{"id":5136,"date":"2015-07-03T11:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2015-07-03T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:35:37","slug":"bbc-to-axe-more-than-1000-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bbc-to-axe-more-than-1000-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to axe more than 1000 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BBC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5137\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BBC.jpg\" alt=\"BBC\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced that more than 1000 employees will be laid off due to loss of income on license fees.<br \/>\nBBC Director General Tony Hall said a gap of \u00a3150 million ($234.2 milllion) in the corporation\u2019s license fee income forced them to take the decision.<br \/>\nHall underlined that the number of households claiming that \u2018they do not watch live TV\u2019 and who therefore do not pay the license has increased substantially, forcing the BBC to find a way to cut down expenses.<br \/>\nHall also said the BBC was saving \u00a31.5 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) every year already, but more cuts had to be introduced.<br \/>\nProfessional and support areas will see the most cuts, and savings in the amount of \u00a350 million ($78 million) can be achieved, according to Hall.<br \/>\nAny household having a TV set has to pay \u00a3145.50 pounds ($225) per year under British licensing regulations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bbc-to-axe-more-than-1000-jobs\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced that more than 1000 employees will be laid off due to loss of income on license fees. BBC Director General Tony Hall said a gap of \u00a3150 million ($234.2 milllion) in the corporation\u2019s license fee income forced them to take the decision. Hall underlined that the number of households &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}