Significant funding and job cuts, multiple crises and “persistent attacks from the press” have left BBC staff feeling “beleaguered,” according to BBC Chair Richard Sharp. De…
Delivering a keynote at today’s Voice of the Listener & Viewer conference, Sharp also warned “there will be consequences” on programme budgets if the licence fee stops rising with inflation from next year, with genres that are less commercial such as local news likely to take the hit.
Questioned by Deadline on his comment that BBC staff are feeling “a bit beleaguered,” Sharp spoke candidly: “We’ve had to take significant financial and job cuts over the past years which creates a slightly negative attitude internally. In addition, we’ve lurched from one crisis to another over a period of time which hasn’t reflected well on the people of the BBC. Then in addition we’ve had persistent attacks from the press.
The most recent “crisis” he was referring to was the Royal Family’s criticism and frustration at not being given right of reply to Monday’s BBC2 documentary, with reports emerging this morning that Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Christmas concert will now take place on ITV rather than the BBC. In a rare joint statement yesterday, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and Clarence House said “overblown and unfounded claims from unknown sources” had been presented as facts in the doc, lending them credibility by the BBC. The criticism comes just a few months after the“I felt [the doc] demonstrated enormous sympathy for the people in the crosshairs of public scrutiny, and the appalling behaviour of the media as a whole,” he added.
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