BBC sport and online news to be cut as Red Button services face axe

• Spending on athletics and minority sports is to be cut by the BBC, with its Red Button services also facing the axe,
• the corporation aims to save £150m a year before its final round of budget negotiations with the government.
• The broadcaster will cut online news and make savings in overheads as it deals with a funding shortfall, but it has promised to protect spending on drama

The BBCThe corporation has struggled to compete for live sports rights against well-financed rivals Sky and BT, leaving many to fear the future of free-to-air sports broadcasting.The corporation has already guaranteed the survival of some of its most popular sports programming, including Match of the Day and Wimbledon. However, in June, it lost control of the rights to the Olympic Games from 2022 on wards, after US broadcaster Discovery, the owner of Euro sport, made a £920m offer for exclusive pan-European rights.This year, it lost the rights to the Open Golf Championship to Sky, bringing to an end 61 years of providing live coverage of the event.So BBC are losing are large amount of their core audience as people enjoy BBC live coverage of supports as it very well presented and doesn't go on break.