THE BBC will broadcast 1,000 fewer hours of recent TV programmes this yr – however there will likely be no reduce within the licence charge.
About half of the 1,000-hour reduce will come from sport, with no Commonwealth Video games or males’s soccer World Cup, as there was in 2022.
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The opposite 500 hours will come from totally different areas together with BBC 4, which the company introduced a yr in the past would change into “the house of each the BBC’s wealthy archive and humanities & music performances”.
On this yr’s plan, the BBC mentioned its technique would come with specializing in “extra distinctive, high-impact content material”.
The Company should discover £400million in yearly financial savings by 2027/28, in keeping with its annual plan printed yesterday.
It mentioned the present £159 TV licence value freeze “continues to put important monetary challenges on the BBC at a time of excessive inflation and media super-inflation”.
The company mentioned it was at the moment “spending extra on, and commissioning extra hours of, UK-originated TV content material than some other organisation”.
It made 12,500 “originated hours” in 2022.
