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...Thursday in the English seaside town of Whitehaven, a transmitter tower that had broadcast British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programs to analog television sets since the 1950s switched off. The abrupt blackening was the first part of a nationwide program to make British television entirely digital...
...hours later, staff at the BBC felt another effect of this sea change in broadcasting, as the broadcaster announced plans to cut 1,800 jobs, sell its iconic London headquarters and reduce the number of original programs it makes by 10% in an effort to fund the move to digital and create an integrated, multi-media news service...
...what The Guardian newspaper is calling a "day of reckoning" for British broadcasting, a rival network to the BBC, ITV, revealed Thursday the results of an independent inquiry that found it had made $15.8 million from bogus interactive competitions in which contestants were charged despite having no chance of winning. (The network pledged to compensate more than 8 million viewers. The BBC has also come under criticism for 11 cases of rigged or prerecorded contests earlier this year...
...email to staff, BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said the job cuts - part of a six-year reform plan to cover a $4.8 billion funding shortfall - would be achieved primarily by integrating existing programming. Currently, separate journalists and producers from various radio and television stations often cover the same topic. BBC employees will soon be required to work across all media to help reduce this duplication. The BBC will close 2,500 job posts in the next six years while creating 700 posts, resulting in a net loss of 1,800 staff...
...Defending the cuts, Thompson said they were necessary to prevent the BBC from "drifting steadily into irrelevance". Thompson said the BBC also plans to sell its Television Center in west London, which has been the production hub of the 85-year-old pillar of British society since the 1960s. It will also begin accepting advertising on its hugely popular website, bbc.com...