The other best-of-33 semi-final resumes at 14:30 BST with Kyren Wilson leading fellow Englishman Shaun Murphy 6-2. The BBC had already said £50m would come from back office savings'.Three-time champion Selby hit back-to-back 134 breaks as a three-frame burst moved him 8-6 ahead on Friday morning.īingham responded with a 127 but Selby pinched the final frame to lead heading into the evening session at 19:00 BST. According to the FT, '£5m will come from BBC news, £12m from television, and £12m from investing less in 'new features, innovation and development across the BBC's digital services'. The rest of the savings will come from elsewhere in the corporation.

'The corporation has struggled to compete for live sports rights against well-financed rivals Sky and BT, leaving many to fear the future of free-to-air sports broadcasting,' reports The Guardian.

However, it lost the rights to The Open golf in a battle with Sky this year, bringing 61 years of coverage to an end. Premier League football highlights, via Match of the Day, and Wimbledon coverage are also safe for the time being, although the corporation agreed to split its Six Nations rugby coverage with ITV earlier this year. However, the games are seen as an 'overriding editorial priority' and the BBC hopes to sub-licence the event from Eurosport. In June the broadcaster lost the rights to show the Olympics from 2022, after US company Discovery made a £920m offer for exclusive pan-European rights. 'The corporation's contract to broadcast three major snooker competitions ends in 2017, and its rights to air the BDO World Darts Championship elapses in 2016, both of which it will find hard to retain.'

'In 2011 the broadcaster agreed to give up half of its Formula 1 rights to Sky, in a deal that ends in 2018, and it now faces losing the sport in its entirety,' says the paper. As much as £35m is expected to come from a sport budget that has 'already been salami-sliced over the past five years', according to the Daily Telegraph. The Beeb is looking for £150m worth of savings before the final round of budget and contract negotiations with the government. Budget cuts at the BBC are likely to mean an end to the corporation's coverage of Formula 1, snooker and darts, while spending on athletics and other minority sports is likely to be severely reduced with 'red button' coverage axed.

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