BBC staffers are urging bosses to axe daytime TV and close channels to save radio and news services, as the broadcaster prepares to announce brutal cuts.
The broadcaster is set to axe hundreds of jobs across its core news team as part of a radical downsizing ahead of talks over the future of the licence fee.
Insiders warned that flagship news radio shows would be hit, with the cuts noticeable to listeners.
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The corporation’s departments have been ordered to cut a tenth of their costs in order to make savings of hundreds of millions of pounds.
