Where should the BBC cut costs?

They over staff BBC Local Radio.

which areas of local radio staffing do you think are inappropriately high?

Off-air daytime staff, having said this BBC Hereford and Worcester was very useful on a Saturday night a few months ago when we had a town wide power cut in Redditch and even Suzzane Verdie phoned in to say her power was back on. This is when BBC Local Radio comes into its own. I do belive BBC Local Radio is needed a serves a great purpose, but I think they could cut the staff.

which off air daytime staff?

your spelling suggests that you are not of working age, and most probably have no idea what you are talking about.

Jonathan Ross and a few other highly paid presenters springs to mind. Cutting their salaries to something more sensible would reduce costs.

By almost nothing when you consider the budget for the programme as a whole.

Yeah right!

Local Radio (and regional TV to a lesser extent) are very under-staffed and under-resourced. They are run on a shoestring.

There are some areas where they can quite easily cut costs without effecting programming.... becaus ethose departments don't make any programming!

Of course. The closing down of the entire marketing department for one, or at least scaling them back and limiting their activities only to off-air promotion of BBC services and programmes. And the sack for Clare Wildey.

Failing that, less lavish trails/promotions and those that remain voiced by the usual CAs instead of actors with trendy voices. More input from the CAs such as programme menus and slides.

That should at least mean a few less wage packets having to be paid...while earlier "bedtimes" for BBC2, and startup put back to 7am, would cut both repeats and transmission expenses.

They do not need to children's channels. They should just mix them into one: BBC Kids

The marketing dept seems to be far too large. It could certainly do with having its budget cut.

I also agree with axing BBC3. it's hopeless in its current form, it should be rejigged into a repeats channel with the good shows being moved to BBC2 where they belong.

The website needs a wholesale review too. The amount of bandwidth it must waste with badly coded inefficent pages is frightening.

Finally BBCi. That really needs something done about it. Cut it back to only showing real stuff. It's good for showing Radio 1 concerts and extra wimbledon matches but there is so much utter garbage pretending to be interactive its frightening. Plus axe support for the ITV digital boxes. That should save a bob or two.

Preferably one that teaches children two spel.

With BBC Three gone, there would either be twelve hours of empty bandwidth, or a children's channel which could easily be sacrificed.