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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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Sparklingbrook · 30/04/2020 14:04

He does the breakfast show on Radio 1 @bettybattenburg I am so far out of the target audience it’s untrue but the whole show is highly entertaining and a good start to the day. 7-11 at the moment.
Also he’s quite easy on the eye but obviously you don’t see that. Blush

brassbrass · 30/04/2020 14:04

We need a reality show where we can vote off annoying and useless presenters. I think the beeb would get a real measure of their worth very quickly.

Sparklingbrook · 30/04/2020 14:07

Sounds great @brassbrass what would we call it and who would present? Grin

DollyDoneMore · 30/04/2020 14:10

Just a reminder... the topic is about how to save £125m a year.

The answer is therefore not “axe a programme I don’t like.”

(Believe me, I am no fan of The One Show, but it will be a cost-efficient way of filling three hours of prime-time every week.)

Neither is the answer “sack someone earning hundreds of thousands pounds a year.”

(Especially when they are people who no longer work for the BBC like Steph McGovern or Jonathan Ross.)

brassbrass · 30/04/2020 14:10

Call it TwatOff.

No presenters just candidates and numbers for voting. Would be the fastest reality show in history. No stupid pauses for dramatic build up allowed either.

DollyDoneMore · 30/04/2020 14:13

What on earth does Vanessa Feltz get paid £355 million for ?

Are you Priti Patel?

Sparklingbrook · 30/04/2020 14:15

TwatOff. Perfect.

The One Show is unwatchable. The guests always look bewildered. You get a really good sleb on to be interviewed. Great! Except they cut off after 5 minutes to go to a piece with Gyles Brandreth about liquorice farming or something. Angry

KaronAVyrus · 30/04/2020 14:18

The One Show is like Blue Peter but for adults only it’s not as good.

recrudescence · 30/04/2020 14:19

I am no fan of The One Show, but it will be a cost-efficient way of filling three hours of prime-time every week.

A brain-injured monkey gurning on a loop would be more cost-efficient. And more interesting.

KaronAVyrus · 30/04/2020 14:21

The only reason anyone watches the One Show is because they can’t be bothered to find the remote control. It’s background noise whilst we all mindlessly scroll through the internet.

fivesecondrule · 30/04/2020 14:22

It's amazing how so many people have the same views about certain presenters- not just on this thread talking to friends/ other websites etc. so why are the BBC not listening to its audience?

Morred · 30/04/2020 14:23

I agree keep the children’s channels but do we need the continuity presenters? Certainly my toddler couldn’t gaf about them - just show the programmes back to back. That’d cut a bit?

AgeLikeWine · 30/04/2020 14:26

Like all public sector organisations, the BBC will always cut services before it cuts its own internal bureaucracy. The BBC could save countless millions by sacking layers of middle managers who do very little actual work but full their days by having pointless meeting with one another. Get rid of them and run a much, much leaner flatter organisation.

aerosocks · 30/04/2020 14:27

Sport. Way too much of it. Especially the 'experts' all sitting round and yacking for an eternity about it instead of showing the actual thing take place.

Stop buying all those depressing 'somebody's been kidnapped/murdered' dramas. Enough already.

Stop sending reporters and camera crews and outside broadcast vans all over the place just so the presenter can stand outside a random building somewhere to comment on something that could have been covered perfectly well in the studio (and considerably more safely than in a war zone for instance).

Give over with the terrible talent shows. Let ITV do all that, they are better at it. And I don't care about Strictly, it's had its day.

AllesAusLiebe · 30/04/2020 14:30

The BBC covers hardly any sport. They've only got Wimbledon and that weird fucking boat race thing left!

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 30/04/2020 14:31

Yes, agree with a lot of posters, a salary cap needs to be in place.

And stop sending chefs on food tours! BBC funded holidays hmm I don't need to see some rich bloke sitting in Italy sampling a red wine he could probably buy in Waitrose.

Oh don't get me started on the free jollies! How tf did they justify sending Mr Fucking Maker on a ROUND THE WORLD TRIP to just make shite out of goggly eyes and toilet roll in a minute! He could have filmed that on his kitchen table! He must have some serious dirt on someone high up

Newgirls · 30/04/2020 14:36

Cut salaries - people are queuing up for those jobs - complete madness

Clem90 · 30/04/2020 14:37

Don’t have the likes of Loraine Kelly and Eamon Holmes narrating programmes on CBeebies.

brassbrass · 30/04/2020 14:37

The only reason anyone watches the One Show is because they can’t be bothered to find the remote control. It’s background noise whilst we all mindlessly scroll through the internet.

😮Wash your mouth out! This is not a transgression that can be defended! They can easily watch catchup, Netflix, Rakuten, prime, something else they recorded...

emmcan · 30/04/2020 14:38

Ditch the ridiculous license fee and start selling adverts.

MrsKypp · 30/04/2020 14:39

I agree with the person who said scrap the expensive sport like Wimbledon.

I also agree about capping wages at a sensible level.

Fewer channels so they can streamline - only include the better stuff.

Scrap crap stuff like Strictly, cooking, reality, game shows, anecdotal news stories, etc

mogtheexcellent · 30/04/2020 14:42

Cbeebies Bedtime stories has a small yearly budget. Most people waive their very small, all are paid the same rate, fee to do it.

Glastonbury coverage can do one. Also the eurovision and anything with graham norton/jonathan ross.

Does anyone listen to the local stations?

TooTrueToBeGood · 30/04/2020 14:46

Rather than chipping away at individual salaries or programs they'd be better culling some of their channels. It's quite an eye-opener how many they've actually got:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBC_television_channels_and_radio_stations

They could cull BBC 4 and put some of its content into the two main channels, removing some of the guff to make space.

BBC News. I am an avid viewer but it's just habit. If they make sure space news programs between the 3 main channels there should be plenty of opportunities for people to catch it.

BBC Parliament. How many people even watch this?

BBC 2 Wales. Why do they need two welsh language channels?

It would also be interesting to know how many of the regional radio and TV stations/channels attract enough listeners/viewers to justify their existence.

awaynboilyurheid · 30/04/2020 14:46

Oh yes forgot Stacy Dooley who ever thought she could present documentaries?