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Just 69 percent of viewing by British adults was now through live TV and among 16- to 24-year-olds only 50 percent of viewing was done through live TV, the country’s telecoms regulator said.
Lord Hall said he recognized “this is a tough message” but the BBC was facing “difficult choices” because of the tough financial climate. It also plans to cut layers of senior and middle management.
The jobs are mainly going in professional and support services amid moves to cut back on duplication of roles.
“A simpler, leaner, BBC is the right thing to do and it can also help us meet the financial challenges we face”, Tony Hall, director general of the BBC, told staff here.
“We’ve already considerably cut the prices of operating the BBC, however in occasions of very robust decisions we have to concentrate on what actually issues – delivering excellent programmes and content material for all our audiences”.
The BBC said the changes to the structure and organisation would make it “simpler, leaner and more effective”.
Previous savings will have already cut £1.5bn a year in costs by 2017.
No figures were available last night for how the cuts will affect BBC Scotland and its output, but unions representing staff at Pacific Quay, Bectu and the National Union of Journalists, said they would resist compulsory redundancies.
The Corporation said that the deficit, expected from 2016/17, had been caused by fewer people owning televisions and more people watching content online and on mobile devices instead.
Some Britons have discarded their televisions – the main source of home viewing for half a century – in favour of tablets which many younger people use to watch programmes over a wireless Internet connection.
The news release says the drop in fees “provides further evidence of the need for the license fee to be modernized to cover digital services”. The new measures being proposed deliver GBP 50 million in savings from merging divisions, cutting down management layers, reducing managers and improving processes.
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The broadcaster’s technology department is one of the areas where savings are expected to be made, with tech teams across digital, engineering and worldwide set to be joined up.
