BBC salaries published. Oh dear...

Ravenous

Look on the bright side; today's a good day to bury bad news.  (Government's pension age reviews today.)

Fretwired

Dopesick said:

Jesus Christ is that guy STILL in Casualty? Has he been there from the start?

He can't afford to leave ... pay in the real NHS is shocking ..

fretmeister

I'm far more disturbed by the fact that Danny Dyer gets paid in the same bracket as the BBC's general counsel Sarah Jones.

Former senior associate from Allen & Ovary -v- bloke who says "fuck off you slags" a lot.

Fretwired

fretmeister said:

I'm far more disturbed by the fact that Danny Dyer gets paid in the same bracket as the BBC's general counsel Sarah Jones.

Former senior associate from Allen & Ovary -v- bloke who says "fuck off you slags" a lot.

:-)

East Enders in tough ... the scripts are depressing enough to turn you into an alcoholic ... that's Danny's excuse ...

Sporky

I wonder; if they made the soaps a bit less grim and confrontational, would people be nicer?

Chalky

Fretwired said:

:-)

Yes but his annual BBC salary is still a bit less than what Hugh Laurie got paid per episode on House.

TimmyO

I couldn't give a fig what they get paid - it's no more or less relevant than what they might pay to buy a show in or get the rights to make something - it's the product. 

Salaries of the execs, yes I get why we'd care about that, but for the content and the creatives, just get on with it. 

Strat54

peteri said:

Oh - and £500k for Steve Wright? FFS!

No wonder he's the size of a house these days!

sinbaadi

The channel has a budget to spend how it sees fit.
It's going to do what it feels will best serve the future of programming on that channel and therefore the bbc.  If that means keeping Chris Evans and Gary Lineker from going somewhere else then so be it.  That's the business!

So they decide to cut all the salaries by 90%.  All the talent goes elsewhere.  A load of pretenders and wannabes come along, BBC saving a fortune.  One or two are amazing, the best screen personalities ever, so sky and itv come calling.  BBC decides to offer a pay rise to keep them for another year because they make the channel what it is.  They find more great presenters etc and sky keep trying to poach them.  Where do you think we will be in 10 years from that point?  Answer, paying the market dictated rates to the perceived talent and big names.
You can disagree about who is worth it relative to the others but not the amounts.

bingefeller

It's sickening that Lineker who earns so much should pontificate about mass immigration and want see social housing going to illegal migrants rather than poor and deserving citizens in this country. Let them eat crisps, seems to be the message from on high. . And to think we pay them this much to preach EU and Left Wing propaganda at us..... Time to stop paying them !!

FX_Munkee

bingefeller said:

It's sickening that Lineker who earns so much should pontificate about mass immigration and want see social housing going to illegal migrants rather than poor and deserving citizens in this country. Let them eat crisps, seems to be the message from on high. . And to think we pay them this much to preach EU and Left Wing propaganda at us..... Time to stop paying them !!

Daily Mail Comments section is that way -->

Funkfingers

bingefeller said:
Let them eat crisps

Wise words.

Ravenous

bingefeller said:

Let them eat crisps, seems to be the message from on high.

+wisdom.

bingefeller said:

Time to stop paying them !!

I haven't owned a telly for a few years, so in a way I'm not. (Though I do own some BBC telly stuff on DVD so maybe I have.)

chillidoggy

Dopesick said:

Jesus Christ is that guy STILL in Casualty? Has he been there from the start?

It's wonder they haven't gotten round to seeing him yet, but what with the Tory cuts to the NHS, it's hardly surprising.

Sporky

bingefeller said:

It's sickening that Lineker who earns so much should pontificate about mass immigration and want see social housing going to illegal migrants rather than poor and deserving citizens in this country.

When did he say that?

fretmeister

bingefeller said:

It's sickening that Lineker who earns so much should pontificate about mass immigration and want see social housing going to illegal migrants rather than poor and deserving citizens in this country. Let them eat crisps, seems to be the message from on high. . And to think we pay them this much to preach EU and Left Wing propaganda at us..... Time to stop paying them !!

Can you point out where

1: Lineker used an official BBC twitter account to do those things; and
2: Where it says that because he is paid by the state he, as a voter, isn't entitled to his own opinion on political matters?

fretmeister

robgilmo

A nice show of how public money feeds the rich, when I worked for the BBC the amount of money claimed through expences was nothing short of criminal, you will be happy to know your license money was put to good use supplying film crews with fags, booze and cocain.

Fretwired

fretmeister said:

Fine, but:

The population has increased and so has the income the BBC receives.

BBC Worldwide was formed in the 1990s and last year it gave the BBC £220 million in 1997 the figure for 1997 was £84 million at 2014 prices.

The BBC also gets around £250 million in grants from the government (partly funds the World Service) which wasn't around in its present form in 1997.

The BBC makes another £100 million a year in royalties.

So the BBC has other revenue streams .

Licence fee revenue is falling so something will have to give. TV is dying as people switch to online services. The BBC should have a subscription-based service via iPlayer. People could buy it overseas and the BBC's revenue would rocket.

robgilmo

Perhaps they need to stop being a biased propaghanda machine.