BBC Changes

From The Guardian:
"Day of reckoning for BBC: thousands of jobs axed and Television Centre to be sold
· Staff in news and factual programming hardest hit
· Director general's plans met with union anger
Owen Gibson, media correspondent
Thursday October 18, 2007
The Guardian

The BBC Trust yesterday unanimously approved plans to cut thousands of jobs, sell off its west London headquarters and reduce the number of programmes it makes by a tenth.

The radical overhaul immediately sparked a furious backlash from staff likely to strike within weeks, with feelings running particularly high in the news and factual divisions where job losses will run into four figures.

Chairman Sir Michael Lyons said he was satisfied the package put forward by the director general, Mark Thompson, during a four-hour meeting would "safeguard the core values of the BBC at a time of radical change in technology, markets and audience expectations".

http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,,2193436,00.html