No, they tried doing that - first into an external company (BBC Technology), then in 2006ish they sold that off for something like £500m. Some programming jobs

No, they tried doing that - first into an external company (BBC Technology), then in 2006ish they sold that off for something like £500m. Some programming jobs went (Coledia, which was attempts to commercialise things like BNCS and Jupiter), but the software jobs that were really close to the business like the news website stayed in house. Since then things like iplayer were built in house, and obviously R&D were never moved out. Other technology that moved included areas like networks, most commodity IT (domain controllers, file servers etc), and for some reason the main area that looked after satellite bookings, routings etc (analog video distribution and audio tag frames are fairly core broadcast technology). However the news area that did this stayed in house, as did most of the desktop support in news (but not elsewhere), and most of the broadcast support. Except in Glasgow where pretty much everything was moved to Siemens. It was a total mess, and it still is a bit of a mess. Many of the people who were outsourced are still working for ATOS (who took over Siemens/SBS/SIS), in fact I think they even kept the final salary pension which everyone else lost a few years later. A few who had been moved out were moved back in too. However that all seems to be changing again - I believe most of the Atos jobs are moving from Bracknell to Eastern Europe as part of the new contract, and the WAN connectivity which Atos held (through vodafone) has recently moved to BT