And will Messrs Wogan and Ross be told to re-apply for their jobs - at considerably reduced fees of-course?

For what the BBC does it most certainly is not over-staffed - quite the opposite. It is just that it is simply too big and the money stretched too thinly. The ordinary rank and file staff are also not over-paid either despite the huge salaries of the presenters. The pay of the former and the latter are in two different leagues if not galaxies.

But the BBC always has had strange ideas about budget keeping. On this very same day it's been revealed the BBC plans to open up to 14 new pan-European tv channels, and several "micro-local" tv stations in the UK. What Auntie really needs is a good diet rather than binge and bust.

Barrie Redfern, Krsko, Slovenia

John from Salford obviously finds it easier to sulk and attack the other posters, rather than present a sensible point of view. Is it that you dislike the BBC because you cannot invest in it? That you don't care for the poor who wouldn't get educational TV in a solely commercial world?

Claiming that having to reapply for your own job is normal and okay because 'I went through it' is no reason at all. It's just jealousy.

It /is/ interesting to observe the music industry, led by Universal, attempting to impose a 'license fee of sorts' upon the hardware manufacturer's mp3 players, in an attempt to break the digital-rights-shackles-of-monopoly that Apple have found themselves running (see Total Music). The manufacturer's would probably pass this on to the customer, meaning that each iPod would be comparable to UK TVs now. It seems the internet and the reality of downloading might force the commercial media companies to adopt a business model the BBC have pioneered over the last 80 year

Hannah, Witney, UK

So who hasn't had to reapply for their own job. It's about time the staff at the BBC woke up to the realities of the commercial world most of us have to live in. The sooner the BBC licence fee is scrapped the better so those in this cash rich trough have to actually recognize how difficult it can be to generate enough income to be a successful organization.

MS, York,

Noah, you have millions of people forced to subsidise your entertainment so I'm glad you are happy with this but perhaps it's time you moved into the 21st century with everyone else

John, Salford, England

The licence fee is a total rip off.Scrap 24hr news and bbc3,4 and put on adverts.Got to be more interesting than last nights offering of Dr Finleys casebook from 1950,s 60,s?
The only decent channel on freeview (uktv History) has been removed from set to be replaced by a channel called Dave believe it or not.
Oh well back to Sky documentaries (well worth the money)
Ps can they not replace that annoying big ears and the muppets on saturday night football highlights.

jjones, wolves,

Wave up to economic reality BBC, my licence fee of £135 per year is ludricrous and worse blackmail than a speed camera. Welcome to what all the rest of us have had to go through - applying for our own jobs, hellish sleepless nights worrying about the mortgage and your cushy public funded pension.

My main point is who listens to local radio anyway ? Just shut the lot, leave the locals to the advertising funded stations who do a better job and keep on the 4 national big ones.

Roarke, wembley,

Do away with the fixed tax? Do you mean the license fee? The license fee model has produced the largest and best television broadcaster on planet earth. Period. Just travel to another land and switch on the telly to see this point easily demonstrated.
Compared to commercially funded television there's an educated responsibility that shines from the BBC. Compared to the exhorbitant and low-brow SKY, the BBC represents incredible value. The truly puzzling thing is /why/ the BBC is being broken up, shrunk and generally molested? It seems like even the BBC isn't free from tampering by latter day monetarist spivs, just like the 'real world'. How sad.

Noah, Oxford, UK

BBC1 & 2 and Radio 1 & 2 should be sold off.

The licence fee could then be slashed to 20% of what it is now.

There are are far too many fat cats at the BBC.

Thomas Maxwell, Redhill,

The majority of BBC staff are excessively overpaid and underworked. Several highly paid presenters think themselves more as "celebrities" in order to justify their sky high salaries and not as employees of a publicly funded organisation paid for by countless low paid workers, pensioners and the disabled who are living from hand to mouth (I am not in these categories and I count myself fortunate but I place myself in the position of those less fortunate). These presenters simply wish to milk the public purse in order to fund their baloon sized pension pots and it is well over due that the "tap of milk and honey" is shut off. I congratulate Mark Thompson for attempting to bring some reality check to these overpaid public employees and although it may already be years too late, I hope that the Director General will not be railroaded by politicians, pressure groups and internal shenanigans within the corporation and will be succesful reigning in the colossal unsupportable budget.

james, Bexhill-on-Sea,

Reapplying for your own job during rationalisations is normal business practise. Why do BBC staff think they should be treated differently? Many of these journalists have been cocooned from the real world for too long. From their ivory towers they have contemptuously attacked other people who have tried to protect there own neighbourhoods and ways of life. Now it turns out these people dont like it when its their turn for major change. People dont want to pay for a service which campaignes against them. They say what goes around comes around, the BBC is reaping what it sowed.

johnw, Oldham,

They could sack the team that gave Jonathan Woss a £18m contract for a start

B Baggins, Torbay, UK

Why are the likes of Mark Thompson and other executives of the BBC not let go? Can any one tell me what the The BBC trust does? Seems to me it keeps a seat warm and collects a salary. Money is wasted in creating bigger studios in Washington, or reading the news from US. All news should be read from London.

Chris , Victoria , Canada

The golden goose is dead - live with it

DL, Argyll, Argyll

These cuts are a pity for the BBC and the staff. However this process of applying for your own job with a CV etc has been going on for at least 20 years. Including in the public sector.

This type of process and enforced unagreed change are what causes some of the strikes which the BBC have reported on so evenhandedly for many years.
I suppose the director general or whatever the new title is will not have any opponents or not have to reapply.

Robin short, Potters bar, England

And? What is the big deal? That is the way re-organisations are run these days with the result that many long standing and effective staff get ousted in favour of bright young graduates, who save the tax payer pots of money. Grow up and live in the real world. The BBC staff do not deserve any special treatement compared to workers in other public sector organisations.

Robert Grundy, London,

Time the B.B.C raised monies for programms the same as the other broadcasters.
Do away with the fixed tax on all viewers

Ted Taggart, Derby,