BBC Plans 2,000 Layoffs In Major Cost-Cutting Drive
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By Jake Kanter
Published on April 15, 2026.
The BBC is planning to make up to 2,000 job cuts in one of its most aggressive cost-cutting efforts yet. The job cuts, which represent roughly one in 10 members of staff across the BBC's licence fee-funded and commercial operations, will be announced in an all-staff call led by Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC’s interim director general; CFO Bérangère Michel; and John Curbishley, the corporation’�s chief strategy and transformation officer. This comes after the BBC announced plans to reduce its cost base by £500M ($675M) over the next three years, expanding on an existing target of £1.5B.
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