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BBC has to save £125million your suggestions please

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billysboy · 30/04/2020 10:37

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

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1Morewineplease · 30/04/2020 10:53

I shouldn’t like the beeb to have ad breaks but maybe, like on ITV etc... have programmes sponsored by companies.

Maybe reduce the amount that the beeb spends on the rights to various sporting events too.

User721 · 30/04/2020 10:53

Cut expensive salaries, start with Gary Lineker
cut the numbers of presenters at outside broadcasts e.g at Glastonbury you don't need any prsenters there, just film the bands playing and broadcast that.
Cancel Eastenders.

coldwarenigma · 30/04/2020 10:53

oh yeah, decriminalise licence!

LellyMcKelly · 30/04/2020 10:53

Get rid of Wimbledon and Jonathan Ross. Shut at night, get rid of a few channels. Do they really need CBeebies and CBBC? Advertising between programmes...there’s loads they could do. Keep Graham Norton. I don’t care if they blow the whole budget on him. He’s worth it.

SomewhereNow · 30/04/2020 10:54

Nooo don't get rid of the Bedtime Stories, Tom Hardy is one of the only things I have to look forward to atm - and I haven't even got young kids Blush Grin

Starlink16 · 30/04/2020 10:55

Stop paying Gary Linneker, Jonathn Ross etc ludicrous salaries. Easy. Done. Halving 3 or 4 of them would do it wouldnt it?

Cyllie33 · 30/04/2020 10:55

Stop sending reporters out and just deliver the news

Haaaa, how do you think the news is found?

1 news reader, they don't need a team

They’d get really tired tho wouldn’t they, working 24/7 365 days a year?

fivesecondrule · 30/04/2020 10:55

I totally agree with Mrs Browns Boys too- How on earth did a whole family of actors (most of them are related) got a prime time slot on the BBC and then were able to offshore their income to avoid paying tax???

LeaveItBarbara · 30/04/2020 10:56

I'm not so bothered about the celebrity salaries as much as the huge numbers of invisible middle management positions with incomprehensible job descriptions around ideas/vision/reach/content/market positioning, etc.

User721 · 30/04/2020 10:56

I dont know if this is still the case but about 8 years, my dh was job hunting and we looked at the BBC job vacancies, the amount of paper pushing bullshit jobs was incredible. I wonder if this is still the case? Probably

Kazzyhoward · 30/04/2020 10:57

Get rid of the "newsreaders" who think & act like they're celebrities and want silly money for doing so. Fiona Bruce, Laura Kuenssberg, Steph Mc Govern, Naga, etc. They're nothing special. Plenty of local newsreaders/reporters who are far better at a fraction of the price.

Smoggles · 30/04/2020 10:58

I agree to stop sending reporters to the 'scene', it adds nothing of any value.
Stop paying people ridiculous amounts of money, a lot of people watch for the programmes not the presenters.
Scrap doctors.
Have a really thorough review of all of the channels and radio stations, we don't need that many- some are very similar and you could get the same content but over fewer stations.
Take more chances on new talent, they should obviously still get a fair wage, but nothing like the £££s some get just because they've been doing the same old thing for many years.
Move to adverts and subscription based models, the license fee is outdated, especially now they are quite politically biased and not neutral as they should be.

LaurieMarlow · 30/04/2020 10:58

Do they really need CBeebies and CBBC?

Fucking yes!

coldwarenigma · 30/04/2020 10:58

Cyllie at a time Grin

The Two Ronnies springs to mind when there is more than one Wink

Smoggles · 30/04/2020 10:59

Stop sending reporters out and just deliver the news. Haaaa, how do you think the news is found?

But does having them stand outside a hospital, or in front of a closed road add anything of value? Anything at all?

mummmy2017 · 30/04/2020 11:00

So since all the "stars" are not working are they all still being paid?

iVampire · 30/04/2020 11:00
  • salary cap
  • paid subscriptions to iPlayer in selected countries (my Aussie friends would love to access it)
  • look at use of back catalogue (including broadcasting it instead of imports, as well as sales and terms of licensing agreements)
  • align World Service with DfiD and FCO priorities and re-examine how to find this
  • make single presenter programming the norm
  • sharply reduced the pre-and post-match commentating - people time in for the game not the pundits
Smoggles · 30/04/2020 11:00

CBeebies and CBBC are the best thing about the BBC! They surely make a lot of money from toys and merchandising deals?

brassbrass · 30/04/2020 11:00

Just cut all the ridiculous inflated salaries. Bring in many more presenters at a lower rate so we don't have to suffer the small handful who get every fucking job.

Quite frankly if it went under I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. It's a corrupt and dirty organisation that turns it's back on sleaze, paedos, misogyny, bullying and doesn't like to pay for ideas stealing them from independent producers/directors.

RedskyAtnight · 30/04/2020 11:02

Stop random trips abroad that don't particularly add anything to the programme and seem to be mostly an excuse for a jolly. (if random trips abroad are even allowed in the future ...) e.g. on a food show we don't need the presenter to go to multiple countries to see where food is grown.

araiwa · 30/04/2020 11:03

Stick £5 or whatever on license fee per year

brassbrass · 30/04/2020 11:03

kazzyhoward you named all women why is that? They mostly get paid less than the men. Why aren't you claiming the same for the male counterparts?

Kazzyhoward · 30/04/2020 11:03

Actually CBeebies and cBBC are the best childrens progs

That's a matter of personal opinion. My son watched a bit of Cbeebies when he was a toddler but was never interested in anything on CBBC. I personally thought Cbeebies was a load of politically correct claptrap. DS spent most of his early TV watching days on Channel 5's milkshake and Nickolodeon. Then he moved onto "proper" TV on Dave, National Geopgraphic and other Freeview channels- a weird mix of Top Gear repeats, scrapheap challenge, David Attenburgh, Robot Wars, Ice Truckers etc. By the time we was around 10, he'd stopped watching TV completely!

StoorieHoose · 30/04/2020 11:03

No decent dramas? Good god what a load of shite! There are loads on BBC and they eventually find their way to Netflix. Netflix content will be the poorer if there are no BBC dramas to show

Kazzyhoward · 30/04/2020 11:06

you named all women why is that? They mostly get paid less than the men. Why aren't you claiming the same for the male counterparts?

Personally, I don't find the BBC's male newsreaders/reporters anywhere near as attention seeking and sleb wannabees. They don't make it "all about them" in the same way that those I mentioned always seem to do.