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BBC makes first round of major savings in professional services:
(10 March 05)
The BBC today announced that the first round of plans to transform the
organisation will release £139m a year by 2008 to reinvest in to programs.
The savings are part of Director-General Mark Thompson's vision to ensure
the BBC can meet rapidly changing audience expectations by developing a
bold content strategy, transforming itself into a state-of-the-art digital
broadcaster and becoming much simpler in its operations and business processes.
The first changes have come from the BBC's Professional Services which
include: Strategy & Distribution; Policy & Legal; Finance, Property &
Business Affairs; BBC People (HR) and Marketing, Communications &
Audiences. Overall, including savings from better procurement, these
divisions will collectively be saving £139m a year by 2007/08 which will be
reinvested in to programs.
There will be a 46% reduction in headcount 980 posts will close, some
through staff turnover, others through redundancy and 750 posts are planned
to be outsourced. Mr Thompson told senior staff that the BBC Governors had
endorsed the plans but would consider these and further savings plans from
the content and output divisions as a whole at their meeting next week
before giving final approvals.
Overall, costs savings across the BBC are higher than anticipated at £355m,
compared to the £320m target. He said: "In December I talked about the
creative prize for the BBC and our audiences but the cost is nothing short
of transformation. "We have made a strong start, showing we are serious
about change and ensuring we are maximising the value of our income for
audiences' benefit. "We need to make the BBC a simpler, more agile
operation, ready to take the creative lead in a very different, very
challenging digital future."
The announcements come a week after publication of the Government's Green
paper on the BBC's Charter, which Secretary of State Tessa Jowell described
as a "blueprint for a strong, independent BBC". On Monday, the BBC also
announced an extensive cross-media, audience-focused Creative Future
project that will produce a ambitious editorial plan for BBC programs,
content and services over the next Charter period. (BBC Press Release)
Korean Broadcasting System Opens New Audience Plaza:
KBS has dedicated the Audience Plaza on March 2 in the lobby of KBS? Main
Building.
The new open space is equipped with digital broadcast facilities to help
visiting audiences learn and experience what KBS is doing for the public.
Also inside the Plaza is a stage for a variety of events including those
for broadcast purposes. Other facilities include a conference room, meeting
space for visitors and coffee shop. As part of the improvement of audience
services, KBS has begun operating its new Open Radio Studios also in the
entrance of the Main Building. (What?s on KBS, Feb-2005)
UNESCO to aid Aceh broadcasters:
(11 March 05)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation,
UNESCO, is to give US$500,000 to broadcasters in the tsunami-devastated
Indonesian province of Aceh to get their stations back up and running. The
eight-member bureau of a UNESCO communications development program met this
week and voted to provide the money to broadcasters in the province.
Seventeen other projects in Asia and the Pacific will receive a total of
$293,000 from UNESCO's International Program for the Development of
Communication (IPDC) from funds provided by voluntary donors. The IPDC
comprises an intergovernmental council of 39 member states, elected by
UNESCO's General Conference and scheduled to meet every two years, and a
bureau of eight member states nominated by the council. The bureau meets
annually to appraise proposals and allocate funding for media projects.
Last year it granted $1.84 million to 66 projects. (ABU Latest News)
Call for more funding for Radio Australia:
(10 March 05)
Australia's opposition Labor Party has called for more funding for the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation's international service, Radio
Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported.
Labor's foreign affairs spokesman, Kevin Rudd, said the government should
reverse funding cuts for the service so that it could reach more people in
Indonesia. He said there was not enough awareness in Indonesia about the
scale of Australia's aid contribution in the wake of the tsunami on 26
December. This could be improved by strengthening Radio Australia's signal.
"It is impossible now to get a strong signal to the western part of the
Indonesian archipelago and that includes Sumatra and that includes Aceh,"
he said. "We have very limited capacity to get a shortwave message out to
the 230 million people of Indonesia so that they know, through their own
language, what we in Australia are doing." The Australian government plans
to provide nearly US$900 million to help Indonesia recover from the
tsunami. The package will focus on rebuilding Aceh, the worst-hit region.
(ABU Latest News)
Doordarshan channel set for new look :
(09 March 05)
India's public broadcaster Doordarshan is all set to change the content,
look and format of its Chandana channel for greater appeal, according to
its Director, Mahesh Joshi. The changes include bringing back popular shows
as well as increasing the frequency of their telecasts, reports The Hindu
newspaper.
Mega serials and daily soap operas will also be lined up and the
infotainment content covering science and technology, medicine, health,
public grievances, current events and employment news is set to increase as
well. Also, seven news bulletins and programmes telecast during the day
will feature events within two hours of their occurrence. Mr Joshi said
viewers' letters had inspired the makeover. (ABU Latest News)
Best Regards,
MD. AZIZUL ALAM AL-AMIN
GOURHANGA, GHORAMARA
RAJSHAHI-6100
BANGLADESH
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