trust.”

As things currently stand the news channel must cover business and sport every hour



http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/regulatory_framework/service_licences/tv/2010/bbc_news_channel_may10.pdf

I can see a case for getting the main presenters to read the business and sports news, saving on separate presenters, with specialist correspondents, who already exist, reporting as The Guardian suggests, but I think it worth being clear that the content currently can't be axed without breaking the news channel's license, and that sport and business will still covered in some format.

I wonder if this is related in any way to a tweet from Mike Embley where he mentions the possibility of "more big changes to come in Autumn".

Edit: ignore that. He was referring to presenter shuffles only.