{"id":1003230,"date":"2026-04-16T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003230"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:59:27","slug":"bbc-plans-to-cut-2000-jobs-to-reduce-costs-by-about-10-over-next-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/bbc-plans-to-cut-2000-jobs-to-reduce-costs-by-about-10-over-next-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC plans to cut 2,000 jobs to reduce costs by about 10% over next 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC said Wednesday that it plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs to save 10% of its annual budget &#8211; 500 million pounds ($677 million) &#8211; over the next two years. <\/p>\n<p>The layoffs announced during a call with staff are the biggest in more than a decade at the U.K. national broadcaster. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know this creates real uncertainty, but we wanted to be open about the challenge,&#8221; interim Director-General Rhodri Talfan Davies said in a staff email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC said Wednesday that it plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs to save 10% of its annual budget &#8211; 500 million pounds ($677 million) &#8211; over the next two years. The layoffs announced during a call with staff are the biggest in more than a decade at the U.K. national broadcaster. &#8220;I know this creates real uncertainty, but we wanted to be open about the challenge,&#8221; interim Director-General Rhodri Talfan Davies said in a staff email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}