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From the article: > Continuing cuts to BBC budgets and deep job cuts, caused by successive licence fee freezes, have been blamed for recent errors in the corporation’s news output, especially in regional English newsrooms.

That is the main piece of news as far as I can see. (Maybe it's not news for those who have followed the British media more closely than me.) The BBC does have some internal standards, but is increasingly unable to follow them because of budget cuts by the government, leading to lack of internal quality control.

>>gpvos+(OP)
In 2010 the TV license was £198.79[0]. Today it's £159, that's a 20% cut, with no real change in output.

Over the next 2 years it's coming down another 10% (or more) [1]

[0] https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/2010?amount=145.5...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tv-licence-fee-frozen-for...

>>iso121+m3
Accounting for inflation the licence fee in 2010 was £270 in todays money. So in real terms the BBC has seen a cut of 42%, which is kind of insane.

>>gpvos+(OP)
I don't believe so, their decline of quality and trustworthiness has been going on longer than cuts to the license fee.

I also don't feel that the license fee represents value for money anymore.

>>avianl+1g
No, in 2010 it was £145.50, which is just under £200 in today's money

However the number of subscribers has not remained static, also unreflected is the free subscription for over 75s which the government did fund but no longer go, nor the withdrawal of money from the government for things like World Service and Monitoring

Total license fee + grant funding in 2010 was £3.95b or £5.39b in today's money. It's down to about £3.9b today, so that's a realterms cut of 28%