Further written evidence from the BBC
World Service
WORLD SERVICE SAVINGS ANNOUNCED 26 JANUARY
2011
| Service |
| Expected Audience Impact | Content & Production Savings*
| Proposed post closures |
| | |
£k | EFT |
| Portuguese for Africa | full closure
| 1,498,000 | 551 | 11
|
| Caribbean | full closure |
660,000 | 365 | 5
|
| Albanian | full closure |
510,000 | 948 | 23
|
| Macedonian | full closure |
160,000 | 424 | 10
|
| Serbian | full closure |
550,000 | 1,034 | 21
|
| | |
| |
| Turkish | radio closure |
450,000 | 222 | 5
|
| Ukrainian | radio closure |
910,000 | 588 | 17
|
| Russian | radio closure |
1,241,000 | 1,558 | 45
|
| Chinese | radio closure |
595,000 | 413 | 8
|
| Spanish | radio closure |
9,000 | 859 | 20
|
| Vietnamese | radio closure |
110,000 | 200 | 5
|
| Azeri | radio closure | 150,000
| 367 | 8 |
| | |
| |
| Persian R&O | reduction in output
| 0 | 250 | 22
|
| Uzbek | reduction in output
| 0 | 125 | 8
|
| Hindi/India | reduction in output
| 10,927,000 | 680 | 30
|
| Urdu | reduction in output |
0 | | 5 |
| Indonesian | reduction in output
| 1,700,000 | 664 | 12
|
| Central Asian Management | reduction in output
| | 137 | 3 |
| Arabic | reduction in output
| | 1,500 | 60
|
| Other savings | reduction in output
| | 271 | |
| | |
| |
| Total | | 19,470,000
| 11,156 | 317 |
| | |
| |
| Language services (above) | £m
| 19.5 | 11.2 |
|
| WS English | £m |
| 4.0 | |
| Technology | £m |
| 1.9 | |
| Distribution | £m |
10.5 | 5.6 | |
| Studio operations | £m
| | 2.3 | |
| Support | £m |
| 4.4 | |
| Rights | £m |
| 0.5 | |
| Total savings | £m
| 30.0 | 29.9 |
|
*Distribution, overhead and support savings not included
Audience impact shown above covers the editorial changes and platform
closures only. The balance
of the expected 30 million audience reduction announced in January
results from distribution changes
covering Swahili, Nepali, English (to W Europe and Russia) and
Arabic.
Supplementary written evidence from the BBC world Service
REMAINING AUDIENCES POST-SPENDING REVIEW
| Top countries | Languages
| Platforms | Total pre-CSR WS audience
| Total estimated remaining WS audience
| Total pre-CSR BBC audience including World News and bbc.com
| Total estimated remaining BBC audience
| Region |
| NIGERIA | Hausa, English
| AM, FM (non-news), online, mobile, TV Arabic, TV WN
| 21,800,000 | 21,800,000
| 24,100,000 | 24,100,000
| AfME |
| TANZANIA | Swahili, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 13,100,000 |
11,700,000 | 13,600,000
| 12,200,000 |
AfME |
| INDIA | Hindi, English
| FM (non-news), online, mobile, TV WN, AM closing 2012
| 11,500,000 |
1,573,000 | 13,800,000
| 3,873,000 | AsiaPac
|
| AFGHANISTAN | Pastho, Dari, Uzbek, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN, TV Persian
| 9,800,000 | 9,800,000
| 10,000,000 | 10,000,000
| AsiaPac |
| PAKISTAN | Urdu, Hindi, Pashto, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 9,300,000 | 9,300,000
| 10,800,000 | 10,800,000
| AsiaPac |
| DR CONGO | French, Swahili, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 8,900,000 | 8,900,000
| 8,900,000 | 8,900,000
| AfME |
| BURMA | Burmese, English
| AM, online, TV WN |
8,400,000 | 8,400,000
| 8,500,000 | 8,500,000
| AsiaPac |
| BANGLADESH | Bengali, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 7,500,000 | 7,500,000
| 10,100,000 | 10,100,000
| AsiaPac |
| USA | English
| FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 7,300,000 | 7,300,000
| 35,300,000 | 35,300,000
| AmEu |
| KENYA | Swahili, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 5,600,000 | 3,900,000
| 6,000,000 |
4,300,000 | AfME
|
| NEPAL | Nepalese, English
| AM, FM, online, TV WN |
5,400,000 | 5,400,000
| 6,100,000 | 6,100,000
| AsiaPac |
| INDONESIA | Indonesian, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 5,200,000 | 3,500,000
| 5,500,000 |
3,800,000 | AsiaPac
|
| SUDAN | Arabic, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV Arabic, TV WN
| 4,400,000 | 4,400,000
| 4,600,000 | 4,600,000
| AfME |
| IRAN | Persian, English
| AM, online, TV Persian, TV WN
| 3,900,000 | 3,900,000
| 4,000,000 | 4,000,000
| AsiaPac |
| IRAQ | Arabic, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV Arabic, TV WN
| 3,800,000 | 3,800,000
| 4,500,000 | 4,500,000
| AfME |
| EGYPT | Arabic, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV Arabic, TV WN
| 3,400,000 | 3,400,000
| 3,500,000 | 3,500,000
| AfME |
| NIGER | Hausa, English
| AM, FM, online, TV WN |
3,400,000 | 3,400,000
| 3,400,000 | 3,400,000
| AfME |
| MOROCCO | Arabic, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV Arabic, TV WN
| 2,700,000 | 2,700,000
| 2,700,000 | 2,700,000
| AfME |
| GHANA | English, Hausa
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 2,500,000 | 2,500,000
| 2,600,000 | 2,600,000
| AfME |
| SAUDI ARABIA | Arabic, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV Arabic, TV WN
| 2,400,000 | 2,400,000
| 2,400,000 | 2,400,000
| AfME |
| SYRIA | Arabic, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV Arabic, TV WN
| 2,200,000 | 2,200,000
| 2,300,000 | 2,300,000
| AfME |
