The BBC is set to slash its annual output by 1,000 hours worth of shows to cope with savings requirements that have shot up by some 40 percent to almost half a billion dollars. In its Annual Plan, published Thursday, the British public service broadcaster revealed that its original projected requirement to find £285 million […]
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