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  BBC World Service considers hosting ads on some foreign-language websites

  21 Oct 2010: BBC's director of global news Peter Horrocks says move is part of 'seismic shift' for corporation following licence-fee deal. By Josh Halliday

• BBC World Service is at risk of becoming a postcolonial legacy

  21 Oct 2010: Balaji Ravichandran: Using the licence fee to fund the World Service will change the nature of an institution that has educated and informed the world

• Media Talk: BBC hit in licence fee freeze

  Audio (32min 51sec), 21 Oct 2010:

  Recorded live at the Radio Festival in Salford, Matt Wells is joined by Maggie Brown, Paul Robinson and Matthew Bannister to discuss the BBC's controversial deal with the government to fix the licence fee for six years

• BBC Trust escapes axe as part of licence fee deal

  20 Oct 2010:

  Future of corporation's governing body understood to have been safeguarded in spending review settlement. By Tara Conlan

• A very different BBC

  20 Oct 2010: Jean Seaton: The biggest changes to the BBC's funding in 80 years amount to nothing less than a constitutional revolution

• BBC budget cut by 16% in spending review, George Osborne confirms

  20 Oct 2010: George Osborne says cuts 'similar to savings made by government departments' as BBC licence fee frozen for six years. By James Robinson and Mark Sweney

• How the BBC licence fee deal was done

  20 Oct 2010:

  Talks took place at breakneck speed, as the corporation was dragged into the government's spending review. By Tara Conlan

• BBC will have to cut £140m a year after licence freeze

  20 Oct 2010: Senior BBC source claims 4% in annual savings will meet the cost of cuts unveiled in the spending review. By James Robinson

• Spending review: day of cuts begins with raid on BBC

  20 Oct 2010:

  Photograph gaffe reveals 490,000 public sector jobs will be lost while BBC is hit by a 16% budget cut

• BBC licence fee frozen at £145.50 for six years

  19 Oct 2010: Experts say deal is a 16% budget cut in real terms as corporation picks up bill for World Service and rural internet
  

• BBC licence fee frozen at £145.50 for six years

  19 Oct 2010:

  Freeze is 16% cut in real terms; BBC also agrees to fund World Service and Welsh-language broadcaster S4C from 2015. By Mark Sweney and Tara Conlan

• BBC offers to pay for World Service to avoid licence fee raid

  19 Oct 2010: Corporation fears government plan to make it pay £556m bill for free TV licences for over-75s. By Dan Sabbagh

• BBC World Service backed by former army chief

  15 Oct 2010:

  Sir Richard Dannatt urges £272m grant to stay because radio service is 'relatively cheap' message and beacon of trust for millions around the world

• Media Talk: Bye bye, Mark Byford

  Audio (35min 23sec), 15 Oct 2010:

  TheBBC deputy director general is made redundant. Plus, tensions rise between News Corp and the rest of UK media; Peter Horrocks on cuts to the World Service; and we pay lip service to BBC3's new lesbian drama. With Matt Wells, Dan Sabbagh and John Plunkett

• Quangos on threat list to learn fate

  12 Oct 2010: Announcement will resolve fate of organisations including the BBC World Service, British Council, and Design Council

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