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

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

No, BBC4 is the main channel I watch. Cull BBC1 and keep BBC4. BBC4 is what public broadcasting is all about.

And ditch Greg Wallace too I’m sure John Torode would manage fine on his own

I'm trying to recall the last time I watched anything from the BBC that wasn't CBeebies Bedtime Stories, the news or a major sporting event. I did try out all their radio stations a few weeks ago on the basis that if they have so many of them I was bound to enjoy one; I see the point of Radio 4 but most of the others were just shite.

Stop paying celebrities to go on expensive holidays and turning it into a TV programme as an aside. Open up opportunities to aspiring journalists and actresses/actors from ALL backrounds instead of the same old overpaid faces and old boys network. Bring in some new drama instead of the 1000th remake of Pride and bloody Prejudice.

What are the chances anyone from BBC is reading this?

Dump Fiona Bruce - she renders any show she's on unwatchable
Dump Radio 1 & 2
Keep Radio 3 & 4
Agree re Lineker
Keep BBC Parliament - I watch it because I want info from the horse's mouth rather than having it skewed by a left wing presenter
Keep Wimbledon
Keep Chelsea Flower Show
Dump all soaps and 'comedy'
Keep all tv channels - 4 is one of my favourites
Bring back Top Gear with the original three presenters.

Stop hiring the same. tedious. actors. Seriously, they could go to any drama school and pick up genuine talent, who would do it for peanuts.

Anyone can narrate. Again, acting school or anyone with a nice voice.
Presenters could be found from up and coming you tubers, who again, would probably do it very little. (By very little, I mean a normal persons wage)

If these people start demanding more than their normal wage, sack them and ship in fresh talent. If they are that good, let commercial channels poach them.

Stop screening 'top sports' and put on something actually interesting. Roller derby. Dodge ball. There are plenty of uk sports championships of fun sports that we could be seeing, but it's either football or tennis.

Stop product placement. I include 'celebrities with a new book out' as a product.

I refuse to pay the tv license.

Get rid of Mrs Brows boys.

To those that are saying get rid of sport/Gary Lineker: Sport - football and rugby in particular, bring in a hell of a lot of revenue. Without them, the BBC goes KAPUT.

Maybe they should increase our TV license fees if you'd prefer.

Like it or not, Mrs Browns Boys gets great viewing figures.

Why are people suggesting they ditch their most successful shows?

How do football and rugby make money for the BBC?

It’s not just the ‘talent’ but their demands too. I would look at the Associated expenses: greenrooms, travel etc. In at least one regional radio station presenters demand a new towel each everyday as laundered ones aren’t soft enough. FFS bring your own in, you’re a bloody adult!

The BBC can’t compete with the likes of Netflix and it’s VC money, it needs to go back to prestige.

Discover and develop talent, don’t pay to keep them and their bloated entitlement and egos.

Stop product placement. I include 'celebrities with a new book out' as a product.

Well reminded! This is another turn off.

Definitely can Dooley. Most of the programmes she presents are little more than sub channel 5 level exploitative titillation and prurience, all done with a saccharin head tilt stomping on the human face forever. It's just low rent nastiness and presumably costs a fair bit with all of that jetting about.

Also ditch that twat Ritchie who does the traffic on radio 2. Fair enough it won't save much money but any spend on him is too much.

Calls to dump particular programmes or presenters aren't good ideas as everyone likes different things.
I'd cap the talent wages and bring in more new faces.
The overseas license is a good idea.
I'd take a hard look at where the spend is outside programming eg the taxis!
Go back to innovative programming on bbc 3 & 4
Still cover sports and events as not everyone is able to attend in person!
Invest in more regional programming.
Big fat no to adverts. The bbc needs to be independent from big busines.

Like it or not, Mrs Browns Boys gets great viewing figures.

Compared to other shows on the BBC? Is it possible to get comparisons against Netflix programmes?

It is totally unfair the monopoly that the BBC currently have.
Sky and virgin could and should take point on this and give customers the ability to 'opt out' of the BBC. Customers can do this for movies and sport.
The problem with the BBC is it is very quickly becoming obsolete. The people who run it are complacent and lazy because they know they have a guaranteed income through the licence fee.
All other channels gain income through subscribers and adverts - time for the BBC to shape up or ship out!

