Significant funding and job cuts, multiple crises and “persistent attacks from the press” have left BBC staff feeling “beleaguered,” according to BBC Chair Richard Sharp.Delivering a keynote at today’s Voice of the Listener & Viewer conference, Sharp also warned “there will be consequences” on programme budgets if the licence fee stops rising with inflation from next year, with genres that are less commercial such as local news likely to take the hit.Questioned by Deadline on his comment that BBC staff are feeling “a bit beleaguered,” Sharp spoke candidly: “We’ve had to take significant financial and job cuts over the past years which creates a slightly negative attitude internally.
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