The
BBC will eliminate 550 roles and cut spending by £80 million as part of the “first phase” of new director-general
Matt Brittin’s savings plan, the BBC’s
Alex Kleiderman reported yesterday. The job cuts, expected by next April, will include 200 roles at BBC News. Other proposed cuts include “ending
Radio 4’s ‘
The World Tonight,’ and reducing the number of permanent presenters on ‘
Today’ from five to four from September, with a single anchor on Saturdays,” Kleiderman reports…