BBC to Reveal Stars Earnings

[pquinn]

cqueen said:

I don't understand the Gary Linekar salary. He WAS a footballer, he aint anymore - so why pay him a footballers salary? Esp when any basic presenter could do the same.

Does the public even care who hosts MOTD? As a football fan, I sure don't..

But if they don't pay him that he'd go work for someone else,and have to find someone who could replace him.

Except the first bit just isn't going to happen and the second bit is trivial. His salary is a joke.

[Skyedriver]

Massive salaries and I see Zoe Ball just been given £1M pay rise.
Yet pensioners over 75 now have to pay for a licence, the NHS would benefit from more funding, we as a nation are going to be paying more to cover the cost of CV19, the furlough, the people who are losing jobs, businesses going out of business. The whole thing just stinks. We need to bring an end to this celebrity thing and to the BBC licence. How do we do it?

[Gary29]

Skyedriver said:

We need to bring an end to this celebrity thing and to the BBC licence.

How do we do it?

Stop paying your TV licence.

[abzmike]

Scotty2 said:

I don't think Zoe Ball is worth anything like that either!

Quite - that number next to her name just boggles the mind

[Gary29]

abzmike said:

Quite - that number next to her name just boggles the mind

Is it one of those where she has her own production company and she produces the show out of her own pocket? It does seem a high number.

Isn't Jeremy Vine usually in the top 10? No mention of him in the list.

[rdjohn]

Fundoreen said:

Was going to mention the feltz being up there as usual but Ball must have some compromising info to be paid that much.
Curious what value they bring. Maybe increased demand for tv licenses?

Zoe Ball must have negotiate a blinder of a deal - £1 increase in salary for every listener lost.

Recently a few different people have been sitting in for both Ball and Feltz. While the format remains the same, their presentation skills are always better for being less than hyper hysterical

[cqueen]

pquinn said:

But if they don't pay him that he'd go work for someone else,and have to find someone who could replace him.

Let him jog on. My local radio sport presenter could do just as good a job (if not better) and he's probably earning peanuts.

[Wacky Racer]

DoctorX said:

Steve Wright

If he mentions that Serious jockin' (No G) again.......

[darren f]

IMO every single one of those salaries are outrageous. Particularly Shearer- £400k for about 10 minutes per week ‘punditry’ on football highlights! Really? Ridiculous money for someone who failed at his one and only attempt at managing in the sport he is supposedly an expert on.

[LuS1fer]

Wacky Racer said:

DoctorX said:

Steve Wright

If he mentions that Serious jockin' (No G) again.......

I get the impression and have, for some time now, that he's fed up with it as well but the cretinous public like it.
Hasn't it spun off a Serious rockin' on someone else's show?

I am bl**dy staggered by Zoe Ball's salary. What a totally talentless woman she is. I wouldn't pay her £100k.
At least Feltz has intelligence.
The annoying part is that advertisers pay the salaries of other DJs yet the public have to pay this ridiculously inflated salary bill.

[anonymous-user]

Lots of people bitter about other people’s earnings, it all sounds a bit jealous and socialist to me.

If it’s so easy and those people earning those salaries are so rubbish, why don’t you guys all become top earning TV and radio talent?

[Not-The-Messiah]

pquinn said:

98elise said:

Not-The-Messiah said:

Every time these pop up it just annoys me, I know it's just the market rate and so on, not mentioning that the BBC will have huge influence on such market.

But are these people really worthy of being the highest paid public sector workers? More that our leaders, brain surgeons, doctors and so on. If anything after Covid most have shown themselves up to be brain dead morons.

How is it the market rate for most of those jobs? I would suggest they are very much at the top end of the scale.

The BBC has no need to chase ratings why do we need to pay radio DJ's massive salaries?

I must be missing the massive commercial competition for radio and news presenters, and how difficult it is to find people to fill the jobs.

The 'market' doesn't exist.

I fully agree but they defend the pay by saying they need to retain the so called talent. We all know it's a load of st there will be hundreds of people who could do the job better out there.

[Silverage]

What does Alan Shearer do for the BBC apart from being a pundit on MOTD? Surely that alone can’t justify nigh-on £400k per year?

[anonymous-user]

Not-The-Messiah said:

I fully agree but they defend the pay by saying they need to retain the so called talent. We all know it's a load of st there will be hundreds of people who could do the job better out there.

So why do you think the BBC doesn’t want to pay less and get people that “could do the job better”

Seems odd that they’re paying more than they need to for worse presenters?

[outnumbered]

Surprises me how many radio presenters are on that list. Steve Wright FFS! I'd say there's hardly any competition for "talent" in that field, because the commercial stations are now nearly all just a bloke with a computer and a playlist. BBC seems to be stuck in the past, paying so much money to these has-beens.

[Europa1]

I read a few weeks ago that Huw Edwards had taken a £200k pa pay cut 'out of solidarity'. I don't know how the poor dear makes ends meet on a mere £400k plus....

[Countdown]

El stovey said:

Lots of people bitter about other people’s earnings, it all sounds a bit jealous and socialist to me.

If it’s so easy and those people earning those salaries are so rubbish, why don’t you guys all become top earning TV and radio talent?

Yeah....so many jealous lefties on this thread.

[Mojooo]

Isn't Graham Norton actually the highest paid - its just that some of the money goes to his company?

[Algarve]

Silverage said:

What does Alan Shearer do for the BBC apart from being a pundit on MOTD? Surely that alone can’t justify nigh-on £400k per year?

He's a multi millionaire many times over from his playing career, I'm surprised he's even willing to give up a good chunk of his weekend now for < £5k a week. I wouldn't if I was in his shoes.

If you want someone of his calibre to do the job, they're not going to do it for £500 a week are they?

[98elise]

Not-The-Messiah said:

pquinn said:

98elise said:

Not-The-Messiah said:

Every time these pop up it just annoys me, I know it's just the market rate and so on, not mentioning that the BBC will have huge influence on such market.

But are these people really worthy of being the highest paid public sector workers? More that our leaders, brain surgeons, doctors and so on. If anything after Covid most have shown themselves up to be brain dead morons.

How is it the market rate for most of those jobs? I would suggest they are very much at the top end of the scale.

The BBC has no need to chase ratings why do we need to pay radio DJ's massive salaries?

I must be missing the massive commercial competition for radio and news presenters, and how difficult it is to find people to fill the jobs.

The 'market' doesn't exist.

I fully agree but they defend the pay by saying they need to retain the so called talent. We all know it's a load of st there will be hundreds of people who could do the job better out there.

The thing is they don't need to compete for viewers/listeners, so why does it need such high paid talent.