The Thai service will move to Bangkok, the Korean service to Seoul and the Bangla service to Dhaka. No language services will close, the broadcaster insisted, although some products will move out of London and schedules would change. Radio services in Arabic, Persian, Kyrgyz, Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian, Tamil and Urdu will stop if the proposals are approved by staff and unions.
Under the restructuring plans, they will be joined by seven more: Chinese, Gujarati, Igbo, Indonesian, Pidgin, Urdu and Yoruba. "Today's proposals entail a net total of around 382 post closures," the public service broadcaster said in an online statement.Įleven language services - Azerbaijani, Brasil, Marathi, Mundo, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese - are already digital only. In July the broadcaster detailed plans to merge BBC World News television and its domestic UK equivalent into a single channel to launch in April next year.īBC World Service - one of the UK's most recognisable global brands - currently operates in 41 languages around the world with a weekly audience of some 364 million people.īut the corporation said audience habits were changing and more people were accessing news online, which along with a freeze on BBC funding and increased operating costs meant a move to "digital-first" made financial sense. The BBC, which marks its centenary next month, said its international services needed to make savings of £28.5 million (USD 31 million) as part of wider reductions of £500 million, which unions blamed on the UK government.
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