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BBC Sandeshaya survives World Service cull |
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2011-01-27 |
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The BBC Sinhala and Tamil services have emerged as two of the few winners of the job cuts announced by the World Service management. The World Service announced on Wednesday that it will terminate five language services namely the Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian, Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa. Although no job cuts are announced, BBC Sandeshaya and the Tamil Services are asked to save ten percent of its budgets within the next few years. It is still not clear how these savings will be achieved.
The World Service is also to close Russian, Azeri, Mandarin, Spanish for Cuba, Turkish, Vietnamese and Ukrainian language radio operations. Although the World |
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Service has initially planned to cut 13 language services, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he refused to grant permission for the cuts. Overall, the BBC is to cut 650 jobs out of 2400 in the World Service within the next three years. As a result, the BBC expects its global audience of 180 million listeners will be dropped to 150 million. |
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