Programme makers at the BBC will be told today where the axe is to fall on an expected 1,500 job losses, as director general Mark Thompson announces the next round of cutbacks.
Programme makers at the BBC will be told today where the axe is to fall on an expected 1,500 job losses, as director general Mark Thompson announces the next round of cutbacks.

The cuts will hit workers in key output divisions including television, radio, news and children's, as department heads slash 15% off their budgets. The losses are part of a drive to save£355m over the next three years.

Today's announcement is expected to reveal how many staff each department will lose, but individual workers may have to wait another month for more detailed information on exactly where the cuts will take effect.

Last week support staff were told 1,730 jobs would be axed, and Thompson sparked bad feeling by using a video message to explain the losses.

One senior employee described the film as "appalling" and told the BBC's in-house magazine Ariel"a series of senior managers explaining why our jobs are now superfluous but reassuring us we are not being sacrificed in vain. That will make us all feel so much better paying the licence fee when we're unemployed."