Victoria Derbyshire has condemned claims by the BBC that it is cutting her show because it failed to grow its live audience. Victoria Derbyshire has condemned claims by the BBC that it is cutting her show because it failed to grow its live audience. She wrote on Twitter: “we were NEVER asked to grow the linear Tv audience. Growing the digital figures We achieved all 3.”Derbyshire live tweeted from a briefing to BBC staff about the cuts to the news division as part of a cost-reduction drive. January 29, 2020She previously posted an image of a screen from the presentation, entitled Modernising BBC News, which she said was being streamed to staff elsewhere in the BBC.

Source: Irish Independent January 29, 2020 14:48 UTC