BBC News to close Hardtalk, Click and Asian Network news service in latest round of 185 job cuts
The Asian Network will lose its bespoke news service amid a 4% BBC News budget cut.
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Andrew Neil to start at Times Radio one month ahead of election
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BBC Radio 5 Live appoints new controller in managing editor who commissioned Brexitcast
BBC Radio 5 Live managing editor Heidi Dawson has been made the station’s new controller. Dawson joined Radio 5 Live…
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RAJARs: Radio 5 Live boosts audience but BBC local stations lose listeners
The BBC’s Radio 5 Live audience has jumped by more than half-a-million weekly listeners, according to new industry audience figures,…
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Danny Baker labels BBC sacking over royal baby chimp tweet a ‘masterclass of pompous faux-gravity’
Broadcaster Danny Baker has said his sacking from BBC Radio 5 Live today, over a tweet about the new royal…
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John Inverdale predicts next ‘battleground’ for radio will be live sports rights as commercial stations boom
BBC broadcaster John Inverdale has said commercial sports radio could boom within the next decade and that “exclusive rights” to…
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John Inverdale is leaving BBC Radio 5 Live after 25 years, having been the “driving force” behind its launch in…
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