BBC Salaries

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Am I the only one who thinks it's absolutely disgusting what these people are earning. The top ten list of the highest paid presenters is listed below.

Gary Lineker - £1,350,000-£1,354,999
Zoe Ball - £980,000-£984,999
Alan Shearer - £445,000-£449,999
Huw Edwards - £435,000-£439,999
Stephen Nolan - £400,000-£404,999
Fiona Bruce - £395,000-£399,999
Greg James - £395,000-£399,999
Ken Bruce - £390,000-£394,999
Lauren Laverne - £390,000-£394,999
Sophie Raworth - £365,000-£369,999

I for one will admit here and now, after the debacle over the preditor unnamed Presenter I will no longer be paying my TV licence, I feel we are or I am an enabler in this sick game the BBC have played not just recently but as far back as Jimmy SaVILE.

 

[RJF 2.0]

The alternative is that the BBC pays its presenters £40k and they spend 6 months there before jumping ship to the big bucks at ITV or Sky. Then the entire thing becomes a revolving door of new faces every 5 minutes.

 

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The alternative is that the BBC pays its presenters £40k and they spend 6 months there before jumping ship to the big bucks at ITV or Sky. Then the entire thing becomes a revolving door of new faces every 5 minutes.

The Beeb is state funded ITV isn't.

 

[RJF 2.0]

The Beeb is state funded ITV isn't.

What’s that got to do with what I posted?

 

[Error404]

What’s that got to do with what I posted?

You said after 6 months they'd jump ship to big bucks ITV, I'm under the impression here that the license fee of the Beeb is funded by the British public,. ITV get their revenue from ad sales. Or am i wrong? Tbh I don't know what's right and what's wrong with the TV industry anymore

 

[kev1974]

The alternative is that the BBC pays its presenters £40k and they spend 6 months there before jumping ship to the big bucks at ITV or Sky. Then the entire thing becomes a revolving door of new faces every 5 minutes.

Not really, there's only so many positions at ITV, once they're filled they're filled (at least for a good while).

 

[Doyouknowwhatimean]

Not really, there's only so many positions at ITV, once they're filled they're filled (at least for a good while).

Everyone at itv is freelance innit. They are not contracted in the same way as the BBC. Think presenters have touched upon this before.

 

[BuzzLightYear95]

The BBC should be made up of volunteers. We must be the only country that pays for our state propaganda!

 

[emmer_moans]

Noone deserves to be paid 1,350,000 for commenting on sport. I bet he reads out a lot of stuff prepared for him by other staff. He gets to sit in a chair and talk football for that amount? Madness. It's an obscene amount. Even a Prime Minister's wage pales in comparison. There is no justification for that price. And Linekar is a prick on twitter too, being all sarcastic all the time when you're paid that obscene amount of money you'd think you would act gracefully. Obscene amount of money.

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

This years salary has just been announced and it's brought out the moaners about the TV license. I think around £3 a week to not put up with adverts, the shows produced on TV, sporting events we get and all the many radio stations is a bargain.

Some of the salaries are too much like Lineker for talking Football or Huw Edwards being paid for being off air as a naughty boy when he only reads off an autocue anyway. I don't have issue with Zoe Ball or Greg James. They have to get up at some ungodly hour to do a breakfast show and produce around 20 hours of radio a week. Lauren Laverne is on way too much when she's barely known and hardly seen.

 

[emmer_moans]

Disgusting that Huw Edwards pay has gone UP despite being off air.

 

[IngressUK]

This years salary has just been announced and it's brought out the moaners about the TV license. I think around £3 a week to not put up with adverts, the shows produced on TV, sporting events we get and all the many radio stations is a bargain.

Some of the salaries are too much like Lineker for talking Football or Huw Edwards being paid for being off air as a naughty boy when he only reads off an autocue anyway. I don't have issue with Zoe Ball or Greg James. They have to get up at some ungodly hour to do a breakfast show and produce around 20 hours of radio a week. Lauren Laverne is on way too much when she's barely known and hardly seen.

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I like the note at the bottom.

'Presenters paid by commercially run BBC Studios not included.'

