BBC has to save £125million your suggestions please

[billysboy]

So the Beeb has to save a bit of cash any suggestions

mine are as follows

Stop sending out news reporters and their crew everywhere to report from ie the coast when there is a gale or outside a hospital when someone important is being treated

Sack Steve Wright who earns £500k a year and his sycophants

Dont broadcast all night stop at 1 am and restart at 530 am

Get each DJ on the radio stations to report the news and weather - don't need additional people to do a 5 minute segment
@loobyloo1234 who do you think writes that segment? Keeping an eye on what is happening, taking calls for travel news etc?

My suggestion would echo pp's- get rid of the superfluous overpaid presenters, probably 50% of them are not worth their over inflated wages.

But no to getting rid of 6 music to whoever suggested that!! It's the only channel I Iisten to daily. Not all of us want to listen to radio 1 or 2.

For all of you suggesting not to send reporters to the scene - how exactly do they gather the information then? You do realise that they don’t write the script in the office, then head off to read it in front of the hospital / flood / whatever? They go down there, gather the information using sources on the ground, film the footage needed to make the package, edit it on the fly, and then present whilst they’re there.

Ditch Jeremy Vine He's a greedy pain in the arse. He has his own show every morning on CH5. Titting about and making everything about him. Plus Eggheads.

@brassbrass

you might find these interesting:

www.thinkbox.tv/research/barb-data/top-programmes-report/

show's the most popular shows of the week.

MBBs still gets 5+ miilions of viewers for the christmas special.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46619935

i don't suppose you can compare Netflix, as the viewing figures are global - and will report The Crown is watched by 73million households worldwide ( www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-5119803 ) but that;s "all time" - not just one day/eiposdoe.

For all of you suggesting not to send reporters to the scene - how exactly do they gather the information then? You do realise that they don’t write the script in the office, then head off to read it in front of the hospital / flood / whatever? They go down there, gather the information using sources on the ground, film the footage needed to make the package, edit it on the fly, and then present whilst they’re there.

Well my close friends is a news reader and apparently most of the story is written beforehand using online information unless its a breaking news front line type of story. The "summit on climate change is being held today in this building behind me" type of stories are not compiled on the ground.

Ah thanks for those links.

Netflix is a game changer for sure.

Totally agree about punting Jeremy Vine over to Ch5. How on earth did the BBC think he had “a glint in his eye”? Conjunctivitis more like 🤷‍♀️

1 news reader, they don't need a team

I'm still on first page but I think they do. All the newsreaders look knackered and emotionally spent atm. I saw one with big black rings round her eyes recently who looked positively traumatised. They're delivering none stop one topic misery for now. We're told to switch off to help our mental health, they can't.

I don't know how the BBC can't save money atm. They're not filming stuff really are they?

Combine Casualty and Holby, they don't need 2 hospital dramas based in the same hospital! Get rid of Charlie and Jac, they have been around so long they repeat the same story lines and earn a ridiculous amount.

‘My friend is a newsreader...’

You would still need to send someone to the summit to be in the press briefings in case a breaking story emerges. Otherwise the news will become a tedious cycle of rehashed press releases and news agency stories. Ask your newsreader friend if she really thinks reporters can do their jobs entirely from an office.

I odnt understand why all the different radio channels have different news bulletins.

The presenter says 'and here's the BBC News at 1 o'clock' but it's not - its the Radio 1 news, or the Radio 3 News, or the Radio 2 news...why not just have it the same across the board if it's the 'BBC News'

Odd to curate it differently for the different stations. (this doesn't apply the the national and regional local news which do need to be tailored to suit)

That would save some money.

And the orchestras.

I bloody love the BBC. I think this is their time, national emergency and all that.
CBBC produces great factual programs, Deadly 90, All over the place, Horrible Histories, operation ouch. All brilliant brilliant stuff.
Cbeebies is also brilliant and it is a relief not having a tv channel where the kids go "i want that, I want that" all through the adverts.

Things are tricky in kids tv at the moment, they are up against youtube which is barely regulated. Cbeebies and cbbc are regulated and are generally quality programming. Their online bitesize stuff has been great and really useful during lockdown.

Compare the news to Kay (grab you by the throat) burley and (Eamon 5g causes corona) Holmes and the presenters are excellent. Especially Victoria Derbyshire.

I don't know where the money saving is, but i do feel its important to protect.

Ask your newsreader friend if she really thinks reporters can do their jobs entirely from an office.

Well she wouldn't because she works for the BBC... But that doesn't change the fact that according to her most of the work is done away from the scene of where they are reporting. Obviously not if its a breaking news story, that's different.

I love the BBC, they are doing a great job , especially broadcasts for homeschooling atm.
To save money, i would have a pay cap, 500k for presenter salaries is obscene. Even allowing for competition I would think a salary cap of say 200-250k is reasonable, the BBC is a prestigious organisation to work for and that must count for something.
Also perhaps reduce number of presenters on some tv shows, film less programmes abroad, charge for the iPlayer for people living abroad.

Get rid of the children’s channels. That market is served perfectly adequately in the private sector.

David Attenborough, eastenders, cbbies, cbbc and the great British sewing bea can all stay along with some basic news.

Everything else can be axed.

peoplewhoannoyyou why getting rid of BAME programs? Are they particularly expensive or would you just prefer BBC only represents Anglosaxons or Caucasians in their programming? Or is it, as your name might suggest, that BAME people just annoy you?

Oh and no big stars. The BBC should be for up and coming talent, that way they can nurture a future generation and pay low wages. If they start to deserve the big bucks they can go to one of the other channels.

Ditch Jeremy Vine He's a greedy pain in the arse. He has his own show every morning on CH5. Titting about and making everything about him. Plus Eggheads.

I used to love the Wright Stuff, watched it everyday.

Can't bare it now Vine has taken over. He's boring, up himself and a prize prat.

aren't most of the presenters "freelance"?

Because BBC didn't want to put them on their payroll and pay employers NIC, and be on the hook for other employment rights like sick/maternity pay, redundancy, notice, etc etc. At least HMRC are finally tackling the BBC presenters who are really "employees" but pretending to be freelancers for tax reasons!

1. Stop paying talentless presenters.
2. Stop sending news readers to stand outside empty buildings.
3. Make sure news readers don't go walking round farms talking about not walking round farms, especially when talking about a deadly contagious virus.

Axe Eastenders with immediate effect

Any decent and/or popular shows they have would just get picked up elsewhere. Like fleabag or some of the dramas they've had, strictly (not my taste but popular), top gear.

So actually you could scrap it all and just keep it public broadcasting - major world sport, news, politics educational. But keep Eastenders. Can't see anyone else taking it but don't wanna lose it.

I must speak out in support of keeping EastEnders on. I have had to endure watching it for years as dd pronounced herself a fan, and the only thing that's kept me going this past month is looking forward to the entirety of Albert Square gets wiped out by covid. Like fuck am I missing that payoff after half a decade of misery.