12/24/2022 0 Comments Today bbc news![]() ![]() The southern African country's politics have been marred by coup plots, infighting within parties and floor-crossing which has often led to unstable coalition governments. Partial results from Friday's parliamentary election in Lesotho show that a recently founded party led by millionaire diamond magnate Sam Matekane is on course to get the largest number of seats. On Wednesday GB News appeared to be gearing up to fill domestic news gaps the new BBC News might leave, with a shake-up of its daytime schedule to focus more on rolling news, with the departure of some presenters and new programmes GB Newsday and GB News Live.Reuters Copyright: Reuters Sam Matekane founded the Revolution For Prosperity party in March Image caption: Sam Matekane founded the Revolution For Prosperity party in March O’Grady also said the arrival of new rival services such as GB News and Rupert Murdoch’s Talk TV “makes it even more important that the BBC continues to provide a national service of high-quality, impartial reporting”. She said the TUC “appreciate the pressures” the BBC is under due to the licence fee being frozen but said “high-quality news coverage is at the very heart of the BBC’s most important public service duties” and is “vital” to the “quality of UK media UK democracy”. The plans appear likely to further these trends, with limited resources for sourcing stories from communities and workplaces, for investigative journalism, and for specialist correspondents.” The TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady said in her letter to Davie: “News reporting is already increasingly desk-based, and news content increasingly filled with interviews with guests with a political agenda. However, one insider claimed a BBC senior manager told staff there is “low ambition” for UK breaking news and questioned why, as management admit channels are being closed, regulator Ofcom is not stepping in. ![]() ![]() The new BBC News will show news for international and British audiences, with adverts only shown abroad and a UK “opt out” stream to cover big domestic stories, using reporters and a breaking news team, that will simulcast BBC Breakfast, BBC One bulletins, Newsnight and a visual version of Radio 5 live presenter Nicky Campbell’s show.Ī BBC spokesperson said: “Our teams are rightly proud of the work they’re doing, and times of change are always difficult, but we need to ensure better value for licence fee payers and stop the duplication that currently exists with two parallel channels.” The proposed BBC channel closures and subsequent loss of 70 jobs form part of a £500m cost-cutting and redistribution mission by Davie to create a “digital-first” organisation and help achieve cuts of £285m a year necessitated by the government freezing the licence fee for two years.ĭavie is due to visit news channel staff on Friday but corporation insiders are concerned the director general does not realise the on-screen impact of the proposals. It echoes fears of some BBC union members who have taken part in a consultative ballot that resulted in a vote in favour of industrial action.Īccording to sources there was a strong turnout for the vote, which could now lead to a full ballot – a potential threat to the BBC’s coverage of its 100th anniversary in October. ![]() The Guardian has learned that the leader of the Trades Union Congress has written to BBC director general Tim Davie to express concerns that closing the existing BBC News channel “would substantially reduce newsgathering and airtime for domestic stories” and affect UK democracy. ![]()
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