BBC News is it the Second largest news broadcaster?

Second largest broadcaster

Have to query this... Whilst CNN claims '4000 news professionals' I find it hard to believe that they are all contributing to the CNN news product. A lot of those probably work in sales/advertising/marketing/legal, etc. The BBC has seperate depts. for this.

Think it needs to be made clear that whilst "BBC News" as an entity might employ 'x' number of people, the overall product is contributed to by countless other parts of the BBC, such as BBC Radio. For instance, would you include the staff of the BBC World Service in the "BBC News" staff? Technically, no, because they aren't part of BBC News, but they do contribute to news broadcasts very frequently. In terms of the number of BBC journalists that BBC News as a whole uses, I imagine it is probably more than quadruple that of CNN - think of the number of BBC radio stations (well over 50, each with dedicated journalists), BBC online, BBC regional TV in the UK, BBC TV news, BBC current affairs programmes (Panorama, etc.)