MPs call on BBC to reject proposal to merge news under commercially-operated BBC World News
MPs are petitioning on the BBC’s proposal to merge its news operations, BBC News and BBC World News, into one 24-hour channel as part of the organisation’s cost-cutting measures intended to stop it acting as a competitor.
The motion was tabled by Labour MP Helen Goodman yesterday (6 June), and has called on the corporation’s management to avoid the merging of its news operations, which Goodman said would “blur the lines between the licence fee and the pursuit of profit”.
It adds that the closure or alteration of the BBC News channel into a commercially-operated BBC World News TV Channel that is Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
