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大约4000个职位已经被削减——也就是说,每五位 BBC 员工中就有一人丢掉了饭碗削减节目成本还是展开新一轮裁员?这是英国广播公司 BBC 现在不得不面对的抉择。根据知情人士透露,英国财政大臣戈登·布朗(Gordon Brown)确定了2007年 BBC 所能获得的执照费(licence fee)为33亿英镑,比今年的水平上升了3%。在过去的三年中,这个数字以每年2%的速度递增。但是,布朗定下的数字与 BBC 的要求——在2012年前平均每年增长5.7%
Some 4,000 jobs have been cut - that is, one out of every five BBC employees lost their jobs or cut a new round of layoffs - a decision that the BBC now has to face. According to people familiar with the situation, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the United Kingdom, has set a license fee of 3.3 billion pounds for the BBC in 2007, up 3% from the year before. In the past three years, this figure increased by 2% annually. However, the number set by Brown and the requirements of the BBC - an average annual increase of 5.7% by 2012,