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BBC chief planning a radical overhaul of Corporation hierarchy
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 15 February 2016
BBC boss Tony Hall is planning a major revamp of the Beeb’s hierarchy, according to the Telegraph, which will see the organisation structured according to content-type rather than channel and medium.
The move would also significantly reduce the layers of management within the Corporation that have often been criticised in the past. This is a process Hall has already begun with some recent reorganisation, though the new plans would be more radical.
For viewers, the Beeb’s TV channel and radio brands would remain, for the time being at least, but behind the scenes each outlet would no longer have its own management structure, and the big divide between TV and radio would go.
New divisions being discussed reportedly include BBC Entertain, which would oversee entertainment-based TV output and Radio 2, while BBC Inform would take over news and Radio 5.
An early output of the new approach would be BBC Youth, which would bring Radio 1 and BBC Three under the same management, would make total sense given the latter is going online-only this week, and the former has made no secret of its ambitions in the online video space.
The Telegraph says all of this is still up for debate, though an announcement of Hall’s big rejig should come this side of Easter.