| RWANDA | Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 2,100,000 | 2,100,000
| 2,100,000 | 2,100,000
| AfME |
| TURKEY | Turkish, English
| online, mobile, TV Turkish, TV Arabic, TV WN
| 2,100,000 | 1,650,000
| 2,900,000 |
2,450,000 | AmEu
|
| UGANDA | English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 2,100,000 | 1,970,000
| 2,300,000 |
2,170,000 | AfME
|
| GUINEA | French, English
| AM, FM, online, TV WN |
1,700,000 | 1,700,000
| 1,700,000 | 1,700,000
| AfME |
| MALAWI | English
| AM, FM, online, TV WN |
1,700,000 | 1,700,000
| 1,700,000 | 1,700,000
| AfME |
| BRAZIL | Portuguese, English
| online, TV WN | 1,400,000
| 1,400,000 | 1,800,000
| 1,800,000 | AmEu
|
| BURUNDI | Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, English
| AM, FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 1,400,000 | 1,400,000
| 1,400,000 | 1,400,000
| AfME |
| CHINA | Mandarin, Cantonese, English
| online, mobile, TV WN
| 1,400,000 | 805,000
| 2,000,000 |
1,205,000 | AsiaPac
|
| MOZAMBIQUE |
| | 1,400,000
| 234,000 | 1,400,000
| 255,000 | AfME
|
| SIERRA LEONE | English
| AM, FM, online, TV WN |
1,200,000 | 1,200,000
| 1,200,000 | 1,200,000
| AfME |
| SRI LANKA | Sinhala, English
| AM, FM, online, TV WN |
1,200,000 | 1,200,000
| 1,500,000 | 1,500,000
| AsiaPac |
| UK | English
| FM, online | 1,200,000
| 1,000,000 | 1,200,000
| 1,000,000 | AmEu
|
| AUSTRALIA | English
| FM, online, mobile, TV WN
| 1,100,000 | 1,100,000
| 1,100,000 | 1,000,000
| AsiaPac |
| LIBERIA | English
| AM, FM, online, TV WN |
1,100,000 | 1,100,000
| 1,200,000 | 1,200,000
| AfME |
| ZAMBIA | English
| AM, online, TV WN |
1,000,000 | 1,000,000
| 1,000,000 | 1,000,000
| AfME |
| UKRAINE | Ukrainian, Russian, English
| online, TV WN | 990,000
| 80,000 | 1,300,000
| 390,000 | AmEu
|
| RUSSIA | Russian, English
| online, TV WN |
830,000 | 330,000
| 2,300,000 |
1,800,000 | AmEu
|
| | |
| | | |
|
| Region |
| | | |
| | |
| Africa/Middle East |
| | 87,900,000
| 83,504,000 | 92,600,000
| 88,225,000 |
|
| Asia Pacific |
| | 64,700,000
| 52,478,000 | 73,400,000
| 60,878,000 |
|
| Americas/Europe |
| | 13,820,000
| 11,760,000 | 44,800,000
| 42,740,000 |
|
Bold cells indicate audiences that are likely to decline as a
result of the changes made.
Shows largest audiences only. Excludes countries served by services
that have closed as a result of funding reductions
Supplementary written evidence from the BBC World Service
SUMMARY OF
REMAINING BBC AUDIENCES
BY COUNTRY
POST-SPENDING
REVIEW
- BBC World Service has had to make a number of changes to its
operations as a result of a challenging SR settlement. As well
as a substantial cut in back office and support functions, this
will require closure of some language services, moving resources
from radio to online, and reducing short wave transmissions. This
will inevitably lead to loss of audiences, in a number of places.
- This was not an easy choice. All our audiences are important
to us. As Peter Horrocks said to the Committee when he informed
them that the audience would decrease by 30 million "that
is 30 million regrets".
- However, although the cuts are severe, the World Service will
still remain a global broadcaster with significant audiences in
Asia, Africa, Latin America and the English-speaking developed
world. Moreover, the BBC's global offer extends beyond the World
Service radio - its commercially funded services, BBC World News
and bbc.com, also
command substantial audiences and maintain the same high standards
of impartial global news.
- Short wave will be reduced; but out of the countries
where we have the largest radio audiences (ca 1 million to 22
million), audiences will remain unaffected by these changes in
Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Burma, Bangladesh, USA, Nepal, Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Niger,
Morocco, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Rwanda, Guinea, Malawi, Brazil,
Burundi and Sierra Leone.
- We believe that audience numbers will however
decrease in Tanzania, India, Kenya, Indonesia, Turkey, China,
Mozambique, Ukraine and Russia. In these countries, short wave
audiences have been declining for some time and it will become
increasingly difficult to make any impact on short wave over the
next few years.
- Our priority continues to be to seek to deliver
high quality BBC news on platforms where we can make the most
impact. Where short wave makes an impact, we will seek to retain
the service as long as we can. And we will continue to explore
partnerships, medium wave and other means of delivery where we
can.
- Last year our vernacular TV services grew by
72% (from 9.7 million to 16.7 million viewers ) and our vernacular
online services grew by 40% (from 5.2 million to 7.3 million unique
users).
The attached spreadsheet gives a breakdown of existing
and post-SR audiences for BBC World Service and BBC Global News
- including BBC World News and bbc.com - in the top 20 markets
with the highest audiences (NB it is not a complete global picture).
Markets where audiences are decreasing are highlighted.
14 March 2011
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