COST SAVINGS

Aiming to save �320m a year over three years, to clear the BBC’s overdraft by 2007.

Cut 47% of professional services staff - such as finance, human resources, communications, policy and strategy staff - over the next three years. Less than half of those cuts would be redundancies.

General management and administration services to also be cut by about 47%, losing at least a quarter of posts.

Savings of 15% each in news, radio and music, TV, new media and the Nations and Regions divisions over three years.

Fewer posts may be needed for existing work, new posts may be created for new work.

Net redundancies in production areas could be less than the 15% savings target implies once new money is reinvested.

MOVING TO MANCHESTER

Establish a state-of-the-art BBC centre in Manchester with ‘brilliant career and creative opportunities’.

Move London-based Children’s TV and Radio - including CBBC and CBeebies - BBC Sport, Five Live and Five Live Sports Extra, New Media HQ,

Research and Development and Formal Learning departments to the new Manchester centre.

An estimated 1,800 staff to move from London to Manchester.

It is likely to be five years before ‘major moves’ take place.

TV drama made outside London to increase from 30% to 50% during the next Charter.

PROGRAMME PRODUCTION

BBC to commission a minimum of 50% of non-news programmes in-house.

One quarter of programmes must be commissioned from independent producers.

Simplify the commissioning process to make it faster and less complex.

Double the number of hours allocated to independent radio productions, an increase of 3,100 hours.

COMMERCIAL BBC

BBC commercial business should only exploit BBC content and the BBC brand.

Magazines should focus more on brands and subjects connected to the BBC’s core programmes.

Trailing magazines on air should stop.

PROGRAMME STRATEGY

The BBC will focus on programme areas where it has “commanding reputations”.

These include news and current affairs, comedy and drama, music, learning, major sporting and national events and children’s programmes.

It will continue to support new services - such as interactive, mobile, and internet broadband services - and original entertainment.

It will invest more in original journalism, newsgathering and current affairs, original British drama and comedy, and boost programme budgets for children’s shows and digital TV channel BBC Four.

A new music strategy will be developed, “ground-breaking” factual programmes will be created and the BBC will become more ambitious in its radio and new media output.