[arista]

Even Tech Team moving to Scotland.

Thats crazy.

Not announced today by the sneaky CEO
all the Big Job Cuts.


https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...outside-london


[The BBC has pledged to relocate 400
jobs outside London, as it faces a battle
to secure a future funding settlement
from a government that wants to
redistribute spending around of the UK.
The corporation’s director general, Tim Davie,
announced the changes to staff
on Thursday morning,
saying the corporation had
to prove its value to audiences across
the UK by producing programmes closer
to where they lived and spending
more money outside the capital.

Among the changes are:
Specialist journalism teams covering topics such as the
environment, technology, and education will be relocated
from London to new bases in Leeds,
Cardiff, Glasgow, and Birmingham.

Daytime programmes on Radio 1, Radio 2,
and 1Xtra will be hosted from elsewhere in the UK.

The BBC will launch two new long-running
drama series to represent life outside the capital,
one set in the north of England and one in a devolved nation.
Radio 3’s leadership team will move to Salford,
with most of 6 Music’s staff to follow.

A third of Radio 4’s Today programme episodes
will be co-presented from outside London,
with Newsnight and Radio 4’s PM also moved outside
the capital on a regular basis.

The corporation has pledged to
increase the proportion of its television
budget spent outside London from 50% to 60% by 2028.

One of the biggest challenges for the BBC
will be convincing existing
big-name presenters and top executives to
move to the new locations,
rather than simply commuting from London.
The BBC confirmed that all of the corporation’s
existing London-based executive board members
are expected to remain based in the capital.]