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  Retreat on BBC local radio cuts should signal advance for local media policy

  November 29, 2011 / View TV News

  Distant bugles sound impending retreat. It’s “not out of the question” that the BBC will relent on cutting 280 jobs and £15m a year out of local radio budgets, according to its chief operating officer. The director general himself adds a phrase or two of wriggle room. A vehement staff and listener campaign against the 14% savings proposed over the next five years begins to bear fruit. MPs, of course, are formidable allies in such a cause, for MPs have [...]

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  Alan Hansen earns £40k for each ‘Match of the Day’

  October 31, 2011 / View TV News

  Salaries paid by the BBC are once again in the spotlight after it emerged that Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen earns £1.5 million a year from the corporation, working out at £40,000 per episode of the football show.
  The former Liverpool player is thought to be among the highest paid stars at the BBC, although Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker is believed to be on a bigger contract.
  At a time when the corporation is proposing to cut [...]

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  Top Gear did not libel carmaker Tesla, high court rules

  October 20, 2011 / View TV News

  Tesla Motors loses major part of high court libel claim against BBC’s motoring programme over performance of its Roadster.
  Electric sports carmaker Tesla Motors has lost a major part of its high court libel claim against the BBC’s Top Gear programme, but is still suing the corporation for malicious falsehood over an episode that showed the company’s Roadster model running out of battery in a race.
  Ruling at the high court in London on Wednesday, Mr Justice Tugendhat said that no Top [...]

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