FabSwingers.com forum: bbc top earners

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

wow some very overpaid people working in the bbc about time it became self funded I think ...what do you think ? and play nice as its only a opinion

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

It's a fantastic system to have in the UK - far better than USA television imo. I've not seen all the figures but they will have to pay competitively, otherwise stars bugger off. I'd probably cut Chris Evans down.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's a fantastic system to have in the UK - far better than USA television imo. I've not seen all the figures but they will have to pay competitively, otherwise stars bugger off. I'd probably cut Chris Evans down."
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What to 5ft 8

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By *rman82Man
over a year ago

Manchester

I love the BBC but do think It's had its time. Personally to insist that people pay I think is wrong. It's archives should be maintained at a cost paid by the people but going forward id scrap the fee and introduce adverts. Maybe just between programmes rather than half way through.

Let people pay if they want it, I think a lot of people still would and with the advert revenues they would probably be able to produce even more top quality television.

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By *hips n FursMan
over a year ago

Huddersfield

Good luck to them,I wouldn't turn it down.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

This story gets churned out every year when the Beeb release their financials. *sigh*

You would be horrified if you saw what Sky, BT and even ITV pay. Think of the highest BBC wage and double it.

The BBC is quite unique and the way it's funded allows it to not have to compete directly and can be more experimental in it's programming (in theory, not always the case). Why would we want it to be turned into another commercial TV station like ITV?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How much should be people payed.

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By *ingle ex cuckMan
over a year ago

chester

I can't stand the BBC anyone who pays 147 pounds a year is funding the salarys of that list

if you think your getting value for money then keep paying

when they commersialise bbc then I will but a TV

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"This story gets churned out every year when the Beeb release their financials. *sigh*

You would be horrified if you saw what Sky, BT and even ITV pay. Think of the highest BBC wage and double it.

this is the first time that peoples salaries have actually been made public

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By *uthTVDerbysTV/TS
over a year ago

Derby

Chris Evans. Proof that being a ham shanker really can pay off if you put enough effort in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Personally I love the BBC

However if I were them I would set a salary ceiling of say 300k.

The BBC are the king pins of programme making and its presenters, if they wish to move on, let them, there's plenty more fish in the sea the BBC could bring through.

Of course it will never be implemented because the person implementing it would be cutting their own salary to 300k... Big money whispers in everybody's ear not just the presenters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hate adverts as it is. I look at it as a subscription. I listen to the radio and use the online services. As far as I am concerned it is good value. Certainly better than any of Murdoch's offerings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have to agree that it's good value for money! What they are getting paid compared to commercial TV presenters is a big difference.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

"This story gets churned out every year when the Beeb release their financials. *sigh*

You would be horrified if you saw what Sky, BT and even ITV pay. Think of the highest BBC wage and double it.

this is the first time that peoples salaries have actually been made public"

They release the salaries every year. This is the first year they have put names to the salaries. (Every year the newspapers put the names on anyway)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Personally I'm not a fan of the BBC. I don't watch their shows, I think the news coverage has gone downhill shockingly in the last 10yrs and tend to get all my news from the internet these days.

I do resent having to pay a licence fee to them when I do not use their service.

On occasion that I do watch TV I tend to watch hallmark, slutty one or SyFi or some other cable channel via my Virgin box, never the BBC, so why am I expected to fund them, then pay an additional charge to the cable operator for the channels I do want?

Personally I would like to see the licence fee abolished and a subscription suffice introduced. Then I can choose who to give my money to. For me, the BBC is not value for money.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just a thought but if the BBC paid less....would the commercial stations not feel they had to offer too much to take them away?

I think if there was a ceiling in the BBC at may drop the pay across the board and maybe just maybe it would cut the costs to the consumer in the likes of sky.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We do get more for our money now as we have Bbc iPlayer too, I,m not a fan of Chris Evans though, he's a has been. XXX

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't pay TV licence. Political reasons for that. I do however think that in this day and age many are paying double for much of the beebs output.

Pay your licence fee.

Pay your Sky/ virgin etc bill which includes BBC (that they will be charging Sky etc to host).

So effectively paying twice. IMO

It's about time it was left to stand in its own two feet.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

"Just a thought but if the BBC paid less....would the commercial stations not feel they had to offer too much to take them away?

I think if there was a ceiling in the BBC at may drop the pay across the board and maybe just maybe it would cut the costs to the consumer in the likes of sky."

Every year THIS...

