From BBC2 current affairs to 1Xtra news bulletins, here is a rundown of BBC cuts for the year to the end of April 2013

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Overall job cuts

140 posts to go over next year – 70 in newsgathering, 28 in newsroom and rest from programmes – out of target to cut about 500 across BBC News and English regions, as part of Delivering Quality First initiative by 2016

BBC2

• Reduction in current affairs output by nine hours per year

• Main focus of BBC2 current affairs output after April 2013 to be 12 hours a year of This World, plus "a range of landmark short series"

• Some of DQF savings to be set aside for re-investment in "incremental" increase in investigations

BBC News Channel

• Switch from two presenters to one, leading to one post closure

• Focus budget on breaking news and main stories of the day, money spent away from "core coverage" to be cut back

• Co-siting of BBC News Channel and BBC World at Broadcasting House will lead to savings in story production and booking of guests, with loss of one assistant editor post

• Funding of back half hour programmes to be cut from April 2013, with closure of one post

• Funding for Our World programme under review, with one post at risk

Radio 5 Live

• Nine out of 17 BBC Radio 5 Live reporter posts cut

• One new 5 Live reporter job in Salford, UK-focused

• Four new reporter roles based in Newcastle, Birmingham, Cambridge and Plymouth

Radio 4 current affairs

• Three or four post closures

• Annual funding to be cut by £500,000

• Taking A Stand, Beyond Westminster axed

• Number of editions of In Business and Law in Action likely to be cut

• More staff restructuring, co-commissioning, reversioning and reduction in cash and freelance budgets, which could lead to a further three or four posts closing

Radio 4 daily news programmes (including Today, The World At One, PM, The World Tonight)

• Three reporter and two production posts to go

• More integration between individual programmes

• More sharing of reporters with Newsnight

Newsnight

• Three reporter posts to close

• Proportionate reduction in budget for filming, editing, camera crew and library costs

• More joint commissioning with TV and radio current affairs

• Newsnight to end full co-presentation from party conferences

Radio 1 and 1Xtra news bulletins

• Seventeen journalism posts to close

• BBC Audio & Music to reduce funding for news by 90% by 2013

• Radio 1 and 1Xtra will no longer have their own dedicated news services, except at breakfast

Asian Network news

• Fifteen post closures

• Funding to be cut by 50%

• News service to switch from Leicester to London

• Fewer bespoke bulletins, reduced staff for The Nihal Phone-in and Asian Network Reports

• Potential for four new multimedia reporter posts as part of reinvestment of £250,000 annually for delivery of Asian news content across BBC

Newsgathering

• 45 posts cut by April 2013, as part of move to close 70 by 2016 to help achieve net annual savings of £8m

BBC radio news

• Two posts to go by April 2013, two more later

• Move to combined Broadcasting House newsroom expected to lead to further "productivity savings"

BBC online news

• Six posts to be cut

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