https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/radio/ Behind the scenes at BBC RadioBBC Director of Audio & Music Tim Davie and his team explain their decisions, highlight changes and share important news from all of BBC radio.Sign in using your BBC ID or register to tell us what you think. en Copyright 2011 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:37:15 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.33-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <div class="imgCaptionLeft" style="float: left; "> <a title="Click to read Peter Horrocks' blog post on the Editors Blog" href="https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2011/01/painful_day.html"><img alt="Bush House in the Aldwych, London. The home of the BBC World Service." src="https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/radio/images/bushhouse.jpg" width="600" height="312" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0 20px 5px 0;" /></a><p style="width:600px;font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></p></div><p><em>Editor's note: Peter Horrocks is director of BBC World Service. This blog post, published <a href="https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2011/01/painful_day.html">on the BBC Editors Blog</a>, explains the cuts to the service announced today - SB</em></p><p>It's been a painful day for the BBC World Service and the 180 million audiences around the world. This morning I announced a fundamental restructure to the BBC World Service in order to meet the 16% savings target required by the UK government's Spending Review last October.</p><p>At the moment BBC WS is funded by Grant-in-Aid provided by the government.</p><p>BBC WS will be funded by the licence fee from April 2014.</p><p>Over the next three years, we will have to make to an annual saving of £46m by April 2014.</p><p>In all the changes announced today, the aim has been to protect the WS, its quality and reputation and, where possible, our footprint.</p><p><em>Continue reading this blog post and leave a comment <a href="https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2011/01/painful_day.html">on the BBC Editors Blog...</em></a></p><ul><li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blahflowers/2872466503/in/photostream/">Picture</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blahflowers/">Loz Flowers</a>. <a title="Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en_GB">Some rights reserved</a>.</li></ul> Peter Horrocks <$MTAuthorDisplayName$> https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/radio/2011/01/painful_day_for_bbc_world_service.html https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/radio/2011/01/painful_day_for_bbc_world_service.html World Service Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:37:15 +0000