BBC to Reveal Stars Earnings

[The Mad Monk]

The BBC annual report to be published at 11.00 a.m. on Wednesday July 19th will reveal the earnings of TV stars who are paid £150,000 or more.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40633...

Personally I can't wait. I have long suspected many performers are grossly overpaid. Now we will see.

[The Mad Monk]

48k said:

Mojooo said:

Much as I like Huw Edwards - 550k for doing the news? Fark.

No. 550k for:
- being the main presenter of the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One, considered the corporation's flagship news broadcast and the most watched news programme in Britain.
- presenting the BBC News at Five O'Clock on the 24-hour BBC News channel
- presenting programmes such as the Festival of Remembrance, Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament, General Election special and the referendum special
- contributing to Breakfast News, One O'Clock News, Newsnight and Panorama
- presenting documentaries on classical music, religion and Welsh history, including presenting in Welsh since he is a native Welsh speaker,

He is a senior bi-lingual news journalist at the BBC and a trusted anchor for many of the flagship programmes and special events coverage. He's not just some vacuous braindead chap reading an autocue a couple of times a day.

Mojooo said:

You could probably find 2000 decent people willing to do it for 150k let alone 300k.

You won't find 2000 people the BBC would trust to do all of the above.

Bi-lingual? You avin a larf? His other language is Welsh! What use is that?

[The Mad Monk]

wsurfa said:

I love the fact Jiffy (Jonathan Davies) is paid more than a number of the players he occasionally mumbles something incoherent about .

Avg salaries in the english rugby premiership will be c £70-80k/year, even the avg salary for a Welsh dual contract international is probably c £150k. There are only 16 dual contract players in the Welsh national squad.....amazing

Hardly.

The salary cap for 2016-17 is/was £6.5 million. Divide that by a squad of 35? Two excluded players makes for an average of £190,000 odd.

Disagree?

[The Mad Monk]

48k said:

Mojooo said:

Much as I like Huw Edwards - 550k for doing the news? Fark.

No. 550k for:
- being the main presenter of the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One, considered the corporation's flagship news broadcast and the most watched news programme in Britain.
- presenting the BBC News at Five O'Clock on the 24-hour BBC News channel
- presenting programmes such as the Festival of Remembrance, Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament, General Election special and the referendum special
- contributing to Breakfast News, One O'Clock News, Newsnight and Panorama
- presenting documentaries on classical music, religion and Welsh history, including presenting in Welsh since he is a native Welsh speaker,

He is a senior bi-lingual news journalist at the BBC and a trusted anchor for many of the flagship programmes and special events coverage. He's not just some vacuous braindead chap reading an autocue a couple of times a day.

Mojooo said:

You could probably find 2000 decent people willing to do it for 150k let alone 300k.

You won't find 2000 people the BBC would trust to do all of the above.

Huw Edwards presented a so-called documentary on Wales and the Welsh a little back.

I have never seen anything quite as biased and one sided as that programme.

No mention that the Welsh had a (obviously completely unjustified) reputation in the Middle Ages for crossing the border and stealing English cattle.

Nor any mention that The Welsh gave an expression "To Welsh" meaning to renege on an agreement to the English language. This allegation is, of course, false and completely erroneous.

[The Mad Monk]

AJL308 said:

The Mad Monk said:

wsurfa said:

I love the fact Jiffy (Jonathan Davies) is paid more than a number of the players he occasionally mumbles something incoherent about .

Avg salaries in the english rugby premiership will be c £70-80k/year, even the avg salary for a Welsh dual contract international is probably c £150k. There are only 16 dual contract players in the Welsh national squad.....amazing

Hardly.

The salary cap for 2016-17 is/was £6.5 million. Divide that by a squad of 35? Two excluded players makes for an average of £190,000 odd.

Disagree?

Surely that is just what they can pay which may not necessarily reflect what they actually pay?

How many Premiership rugby clubs don't pay at, or very close, to the limit?

[The Mad Monk]

Naga Munchetty gets £150,000 to £199999 for presenting on BBC 1 Breakfast.

Charlie Stayt who sits next to her on the sofa doesn't appear in the rankings.

No wonder she looked so cheerful yesterday and he looked so grumpy!

Publication of these figures must have upset a few people when they found out how much their colleagues are getting paid!

[The Mad Monk]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

This thread has provided some great insights into people's jobs.

Acting- not exactly hard word
Newsreading - throw on a bit of slap and read an autocue

I wish I'd known years ago how p1ss easy these jobs were.

The difficult bit is getting a job in that business.

[The Mad Monk]

Dazed and Confused said:

get away from situations where someone like Jo Brand seems to be the only woman on most things.

Or Clare Balding.

Sigh.

[The Mad Monk]

Durzel said:

BaronVonVaderham said:

Yes yes, but according to the Beeb luvvies/employees on this thread it's really really hard and stressful work that none of us could ever do and so they 'totes' deserve every penny... For reading the autocue full of words that others researched, edited and produced.

If fact I think we should start a gofundme page to support them in their exceptionally stressful professional lives fraught with life and death decisions.

Won't somebody think of the presenters!

What's so hard to grasp about people being paid market rates?

Is it fair that nurses and doctors are on less than them? No, but what choice have those people got? They are paid what their respective employers believe they are worth/can get away with, same with this.

If you look at these salaries in isolation, completely contextless, then yes they are extravagant. You could make an argument (not a particularly compelling one) that no one deserves much less needs three figure salaries to live. No one needs luxury cars, etc. How reductive do you want to get?

Each of the people on this list have agents who negotiated these salaries for them. Some of them probably could've got more, a few women certainly could've got more if they knew of the salaries of others - which isn't usually information any employee has.

The suggestion seems to be that the Beeb wants to pay these people this much, rather than feeling that they need to in order to keep them, and would pay them more if it could. Does that sound particularly realistic or familiar from a corporate fiscal strategy perspective?

Edited by Durzel on Tuesday 25th July 11:13

Why don't the BBC refuse to deal with agents?

[The Mad Monk]

outnumbered said:

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.

How do they do programmes like Classic FM?

Does the presenter actually sit in the studio for 3 hours talking a bit, play some music, talk a bit, here's the news, play some music and so on for three hours?

Or

Do they record a load of links, a load of titles of bits of music, and then go home and the programme is put out by the technicians?