The BBC is to explore closing its Red Button services as part of £150m of cuts that include a £35m reduction in sports rights spending. What does this mean for the corporation, and the viewer? In the UK, 97% of people use the BBC and on average spend 18 hours a week with it in one form or another. The BBC also needs to cut around £700m and something will have to go. Reconciling those two facts is never going to please everybody. The announcement that in the first £150m of cuts a "phased exit" from red button services is now being considered makes sense if you think the BBC will increasingly be accessed online via the iPlayer. The red button,...
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