The North West’s sporting legacy appears to be substantially better than its marketing clout as just 26% of the BBC’s marketing, communications and technology staff have agreed to move to MediaCityUK.
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Meanwhile 58% of Sport has said yes, as did 56% of Radio 5 Live’s morning team and 50% of 5 Live’s news staff.
The first new employees will head to Salford this year and the new statistics show how many of the 924 affected staff have opted to head North.
In total 428 have said yes, that includes 45% of future media and technology, 26% of BBC Learning and 31% of the children’s department.
This is despite a package, which includes cash to pay for new carpets and curtains, expenses to go house-hunting in Manchester and a relocation payment of £5k.
Those who've decided not to go to MediaCity have a year to find new jobs in the BBC or they can take redundancy.
"We aim to sound like a radio station free of any metropolitan bias which covers events and stories in every part of the UK. A base outside London should make that easier to achieve to the full - as I've written here before, if you were starting 5 live today I'm certain you would not choose be based in London."
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