menuMENU    UK Free TV logo News

 

 

Click to see updates

Read this: Mark Thompson says the BBC will have to make at least 300m of savings | Media | The Guardian

Summary: Outside Mark Thompson's top-floor west London office is a single sheet of A4 paper, framed. On it are a set of financial projections for the BBC from now until 2017, annotated with Thompson's spidery handwriting with names such as George Osborne scrawled on it, and numbers adjusted and crossed out. It is that piece of paper the 53-year-old director general took with him six weeks ago for a frantic few hours of negotiation that produced the toughest licence fee settlement for a generation a deal with the coalition government that leaves the licence fee flat at 145.50 a 16 cut in real terms and a national broadcaster uncertain about its future. - guardian.co.uk

www.guardian.co.uk link iconwww.guardian.co.uk

Mark Thompson says the BBC will have to …



Transcriptions done by Google Cloud Platform.

Lots more recommendations to read at Trends - ukfree.tv.
Summaries are done by Clipped-Your articles and documents summarized.

Comments

Your comment please
Please post a question, answer or commentUK Free TV is here to help people. If you are rude or disrespectful all of your posts will be deleted and you will be banned.







Privacy policy: UK Free Privacy policy.