- BBC find & nurture talent.

- Pay talent accordingly.

- National newspapers lose their sht over it.

- Rival channel poaches talent.

- National newspaper then blame BBC.

Rinse and repeat. They can't win.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just a thought but if the BBC paid less....would the commercial stations not feel they had to offer too much to take them away?

I think if there was a ceiling in the BBC it may drop the pay across the board and maybe just maybe it would cut the costs to the consumer in the likes of sky."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think the TV licence is fantastic value, from websites through to much quality programming both on TV and radio. I think it should be treasured instead of being constantly sniped at. Releasing salaries of individuals is pointless, unless ITV and Sky release their's then there is no way to discern if BBC is paying more or less than the going rate. The only people it benefits is the competition, they now know what it might take to prize big stars away.

Support the BBC, it's great.

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By *rnortholtMan
over a year ago

Waveney Valley

"Just a thought but if the BBC paid less....would commercial stations not feel they had to offer too much to take them away?

I think if there was a ceiling in the BBC at may drop the pay across the board and maybe just maybe it would cut the costs to the consumer in the likes of sky."

If that were the case, football wouldn't be creaming it in, the way it is.

Even before BT got into the game, Sky were already paying a fortune because it would bring in the audience and hence the advertising.

Also, don't forget it's a global market with various uk talent like James Corden being snapped up by US broadcatsers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To be fair to Chris evans i think he keeps 8 million in the bank or close to that. The rest of his fees are given to charity!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think the TV licence is fantastic value, from websites through to much quality programming both on TV and radio. I think it should be treasured instead of being constantly sniped at. Releasing salaries of individuals is pointless, unless ITV and Sky release their's then there is no way to discern if BBC is paying more or less than the going rate. The only people it benefits is the competition, they now know what it might take to prize big stars away.

Support the BBC, it's great."

Yep but they now know they can offer a lot less.

So as I'm thinking it may benefit consumers as they have a starting point now....as opposed to guess work.

As I said just a thought

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chris Evans is well overpaid, dunno why there's such a gap between him and the next one under him.

Is it just the radio show he does now or is he involved in anything else?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I can't stand the BBC anyone who pays 147 pounds a year is funding the salarys of that list

if you think your getting value for money then keep paying

when they commersialise bbc then I will but a TV "

I pay the licence fee and i think it offers good value for money. I don't care how much these people earn and i think making it public only gives the BBC's competitors an unfair advantage. I wouldn't want my income made public, people should mind their own business.

I hate commercial television, have you noticed how much longer and more frequent the commercial breaks are becoming?

Pretty soon we'll spend longer watching this drivel than the programmes we actually enjoy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just a thought but if the BBC paid less....would the commercial stations not feel they had to offer too much to take them away?

I think if there was a ceiling in the BBC at may drop the pay across the board and maybe just maybe it would cut the costs to the consumer in the likes of sky.

Every year THIS...

- BBC find & nurture talent.

- Pay talent accordingly.

- National newspapers lose their sht over it.

- Rival channel poaches talent.

- National newspaper then blame BBC.

Rinse and repeat. They can't win."

Exactly this! We'll said

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"This story gets churned out every year when the Beeb release their financials. *sigh*

You would be horrified if you saw what Sky, BT and even ITV pay. Think of the highest BBC wage and double it.

thank you for saying this...

If the bbc have to release their top earners, then i think that newspapers should release the figures of that some of there top earning columnists make....

then you wouldn't make the complaints about what the bbc pay...

how much do you think sky or itv are paying some of their poeple....

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By *atasha_DavidCouple
over a year ago

Slough

Boris Johnson for instance?

£250,000 for a column a week in the telegraph.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

for example.... remember when the old top gear people left..... what were itv and channel 4 prepared to pay the likes of clarkson before he swanned off to amazon...

some people like to bash the bbc just for the sake of bashing....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have no issue with the figures being released, and without having seen the figures (I'm loading the page as I type) I'm not too fussed either.

I think the license represents value for money and my biggest issue is not being about to get the local news in HD. I think as first world problems go............

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By *atasha_DavidCouple
over a year ago

Slough

Micheal Gove

weekly newspaper column, and other articles on request, for The Times. Expected remuneration of £150,000 a year in return for an average of 8 hrs per week. This contract is for twelve months.

£360 per hour!

