As much as 20 percent of BBC staff are expected to be laid off in director general Mark Thompson’s radical remake of the venerable public broadcaster. That includes “the loss of 1,500 jobs in programme-making divisions such as news and sport. Initial estimates of up to 5,000 job cuts are being hastily revised upwards by broadcasting unions, which are threatening strike action if compulsory redundancies are enforced. Including jobs that will be lost as a result of redundancies, the outsourcing of some roles and the sell-off of commercial divisions such as BBC Broadcast and BBC Resources, up to 6,000 jobs are now expected to go in the biggest ever cull of staff at the corporation.”