BBC Scotland is braced for its share of brutal cuts announced by new director general Matt Brittin as he tackles a funding crisis at the corporation.

The broadcaster needs to save £500 million from its £5 billion annual budget over the next three years by cutting up to 2,000 jobs, in its biggest round of redundancies since 2011.

The changes include spending £80m less on programmes next year while 550 jobs will go across TV and radio.

Early casualties at network level include Radio 4’s The World Tonight, Money Box Live and Crossing Continents.

There will be one fewer presenters on the flagship Today news programme, with Amol Rajan not being replaced when he leaves his £320,000 a year job in September. There will be a single anchor on Saturdays.

BBC One’s Breakfast will no longer be shown on Sunday morning from September and the production teams making Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg and Newsnight will merge.

Friday’s edition of Newsnight will move to a peak-time slot of 7pm on BBC Two, following an earlier refresh of its format.

There were no details on how the cuts will affect the regions and nations, but there will be further scrutiny of the Scotland channel and its 7pm news programme.The dedicated channel has cost more than £200 million since its launch in 2019 and has suffered from poor viewing.

Mr Brittin said: “All divisions will be making significant savings. Reductions of this scale inevitably mean some compulsory redundancies, though we will work hard to avoid this wherever we can.”

He said there would be a 10% reduction in the number of senior leaders across the BBC and more savings will be set out in the months ahead, including in corporate divisions where it was expected about 700 roles will close.

Felicity Hannah, a presenter on Money Box Live, said: “Money Box Live had a growing live audience, growing podcast listeners and served a very broad and important public interest. We deliberately centred underrepresented communities, from care leavers to apprentices to people living with terminal illnesses.

“We also worked hard to explain and inform the main financial issues of the week, whether it was pensions, mortgages, savings rates or scams.

“Our listeners were the focus of our work and I would spend time helping resolve the problems they sent in, even when they weren’t right for on air. Because they were our listeners, they were our community and I wanted to help.

“Cutting all that work and this entire programme will save one full time journalist and 0.2 of me. It’s not much, really, given the impact the programme had. But those are the kind of cuts that the BBC is being forced to make.”

The announcement comes just a week after STV received support from media regulator Ofcom to trim jobs and scale back its operations in north east Scotland.

Scottish Greens culture spokesperson Q Manivannan said: “With recent cuts at STV and in news rooms across the country, it is a really difficult time for an industry that is more vital than ever.”