Just stop doing so much.

It’s ridiculous. The whole BBC offering has been watered down to such a degree as to seriously impact quality.

Just concentrate on a FEW radio stations - not dozens - and forget about all the shit reality shows - leave that to ITV/C4 etc..
STOP all the bloody BBC Sounds crap.

Stop with all the breathy female presenters talking about depressed people in hamlets.

I’m sick of hearing podcasts which consist of two smug middle class people having a self-congratulatory chat about fuck all for 15 minutes.

Refresh Womans Hour or get rid of it. How many times can you talk about the lesbians / marginalised / trans / refugees / domestic violence victims?

Streamline your offering!

Let’s hear positive stories about strong people, innovators, leaders, heroes/heroins, interesting lives, the talented, the great minds of our time ...

God, that was cathartic.

It doesn't take much doing to identify reams of crap. Can't get worked up about News or CBBC as its a public service broadcaster.
The One Show technically meets its remit but can go for being shite.

Here's a list of just some stuff currently on iPlayer that cannot be justified as serving a public need

Eating With My Ex
I'll Get This
Common People : Cam Girls
Romesh : Talking To Comedians
The Vivienne Takes On Hollywood
Young, Welsh And Pretty Minted
The Rap Game UK
Deadstock : Ultimate Resellers
Jamie Genevieve : A Year In The Life
Who Are You Calling Fat?
Plastic Surgery Undressed

There is just SO much cheaply made tat on there, but they clearly value having loads of content over quality which if they stopped that approach it would all change.

Agree with previous poster that 3 and 4 need to go and the tat on 1 and 2 should be taken over by 3 and 4's better content.

I agree with the others making the point about sending reporters out to stand in front of a building where something is going on. Its completely unnecessary and appalling for the environment. The one that made me think was about a year ago when they'd sent someone half way around the world to stand in front of a building to report on the fact that an eco summit was going on inside. Just shocking.

Sack the same faces who are like a revolving door around the BBC. Few have any actual talent and are obviously part of the inner clique and London party round.

Some of the presenters are really poor and untalented. Like some of the Cbeebie presenters - only the Beeb could employ a presenter to sing, who is tone deaf! Just why, when there will be huge numbers of actors/singers who have ability but never get a sniff of radio/TV work - it must be soul destroying for them.

To those that are saying get rid of sport/Gary Lineker: Sport - football and rugby in particular, bring in a hell of a lot of revenue.

Is it not possible in the UK to watch a game of international football without having to listen to fucking Lineker??

Again, I don't think the BBC shows much sport. Maybe I dismissed rugby (mainly because I don't understand it), but other than Wimbledon what other sport do they still have the broadcast rights to?

i've been reading Emily Maitliss's memoirs: sending reporters to the scene added a huge amount to many of her stories. The stories were what they were because of being on the scene. She was constantly networking & getting stories because she was on the scene & had an impromptu invite to Steve Bannon's house or wherever.

Radio Norfolk is hugely popular (where I live).

Keep/Make the >75s free license means-tested for sure. I'd stick £5 on the regular license fee & tell govt to pay for World Service out of central funds, again.

Those salary scales posted earlier are a bit misleading... Steven Nolan worked 7 d/week and often 2 shifts/day (different shows on different networks), but John Humphys was working < 4d/week. Don't think Eddie Mair or Pienaar even work for BBC now?

so most of you on the same page , it would seem you cannot keep everyone happy all of the time re programming

the salary cap seems popular as does a culling of how many presenters there are to do one show

Complete transparency on salaries above £100k would be nice to see as well as those being paid to a company etc ltd or offshore

And downsize the offering ,I think they are trying to be all things to all people , the majority have access to some other kind of media

aren't most of the presenters "freelance"?

Ditch Jeremy Vine (ideally replace him with Vanessa Feltz) and Steve Wright (and his kiss-arse team), both seriously overpaid, and neither particularly good at what they do.

Ditch Charlie from Casualty. Replace with two blocks of wood; one with puzzled expression drawn on it, one with cross expression drawn on it.