BBC Radio is to cut a further 65 posts and reorganise its stations around two “hubs” – pop music and classical music and speech – as part of the corporation’s ongoing Delivering Quality First cost-cutting drive.

The BBC said on Tuesday that the latest job losses were part of a target of cutting about 200 posts between 2012 and 2017 – roughly 15% of the division’s 1,300 staff – under the DQF efficiency savings process.

Management of the BBC’s national stations is to be reorganised into two hubs that will share some management and support services. But each station will retain a dedicated controller, the BBC said.

The pop music hub will encompass Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra, 6 Music and the Asian Network; classical music and speech will comprise Radio 3, Radio 4, 4 Extra, BBC Proms, orchestras and other performing groups.

Radio 1 and Radio 2 will share commissioning, filming, live events and operations, but keep separate production, business management and music teams.

In classical music and speech, some station management, presentation and admin will be shared. But Radio 3 and Radio 4 will retain separate commissioning, scheduling and in the former’s case, music staff.

The BBC said the hubs were for internal management purposes and it had no plans to change the way the national stations are presented on air.

“BBC Radio is the envy of the world and our creativity is second to none,” Helen Boaden, BBC Radio director, said. “But we must also be as small as we can be to meet our savings challenges and increase our agility in the digital world without losing our distinctiveness or damaging relationships with our many audiences. Reducing the division’s headcount by 15% is challenging, but shows just how hard we are working to drive efficiency in everything we do.”

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