{"id":42113,"date":"2020-02-22T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42113"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:49:59","slug":"sky-news-bbc-could-be-forced-to-sell-radio-stations-in-massive-pruning-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/sky-news-bbc-could-be-forced-to-sell-radio-stations-in-massive-pruning-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky News: “BBC could be forced to sell radio stations in ‘massive pruning back'”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Sky News<\/a> via Dan Van Hoy)<\/p>\n

The number of TV channels could also be reduced, the website scaled back and stars banned from taking well-paid second jobs.<\/p>\n

[…]The Sunday Times quoted a senior Downing Street source as saying that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “really strident” on the need for serious reform at the national broadcaster.<\/p>\n

The number of TV channels could be reduced, the website scaled back and stars banned from taking well-paid second jobs, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n

There will also be a consultation on replacing the licence fee with a subscription model, the source said, adding: “We are not bluffing on the licence fee.<\/p>\n

“We are having a consultation and we will whack it. It has got to be a subscription model.<\/p>\n

“They’ve got hundreds of radio stations, they’ve got all these TV stations and a massive website. The whole thing needs massive pruning back.<\/p>\n

“They should have a few TV stations, a couple of radio stations and massively curtailed online presence and put more money and effort into the World Service which is part of its core job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article at Sky News.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Sky News via Dan Van Hoy) The number of TV channels could also be reduced, the website scaled back and stars banned from taking well-paid second jobs. […]The Sunday Times quoted a senior Downing Street source as saying that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “really strident” on the need for serious reform at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[104,327,6546,1768],"class_list":["post-42113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-dan-van-hoy","tag-sky-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aXf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54942,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/online-only-bbc-prepares-to-shut-down-radio-and-tv-broadcast-over-next-decade\/","url_meta":{"origin":42113,"position":0},"title":"Online-Only: BBC prepares to shut down radio and TV broadcast over next decade","author":"Thomas","date":"December 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: The Guardian via Mark Fahey) BBC preparing to go online-only over next decade, says director general Tim Davie outlines vision for a world of \u2018infinite choice\u2019 where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off The BBC is preparing to shut down its traditional television and radio broadcasts as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/CC-Skywave-Midwinter-Antarctica.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19993,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/bbc-to-cut-monitoring-jobs\/","url_meta":{"origin":42113,"position":1},"title":"BBC to cut monitoring jobs","author":"Thomas","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: The Guardian) The BBC is cutting almost 100 jobs from its monitoring service as part of a drive to save \u00a34m from the unit\u2019s \u00a313.2m budget by April next year. 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