The BBC is to close a range of its small regional satellite offices as component of cost-slicing actions.
Up to 20 places will be shut in sites like Scarborough, Blackpool, Canterbury, Grimsby and Portsmouth.
The BBC claimed they ended up “very little, usually unstaffed sites”, and that the closures would not have an affect on its 39 regional radio stations.
“Closing them will conserve cash at a time when the BBC faces sizeable financial pressures,” a spokesman explained.
The offices are generally applied to file stories or carry out interviews remotely, but the increase of video clip apps has meant that is increasingly unnecessary. There will be no position losses.
New technologies
A spokesman mentioned: “We have 39 broadcast bases across England. These web sites are supported by a number of incredibly modest, normally unstaffed web sites in nearby places.
“New technological know-how means these lesser websites are no lengthier desired.”
He additional that “our products and services in those people spots will not change”.
BBC director standard Tony Corridor just lately mentioned the corporation will will need to preserve £125m this yr, partly mainly because of economic pressures ensuing from the coronavirus pandemic.
The organisation has suspended ideas to lower 450 jobs because of to the demands of masking the crisis.
