LONDON BBC director general Mark Thompson said the company would have to achieve cost savings of $580 million over the next three years — in addition to the $760 million cut in recent years. He pledged to “partner and collaborate” with struggling commercial broadcasters.
His comments come as politicians and broadcasting executives have questioned the BBC’s guaranteed $5.1 billion annual license fee income at a time when commercial rivals are seeing their own income drastically reduced.
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