Except for the fact:

1) BBC studios was initially funded with licence payers money, through the sale of merchandise and home media of licence funded material.
2) If BBC studios is commercially run, then why is it still reliant on Licence Payers money? The New EastEnders set was funded by Licence Payers money, despite the fact it is supposedly made by the commercially run BBC Studios.

It is just a game of smoke and mirrors by the BBC. By moving more productions under the 'BBC Studios' banner, means they avoid the scrutiny.

A state/publicly funded broadcaster should not be having 'private', or 'commercial' arms.

The arguments against the BBC being self sufficient and having adverts is incredibly weak, when its 'secondary' channels, such as GOLD and the U& range, already do.

The BBC just wants the best of both worlds whilst maintaining this false pretence it is still a state broadcaster.

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

I like the note at the bottom.

'Presenters paid by commercially run BBC Studios not included.'

Except for the fact:

1) BBC studios was initially funded with licence payers money, through the sale of merchandise and home media of licence funded material.
2) If BBC studios is commercially run, then why is it still reliant on Licence Payers money? The New EastEnders set was funded by Licence Payers money, despite the fact it is supposedly made by the commercially run BBC Studios.

It is just a game of smoke and mirrors by the BBC. By moving more productions under the 'BBC Studios' banner, means they avoid the scrutiny.

A state/publicly funded broadcaster should not be having 'private', or 'commercial' arms.

The arguments against the BBC being self sufficient and having adverts is incredibly weak, when its 'secondary' channels, such as GOLD and the U& range, already do.

The BBC just wants the best of both worlds whilst maintaining this false pretence it is still a state broadcaster.

Yeah the biggest name missing is Graham Norton because BBC don't hire him to host his chat show. The chat show is through the company Graham runs so BBC "buy" the chat show off Graham. Technically his Friday night chat show can switch channels if Graham wanted.

 

[Piff paff puff]

Don't watch beeb if you don't want the BBC giving your money to them the TV license is optional.

 

[Snippysnips]

Don't watch beeb if you don't want the BBC giving your money to them the TV license is optional.

I don't pay the license cause I don't watch anything other than streaming sites, but I do think it's a bit unfair to have to pay it if you are only watching sky/cable when they charge enough as it is, we used to have sky, never watched any BBC content but still needed the license just to get sky movies which is all we used to use it for at the time

It's about time the BBC got put on a subscription service like everything else, let people have the choice if they want it or not, if people only want sky sports or the kids channels or movies etc then they should without having to have a license as well

 

[AllSeeingEye123]

I don't pay the license cause I don't watch anything other than streaming sites, but I do think it's a bit unfair to have to pay it if you are only watching sky/cable when they charge enough as it is, we used to have sky, never watched any BBC content but still needed the license just to get sky movies which is all we used to use it for at the time

It's about time the BBC got put on a subscription service like everything else, let people have the choice if they want it or not, if people only want sky sports or the kids channels or movies etc then they should without having to have a license as well

A subscription service isn't possible. I can't see a way they can make sure people without a TV license aren't listening to BBC radio.

 

[Snippysnips]

A subscription service isn't possible. I can't see a way they can make sure people without a TV license aren't listening to BBC radio.

They could take the loss on it, I mean do most people listen to radio these days anyway? I know the older generation will but everyone I know the first thing they do is put their phones into the car, an I can't see many if any of the younger generation under me listening to radio either, most have music streaming now, I can't tell you the last time I listened to the radio with it's one song every 10 minutes between ads an random rambling from the hosts lol

A subscription service is the only way to make the BBC wake up an actually put effort into their shows, the TV is soaps with it's repeating story lines of who shot who, who's sleeping with who an what disaster can we do at Xmas, the reality shows that's all fixed, an the daytime quiz shows that usually get repeated, we hardly get any new shows now an most are short lived, they have given up putting anything decent on tv, an really listening to a radio without a license is really no different to watching tv without a license, they just need to trust people will pay to listen an watch, there would be nothing stopping me from using a VPN an watching BBC iPlayer without a license, not that I care to watch BBC but just as an example

 

[LadyMuck]

How the hell Zoe Ball gets that's much. She's awful

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

Don't watch beeb if you don't want the BBC giving your money to them the TV license is optional.

I don't watch BBC anymore. Its now crap. Even election night which I saw some of, was rubbish. I refuse to buy a tv licence