Channel 4 has said it plans to chopped 340 jobs earlier the extremity of the year, reducing its workforce by much than a quarter.
The network, which broadcasts Gogglebox and The Great British Bake Off, volition suffer astir 28% of its existent 1,270 unit pursuing a strategical reappraisal of the organisation.
Priya Dogra, Channel 4's main executive, said the announcement "marks the archetypal signifier of our transformation, ensuring Channel 4 is the close signifier and size to present its aboriginal strategy and absorption concern successful the programmes audiences love".
Caroline Dinenage, seat of the culture, media and athletics committee said the quality would beryllium "deeply worrying for the talented and dedicated radical who enactment astatine Channel 4".
The web said it planned to absorption connected creating a simpler and much businesslike operating exemplary and alteration greater concern successful distinctive programming.
In her statement, Dogra said: "Channel 4 is simply a precious plus which plays a unsocial relation successful the UK.
"We request to unafraid and ain our aboriginal truthful we tin proceed to marque shows others won't, scope audiences others can't, and thrive arsenic a distinctive and disruptive British dependable for aboriginal generations.
"The challenges we look necessitate a cardinal translation successful however we work. I cognize the proposals we are announcing contiguous volition beryllium precise hard for galore colleagues and volition person a important interaction crossed the organisation."
She added: "These decisions person not been taken lightly, but I powerfully judge they are indispensable to make a simpler, much focused and much sustainable Channel 4."
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