Saturday 7 November 2015

BBC shelves plans to shut news channel

Corporation review into cost benefits of making channel online-only understood to show savings would only have been around £16m a year 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/06/bbc-shelves-plans-to-shut-news-channel

BBC newsroom

  • The BBC is understood to have shelved plans to potentially shut its 24-hour news channel.
  • The corporation has been exploring plans to make the BBC News TV channel online-only
  •  replacing it with a mobile streaming service if further cuts need to be made. 
  • The total costs associated with running the channel are in excess of £110m a year, including production, news gathering, content, distribution and infrastructure.
  • it is understood a review of the cost benefits of closing the TV channel found that it was likely to only save perhaps £15m to £16m annually, not as big a saving as expected.
Overall the change is trying to adapt to new digital media as everyone uses their phone for everything and so its more convenient for them.As people don't have time to watch the 24 hour news channel let along the 6 o'clock  or 10 o'clock. Also the change would save around 15m or 16m so that's a good start and the change is adapting to the new age people can stream it on their work to work or even coming home from school or work.

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