BBC in trouble
Oct 17, 2007 in Media
Stories like this make me want to hyperventilate. It turns out the BBC is facing a really stark funding crisis.
The Telegraph reports The Thirteenth Floor video that “2,000 employees — almost a tenth of the workforce — will be sacked in an attempt to find £2 billion in budget cuts. “
Let’s put this in context. The CBC’s annual budget is about $1.3-billion…. sooo the BBC is being asked to make budget cuts that are approximately 2.5 times the size of the CBC’s annual budget. Where’s my paper bag.
Shine Worse, now employees are threatening to strike. And I don’t blame them.