BBC to Reveal Stars Earnings
Discussion
TwigtheWonderkid said:
So we sack Lineker and want to replace him with someone cheaper but with similar skills and personal experience to call upon.
So we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Why does he need to be an ex player? His predecessor wasn'tSo we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Why does he need to be slim? His predecessor wasn't
Why does he need to appeal to women on looks?
Well liked in general? Prior to becoming a lead activist on the far end of a political spectrum he probably was- would Sky have stood for their presenter doing this? When a large part of the viewer-base is known to be centre right?
Lineker was brought in by the BBC, and trained up by them. Not anything near irreplaceable.
SpeckledJim said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
So we sack Lineker and want to replace him with someone cheaper but with similar skills and personal experience to call upon.
So we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Doesn't matter if he's an ex-player. Not many sports hosts are.So we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Doesn't matter if he's gone to seed.
Doesn't matter if he was any good at football - that's what Shearer is there for.
hyphen said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
So we sack Lineker and want to replace him with someone cheaper but with similar skills and personal experience to call upon.
So we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Why does he need to be an ex player? His predecessor wasn'tSo we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Why does he need to be slim? His predecessor wasn't
Why does he need to appeal to women on looks?
Well liked in general? Prior to becoming a lead activist on the far end of a political spectrum he probably was- would Sky have stood for their presenter doing this? When a large part of the viewer-base is known to be centre right?
Lineker was brought in by the BBC, and trained up by them. Not anything near irreplaceable.
There is not a single other British player of working age today who ticks all those boxes for BBC UK and BBC World. Shearer is largely unknown outside the UK, Ferdinand is a bit slow, Gazza is the walking dead, Rooney is ugly, and so on...
Like it or not, Lineker is the best of the (bad) bunch.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
SpeckledJim said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
So we sack Lineker and want to replace him with someone cheaper but with similar skills and personal experience to call upon.
So we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Doesn't matter if he's an ex-player. Not many sports hosts are.So we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Doesn't matter if he's gone to seed.
Doesn't matter if he was any good at football - that's what Shearer is there for.
Me personally, I watch MOTD to see the action, I don't think, oh Lineker is on at 10.30pm for an hour or so, I must watch him presenting a load of chatting between the highlights.
Edited by towser44 on Wednesday 19th July 14:49
chow pan toon said:
y lefty mates think the reverse of this which suggests to me that the BBC is probably fairly central, given the difficulty of filtering through our own biases.
Of course they do.Thats how they want you to think.The BBC is very much a friend to the left, thats why its the left who defend it the most. Its easy to assess over time the tilt of "news" outlets , BBC included. It does not take long to suss that the Daily Mirror is a Leftward organ, the DM the opposite , etc etc. They don't have a problem admitting such either, the BBC , who is supposed to be impartial , calims to be free and impartial , when it clearly is not , don't need to have an agenda to see it, it is (or was when I used to watch some iof it) even its own past employees state as such, Rod Liddle being a prime example. towser44 said:
Would be interesting therefore to see if the viewing figures fall when say Gaby Logan presents MOTD on a Saturday night because Lineker is doing the SPOTY the following night or do they stay the same, because people are tuning in for the actual highlights of the football irrespective of who presents it rather than because it is presented by an ex-pro. Or again, would MOTD2 get more viewers if it was presented by Lineker rather than Mark Chapman?
Me personally, I watch MOTD to see the action, I don't think, oh Lineker is on at 10.30pm for an hour or so, I must watch him presenting a load of chatting between the highlights.
Agree with all this.Me personally, I watch MOTD to see the action, I don't think, oh Lineker is on at 10.30pm for an hour or so, I must watch him presenting a load of chatting between the highlights.
Edited by towser44 on Wednesday 19th July 14:49
Also, Shearer, et al, are the ex-pro pundits on the show. They dissect the details of the games, not Lineker, so I don't see why it needs an expensive ex-pro to front it.
Chapman does a perfectly good job for a fraction of the money.
Yipper said:
hyphen said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
So we sack Lineker and want to replace him with someone cheaper but with similar skills and personal experience to call upon.
So we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Why does he need to be an ex player? His predecessor wasn'tSo we're looking for an ex player who hasn't gone to seed and has a huge pot belly and looks a mess, as we need to appeal to female viewers, is intelligent, is well spoken / articulate, has played for their country in the latter stages of World Cups, has played for big clubs like Barcelona, and is well liked in general.
Now that leaves us with........ er, ......get me Lineker on the phone.
Why does he need to be slim? His predecessor wasn't
Why does he need to appeal to women on looks?
Well liked in general? Prior to becoming a lead activist on the far end of a political spectrum he probably was- would Sky have stood for their presenter doing this? When a large part of the viewer-base is known to be centre right?
Lineker was brought in by the BBC, and trained up by them. Not anything near irreplaceable.
There is not a single other British player of working age today who ticks all those boxes for BBC UK and BBC World. Shearer is largely unknown outside the UK, Ferdinand is a bit slow, Gazza is the walking dead, Rooney is ugly, and so on...
Like it or not, Lineker is the best of the (bad) bunch.
Happy to reply to any new reply you wish to make, if your new reply relates to the content of my reply.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
zygalski said:
Can't say I'm shocked about the thinly-veiled politics of envy being played out by so many devout right wing PH capitalists.
Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
+1Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
People love capitalism until someone they deem less worthy than them earns more than they do.
Never met anyone that does rate him.
Hosenbugler said:
Of course they do.Thats how they want you to think.The BBC is very much a friend to the left, thats why its the left who defend it the most. Its easy to assess over time the tilt of "news" outlets , BBC included. It does not take long to suss that the Daily Mirror is a Leftward organ, the DM the opposite , etc etc. They don't have a problem admitting such either, the BBC , who is supposed to be impartial , calims to be free and impartial , when it clearly is not , don't need to have an agenda to see it, it is (or was when I used to watch some iof it) even its own past employees state as such, Rod Liddle being a prime example.
OK thenTwigtheWonderkid said:
zygalski said:
Can't say I'm shocked about the thinly-veiled politics of envy being played out by so many devout right wing PH capitalists.
Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
+1Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
People love capitalism until someone they deem less worthy than them earns more than they do.
TEKNOPUG said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
zygalski said:
Can't say I'm shocked about the thinly-veiled politics of envy being played out by so many devout right wing PH capitalists.
Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
+1Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
People love capitalism until someone they deem less worthy than them earns more than they do.
TEKNOPUG said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
zygalski said:
Can't say I'm shocked about the thinly-veiled politics of envy being played out by so many devout right wing PH capitalists.
Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
+1Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
People love capitalism until someone they deem less worthy than them earns more than they do.
Randy Winkman said:
TEKNOPUG said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
zygalski said:
Can't say I'm shocked about the thinly-veiled politics of envy being played out by so many devout right wing PH capitalists.
Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
+1Hypocrisy...? Surely not!
People love capitalism until someone they deem less worthy than them earns more than they do.
Supply & demand. If MOTD is failing, the Beeb would be under pressure to cut costs.
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