Bloated BBC salaries

[Bearnecessity]

Enough is enough stop paying Claudia Winkleman, Gary Linekar and the rest these ridiculous salaries out of public funds it is a disgrace. There is NO justification for it...I would not miss any of them and there are plenty of other people who would do it as well for far less. Nobody can tell me GL deserves £1.75 million. How do these people sleep at night?

The BBC operates in a competitive marketplace and they have to pay competitive salaries to attract the talent. You might not miss certain people but the Beeb would lose market share if all their personalities went elsewhere. I'm afraid I get heartily sick of people bashing the BBC, in my opinion it is an invaluable cultural institution and well worth the public funds it receives.

Also, the BBC makes a profit from selling content to other broadcasters worldwide, so not all the money comes from public funds.

I thought at £670k Graham Norton is a bargain. Easily the best chat show host on TV with brilliant bookers and researchers.

Lauder to be honest I feel the same way about this behaviour on other channels but given the BBCs public funding it grates more. I agree Mister Graham is fab but you know I am sure he would be equally happy with £250k

@LauderSyme agree! Very good point. I think people forget the impact of BBC Worldwide to the overall BBC budget.

I think CBeebies alone is worth the licence fee!

FYI @Bearnecessity ITV, C4 and C5 also receive some public money (though it is not their own revenue source).

You think GN would be equally happy with £250k? 😂

So if I just cut your salary by 60% would you be ‘equally happy’? Or perhaps looking for a job elsewhere that paid market rate?

It's a competitive marketplace as said above. They pay market place salaries.

I agree Mister Graham is fab but you know I am sure he would be equally happy with £250k

hahahahahahahaha! Im sure he wants to take a 500K pay cut

*only even.

That money does come directly from tax and is part of DCMS budget.

C4 has a mandate to provide groundbreaking and controversial programming aimed at younger viewers.

Pay peanuts - get monkeys.

When you're talented, you can name your price.

YABU, OP, and quite bitter too.

Bearnecessity or graham would go to another channel if his salary was cut by that much and the Beeb would lose out on viewing figures.

Graham Norton's renumeration is about £2million as the figures exclude the money from BBC worldwide and indie production companies that make BBC programmes.

'it's a disgrace' is such a mn saying

and a poster was on here a week or so ago complaining about the cost of the eastenders rebuild (which imo is pretty disgraceful ) and they got shot down but people defending it

The publication of BBC salaries was nothing to do with fairness or equality though it shone a spotlight on it. The reason I think was because of a dislike of the BBC for not being as right wing as most of the press and other broadcast media.

Started I think not long after the then Culture Secretary had an embarrassing revelation about his private life.

It's fine if talented people get big bucks (fucking hope the likes of Toss Dully and 'Amanda Hold-on I'm showing off and talking about myself yet again' are drain fodder soon!! (Albeit she's not Beeb!)

The BBC is an example of the bloated excesses that result from a lack of competition [the taxpayer has no choice other than to fund it] and the typical champagne socialist excesses that result. The person above who said it operates in a competitive marketplace - no, it really doesn't. The BBC operates outwith the usual marketplace, protected from market fluctuations and changes of direction. If anything, its influence on salaries is harmful to the market, as it places a higher ceiling on everything.

YANBU.

Stop making excuses for them. There are no great talents in tv presenting, most of them are easily replaced. The budgets that they have makes it much easier for them to appear as great presenters. I do like GN but some of BBC programmes are dire - the sports commenting can be quite dreadful. Most of the presenters haven't even bothered to do their research and give a little bit of background information on the athletes.

I heard something about that earlier today. Someone was saying they'd receive far larger salaries if they went over to ITV!

I'm old enough to remember when the BBC did not pay well at all and were known as stingy.

Hi lucky green eyes cut my pay 60% my family would not survive GN would survive very well on 250k. Anyone offering the arguement of market rate is talking cobblers...my only benchmark is what is decent and right.

Thank you incandescent good to see other folks talking sense.

Sure you need to pay the big bucks for talent. But Gary Lineker- talented- at what. As a footballer maybe, but that was a long time ago. Indefensible.

I agree Foxy I love football, I like Gary Linekar, he was a great and talented footballer, he's a great pundit but there it ends.Catonaswing I am not bitter at all what makes me sad is seeing fantastic people working with SEN kids doing a tough and challenging job bloomin well day in day out, putting themselves often through hell for little or no appreciation let alone pay. Injustice is my issue and the worrying lack everywhere else in society.I could write about many other work sectors that are in the same boat.Many of my colleagues are heros, unsung and underpaid.

So little of their salaries comes from the Licence Fee.

The world wide sales make a vast amount of money for the BEEB. Dancing With the Stars (as SCD is known WW) has paid for Sir Bruce’s (RIP) and Tess’ feed multiple times over.

We could have another channel beholden to advertisers and pure ratings but personally, I prefer to have a national broadcaster unfettered by share holders and the dividend.

Your argument does not stand up.

*fees! Although I’m sure it paid for lunch too!

SinglePringle...have you read the whole thread?