“With out intervention, it will likely be troublesome to keep up the present ambition and quantity of UK content material,” the BBC stated in its strategic plan for the yr forward.
BBC Group says it expects revenue of round US$7.9 billion in 2025/26, which represents an round US$1.3 billion annual drop since 2010 as soon as inflation is taken into consideration.
“We’ve delivered important efficiencies, together with reducing 2000 roles during the last 5 years however we now have reached the restrict of considerable future features from this strategy,” warned the annual report.
The BBC “faces an unprecedented content material funding problem, as co-production partnerships with international streamers and media firms have decreased throughout the sector,” it added.
The BBC is funded primarily by a licence charge on tv house owners, however that has been frozen for the previous two years whereas basic inflation has risen sharply.
