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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1776300015053Screen Shot 2026-04-16 at 8.40.01 AM.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">BBC Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland. K. Mitch Hodge, Unsplash<br/></span></span></span></div><p>LONDON, United Kingdom — The BBC said on Wednesday that the British broadcasting corporation is set to cut up to 2,000 jobs amid a challenging media landscape.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/11/11/trump-threatens-1-billion-action-as-bbc-apologizes-for-edit-error-0739">Trump threatens $1 billion action as BBC apologizes for edit error</a></div><p>The BBC&#x27;s interim director-general Rhodri Talfan Davies said in a statement to staff that &quot;while we still have to work through the detail, we anticipate the overall number of jobs will fall by 1,800-2,000&quot;.</p><p>The BBC reported the cuts on Wednesday afternoon, saying they amount to &quot;almost one in 10&quot; jobs, since it has about 21,500 employees.</p><p>The acting director-general said in a message to staff, sent to AFP, that this was because the BBC faces &quot;significant financial pressures, which we need to respond to at pace.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Put simply, the gap between our costs and our income is growing,&quot; said Talfan Davies, who has taken on the role temporarily.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/11/14/bbc-says-sorry-to-trump-but-rejects-defamation-claim-0807">BBC says sorry to Trump, but rejects defamation claim</a></div><p>&quot;Inevitably, these plans will also mean reducing the number of jobs in the BBC,&quot; he added in a message that he said followed an all-staff call.</p><p>The BBC has to cut £500 million from its operating costs of £5 billion &quot;over the next two years&quot;, the director-general said.</p><p>The BBC had previously said it has to find ways to shave 10 percent off its costs over the next three years.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>&#x27;DEVASTATING&#x27; FOR STAFF </strong></div><div><br/></div><p>The job cuts will be the biggest round of redundancies at the broadcasting corporation in almost 15 years, ITV News and The Press Association (PA) news agency reported.</p><p>In 2011, the BBC announced it would cut 2,000 jobs over the next five years and relocate some staff away from London.</p><p>Talfan Davies told BBC radio &quot;there are going to be some big and some difficult choices&quot;.</p><p>The head of the Bectu union for media workers, Philippa Childs, said &quot;cuts of this magnitude will be devastating for the workforce and to the BBC as a whole&quot;.</p><p>The general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, Laura Davison, condemned the cuts, which she said were &quot;wrong, damaging and will cause uncertainty and distress for workers at the BBC&quot;.</p><p>The job losses come as the BBC faces a turbulent media landscape, affected by AI and changing consumer habits.</p><p>The BBC is funded by the public paying for a license to view live content. It says 94 percent of UK adults use its services every month.</p><p>In a report in March the BBC said its income from the license fee had fallen 24 percent in real terms since 2017.</p><p>&quot;We must reduce our total cost base by a further 10% by March 2029 due to license fee headwinds and other pressures,&quot; the report said, warning &quot;tough choices may require cuts to content and services&quot;.</p><p>US President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster over a documentary that edited his 2021 speech ahead of the US Capitol riot, making it appear he explicitly urged supporters to attack the seat of Congress.</p><p>The BBC&#x27;s former director-general, Tim Davie, resigned over the case and left at the start of April.</p><p>A new director-general, former Google executive Matt Brittin, is due to take over at the BBC next month, with his appointment announced as leading the corporation &quot;through transformation&quot;.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse<br/></strong></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yyH605myQ_E?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p> The BBC said on Wednesday that the British broadcasting corporation is set to cut up to 2,000 jobs amid a challenging media landscape.</p>

The BBC said on Wednesday that the British broadcasting corporation is set to cut up to 2,000 jobs amid a challenging media landscape.

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BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs under 'financial pressures'

Anna Malpas,

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Published April 16, 2026 08:42 AM PHT

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