So assuming an average 40 hour week any member of BBC staff earning less than £725,000 is earning less per hour than Micheal Gove does for his paper round

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What to 5ft 8"

that made me snigger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jeremy Vine was cut down to size today on this topic,

one caller called him to ground on this, asked him direct if he felt ashamed that the average hard working manual worker worked all hours of the day, working through injuries and basically breaking their back to earn a poor wage whilst he happily pockets £750,000

Jeremy vine was indeed embarrassed about the situation

only thing worth watching on BBC is the news, although that is biased with its reporting in many cases.

TV licence should simply be optional, let the people who use BBC products pay, and those who wish not to use the products boycott payment

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"for example.... remember when the old top gear people left..... what were itv and channel 4 prepared to pay the likes of clarkson before he swanned off to amazon...

some people like to bash the bbc just for the sake of bashing...."

Why should people who do not use BBC products have to pay TV license

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Laura Kuenssberg doesn't get paid enough imo, on election night she was looking down for literally 2 seconds and one of her tweets came up on my Twitter feed.

I'm pretty sure she was tweeting while speaking at one point

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Give me the BBC over the likes of sky any day.I refuse to give that cockroach Murdoch a penny.The BBC finds great talent.If it wasn't for them you would have shite commercial tv with very little talent being nurtured.Some of the best natural history documentaries ever made would never have been made.Look what murdoch did with national geographic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Jeremy Vine was cut down to size today on this topic,

Jeremy vine was indeed embarrassed about the situation

only thing worth watching on BBC is the news, although that is biased with its reporting in many cases.

TV licence should simply be optional, let the people who use BBC products pay, and those who wish not to use the products boycott payment "

I think that is disingenuous, the two things have no relation to one another.

The reason why Vine gets paid so much is that he excels in his field, has honed his craft and has a proven track record. Not many people have the skills and intellect he does in order to do his job. On the other hand, anyone physically capable can do manual labour, yes I'd like it if they were paid more, but the pool of people able to do a job dictates salary. We live in a capitalist society.

Mr Vine has nothing to be embarrassed about.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Give me the BBC over the likes of sky any day.I refuse to give that cockroach Murdoch a penny.The BBC finds great talent.If it wasn't for them you would have shite commercial tv with very little talent being nurtured.Some of the best natural history documentaries ever made would never have been made.Look what murdoch did with national geographic."

The difference being;

You can choose not to pay / subscribe to Sky

Your Choice

You Must pay the BBC, whether you watch or not

no option, even if you do not use BBC products

is this fair, seems the BBC are more a cockroach than your Murdoch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hear, hear.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Jeremy Vine was cut down to size today on this topic,

Jeremy vine was indeed embarrassed about the situation

only thing worth watching on BBC is the news, although that is biased with its reporting in many cases.

TV licence should simply be optional, let the people who use BBC products pay, and those who wish not to use the products boycott payment

I think that is disingenuous, the two things have no relation to one another.

Mr Vine has nothing to be embarrassed about. "

excuse me sign8

How many times has Vine had people filling in for him this year alone, doing his show while he swans off on other projects, kind of defeats your arguement

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sky used to charge the BBC to air their channels.

The beeb works out £2.80 a week, which is less than a brew n biscuit

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

"This story gets churned out every year when the Beeb release their financials. *sigh*

You would be horrified if you saw what Sky, BT and even ITV pay. Think of the highest BBC wage and double it.

thank you for saying this...

If the bbc have to release their top earners, then i think that newspapers should release the figures of that some of there top earning columnists make....

then you wouldn't make the complaints about what the bbc pay...

how much do you think sky or itv are paying some of their poeple...."

Zactly, for instance Sky payed Thierry Henry 4 MILLION last year to do a bit of pundetry.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Laura Kuenssberg doesn't get paid enough imo, on election night she was looking down for literally 2 seconds and one of her tweets came up on my Twitter feed.

I'm pretty sure she was tweeting while speaking at one point "

Mmmm smart, sexy and can use her mouth and hands independently

Sounds like my sort of woman

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Free if your over 75

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

people always think of the bbc as just stuff they watch on TV...

you may not like there news department, but compared to what the rest of the world does, it is spectactular..

and then there is their radio coverage... i am a fan of local radio and the work it does,

the website.....

the natural history unit and the great programming they make....

the childrens unit.... you might nor watch any of the programming now.... but i bet you did when you were growing up......

they are a public service programmer... if you want to only watch stuff that makes money... watch ITV, watch Sky, Listen to commercial radio.... its different sorts of programming

