Cost cutting on the agenda for the ABC

The board of the ABC will meet to discuss a range of cost cutting measures, including negotiations over a staff pay deal and plans to remove content from News Corp’s Foxtel.

Chair Ita Buttrose and managing director David Anderson have been wrestling with how to handle a freeze on the ABC’s $1 billion budget that has come into effect this year meaning the broadcaster will facing $84 million less in funding over the next three years.