There are times when seismic decisions or events come along and make me really stop and think. Today was one such event. The Director of BBC Radio Helen Boaden made an announcement to us all of the financial savings the Corporation still needs to make to reduce its cash deficit. Principle of which is around a 15% reduction in the workforce by 2017. As she pointed out after savings, the BBC will still have £260 million a year to make the best radio programmes in the World. Many independent radio stations would be doing handstands if they had this level of income stream coming in. I love radio as it is intelligent, intuitive but above all intimate, just the voice and the listener. Money to make programme is always tights, budgets minute compared to TV, but we all are passionate about our craft. Only time will tell if at the end of this process the BBC Radio network will be Smaller, Simpler but above all Still Brilliant at producing world class BBC Radio programmes. I have my fingers crossed.
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