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"people always think of the bbc as just stuff they watch on TV...

you may not like there news department, but compared to what the rest of the world does, it is spectactular..

and then there is their radio coverage... i am a fan of local radio and the work it does,

the website.....

the natural history unit and the great programming they make....

the childrens unit.... you might nor watch any of the programming now.... but i bet you did when you were growing up......

they are a public service programmer... if you want to only watch stuff that makes money... watch ITV, watch Sky, Listen to commercial radio.... its different sorts of programming "

Yes but you have no choice of paying to watch

You must pay regardless, whether you want the service or not

If you own a TV and you are under 75, everyone must pay the BBC and in turn pay the likes of Chris Evans even when you detest the fella, you still have to pay his wage

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"people always think of the bbc as just stuff they watch on TV...

you may not like there news department, but compared to what the rest of the world does, it is spectactular..

and then there is their radio coverage... i am a fan of local radio and the work it does,

the website.....

the natural history unit and the great programming they make....

the childrens unit.... you might nor watch any of the programming now.... but i bet you did when you were growing up......

they are a public service programmer... if you want to only watch stuff that makes money... watch ITV, watch Sky, Listen to commercial radio.... its different sorts of programming

Yes but you have no choice of paying to watch

You must pay regardless, whether you want the service or not

If you own a TV and you are under 75, everyone must pay the BBC and in turn pay the likes of Chris Evans even when you detest the fella, you still have to pay his wage"
I havent watched Cbbc or cbeebies for a decade with my kids but i am happy to pay for the kids who watch today.

I think Mr tumble should get paid more.

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By *retty womanWoman
over a year ago

Near Bournemouth

No contract, simply put!!

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By *ice_chocolateMan
over a year ago

Leamington Spa

This is the only Country in the big wide world I see one have to have a licence to watch television, what a joke. I personally think you people need to travel more to see that they are taking you all for fools. The BBC advertise overseas and make profit from doing so like many other networks. Personally I would never pay for it and will never pay for it so they can take me to court. The letters come through the door and they go straight into the bin period, on principle. Television is not a luxury hence they can go to hell.

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"This is the only Country in the big wide world I see one have to have a licence to watch television, what a joke. I personally think you people need to travel more to see that they are taking you all for fools. The BBC advertise overseas and make profit from doing so like many other networks. Personally I would never pay for it and will never pay for it so they can take me to court. The letters come through the door and they go straight into the bin period, on principle. Television is not a luxury hence they can go to hell."

I heard a story a few years ago that in Germany it's added to your council tax (their equivalent) and you pay towards it that way.

I'm happy to pay towards, nature, cooking, sport and the news programmes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I heard a story a few years ago that in Germany it's added to your council tax (their equivalent) and you pay towards it that way.

I'm happy to pay towards, nature, cooking, sport and the news programmes.

you mean; you are happy to "pay a corrupt BBC"

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

"This story gets churned out every year when the Beeb release their financials. *sigh*

You would be horrified if you saw what Sky, BT and even ITV pay. Think of the highest BBC wage and double it.

Actually commercial stations pay "similar but less".

Difference is the BBC is funded by the tax payer and therefore civil servants. For their comparators in the private sector to be on less makes their salaries obscene.

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

I heard a story a few years ago that in Germany it's added to your council tax (their equivalent) and you pay towards it that way.

I'm happy to pay towards, nature, cooking, sport and the news programmes.

you mean; you are happy to "pay a corrupt BBC""

Yeah. I completely wrongly worded and completely misspelled what I ment.

I suppose I started writing 35 years ago and in all that time this is the very first time I wrote two small paragraphs of text when what I ment to say was 'I'm happy to pay a corrupt bbc'.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The BBC would be delighted to not have to be dependant on the licence fee. Research shows that on a voluntary subscription model they would be far better off and not be subject to the whims of their political masters.

The other broadcasters would hate it which is why the clamour from them over the licence fee is now so muted.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The BBC would be delighted to not have to be dependant on the licence fee. Research shows that on a voluntary subscription model they would be far better off and not be subject to the whims of their political masters.

The other broadcasters would hate it which is why the clamour from them over the licence fee is now so muted."

lol, this must be a wind up,

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By *ingle ex cuckMan
over a year ago

chester

"wow some very overpaid people working in the bbc about time it became self funded I think ...what do you think ? and play nice as its only a opinion"

do you pay a TV licence ? are you mad?

or just filthy rich ?

your paying there salarys

more fool you

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