The ABC will announce as many as 100 jobs will be cut as the national broadcaster restructures for the new year.

Managing director David Anderson released the stations five-year plan last Friday, which hints at the cuts.

“Over the next five years, the ABC will undergo a significant transition from maintaining both traditional broadcast and digital processes, towards becoming an integrated digital operation,” he said.

“While broadcast will remain important, this five-year plan is a first step to build an ABC that is prepared for a digital-majority audience.

“The ABC will enhance its primary digital products, ABC News, ABC iview and ABC listen, to provide a seamless, personalised service that enables audiences to more easily discover content that is relevant to them.”

The biggest change will be the axing of the regional journalist division and radio division.

Regional journalists who escape the axe will join the overall news division, while radio will be folded into television under the rather unimaginative ‘content division’ banner.

Former Netflix executive Chris Oliver-Taylor will lead the content division, while current news director Justin Stevens will continue to lead news programming.