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The 麻豆约拍 has today set out the blueprint to build a digital-first public service media organisation.

In a speech to staff this afternoon, Director-General Tim Davie said the 麻豆约拍 must reform to stay relevant and continue to provide great value for all.

This will include changes to content and services, efficiency savings and a drive to seek new commercial investment, as the 麻豆约拍 manages the demands of the licence fee settlement and looks to the future.

The broadcaster will adapt to compete and succeed in a busy, global market, while staying faithful to the values that have underpinned it for a century.

It will change in step with the modern world, giving audiences the content they want and delivering it to them in the ways they want it.

The plan focuses on creating a modern, digital-led and streamlined organisation that drives the most value from the licence fee and delivers more for audiences. 

This first phase represents 拢500m of annual savings and reinvestment to make the 麻豆约拍 digital-led.

As part of this, 拢200m will contribute to the 拢285m annual funding gap by 2027/28, created by the licence fee settlement earlier this year. The remaining funding gap will be covered in the final three years of this Charter period, which is consistent with previous savings programmes.

The 麻豆约拍 will also reinvest 拢300m to drive a digital-first approach, through changes to content and output and additional commercial income. This includes:

• Shifting significant amounts of money into new programmes for iPlayer which will also attract extra third-party investment on screen
• Shifting resources in local output towards digital, while keeping spend flat
• Making savings in broadcast news, reinvesting that in video and digital news
• Investing up to 拢50m a year in product development.

Overall, there will be up to 1,000 fewer people employed in the public-funded part of the 麻豆约拍 over the next few years.

Detailed plans and budgets will be set out as normal in future Annual Plans and Annual Reports and Accounts.

Director-General Tim Davie told staff: 鈥淲hen I took this job I said that we needed to fight for something important: public service content and services, freely available universally, for the good of all.

鈥淭his fight is intensifying, the stakes are high.鈥�

Examples of future changes announced today include:

• The creation of a single, 24-hour TV news channel serving UK and international audiences, called 麻豆约拍 News, offering greater amounts of shared content, but maintaining the ability to offer separate broadcasts depending on what鈥檚 happening at home and abroad;
• Plans to stop broadcasting smaller linear channels, such as C麻豆约拍 and 麻豆约拍 Four and Radio 4 Extra, after the next few years;
• Ongoing work to strip out any unnecessary bureaucracy, reduce running costs and simplify ways of working to free up time;
• Plans to stop scheduling separate content for Radio 4 Long Wave, consulting with partners, including the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, ahead of the closure of the Long Wave platform itself;
• Shifting a number of World Service languages to be digital only;
• An ambition to reach 75% of 麻豆约拍 viewers through iPlayer each week;
• Reviewing commercial options for audio production;
• New on-demand content and formats for news and current affairs;
• Requesting Ofcom to remove regulatory restrictions on iPlayer to expand boxsets and archive content;
• Bigger investment in programming from the nations and regions across the UK;
• Investment in an enhanced news and current affairs offer for iPlayer and Sounds, with new video formats, simulcasts and podcasts;
• Changes in local radio and regional news to ensure high-quality, distinctive 麻豆约拍 local journalism is available every day when and where audiences want it;
• Plans to accelerate digital growth in audio and drive listeners to 麻豆约拍 Sounds, simplifying schedules and cancelling shows that do not deliver;
• Further investment in data to ensure comprehensive, real-time data that supports growth of digital products and services.

Speaking to staff, Mr Davie said: 鈥淭his is our moment to build a digital-first 麻豆约拍. Something genuinely new, a Reithian organisation for the digital age, a positive force for the UK and the world.

鈥淚ndependent, impartial, constantly innovating and serving all. A fresh, new, global digital media organisation which has never been seen before. 

鈥淒riven by the desire to make life and society better for our licence fee payers and customers in every corner of the UK and beyond.  They want us to keep the 麻豆约拍 relevant and fight for something that in 2022 is more important than ever.

鈥淭o do that we need to evolve faster and embrace the huge shifts in the market around us.鈥� 

Work will start immediately, with further details to be announced in the coming months, including consultations with staff.

Mr Davie added: 鈥淚 believe in a public service 麻豆约拍 for all, properly funded, relevant for everyone, universally available, and growing in the on-demand age. This plan sets us on that journey.鈥�

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