BBC to cut wages and publish (some) star's salaries.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10468055.stm


I've thought that the BBC wastes a lot of money for a long time. There should be a pay cap for 'stars' -think Jonathon Ross' stupidly massive wages (the renown the BBC enjoys would ensure top talent still flock to it's studios) and they need to stop sending 'journalists' half way around the globe for a five-second news item about a man stubbing his toe in Papua New Guinea...
 
Whilst I do think stars get paid an excessive amount, it has to be competitive otherwise all the big names that we love to see week in week out (there aren't that many for me personally) will simply move to other stations where the pay is bigger....

I think pay stars a competitive (but no over inflated) rate and cut some of the crap from the likes of BBC three...

The BBC gets some things so so right and others... so so wrong
 
Pointless exercise IMO. The BBC should pay what it feels it needs to in order to get the person appropriate for the show they're planning. It is just part of the overall production cost. If it ends up too high, then just kill it.

I agree though that the BBC does waste a lot of money. Having said that, I'm on Question Time tonight in Ipswich, and apparently just tea and biscuits are provided. That's a cut too far - I expected canapes at least :D
 
In before "Scrap the license fee" and "Why should I have to pay the license fee when I only waatch Sky Sports and Babestation because I'm alpha"
 
But the evil empire is not cutting or freezing everyone's pay, it's not telling us what they all earn. So another smokescreen to keep the public happy while they continue to waste money.
 
simulatorman said:
But the evil empire is not cutting or freezing everyone's pay, it's not telling us what they all earn. So another smokescreen to keep the public happy while they continue to waste money.
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I hardly think it's fair to describe the worlds best broadcast company as the Evil empire. They are gutting salaries accross the board in the next year or so as it says in the article, you can't do these things over night as people have contracts which need to be fullfilled and bills they need to pay. The BBC are already loosing three high profile well paid presenters this summer so it's hardly like they are doing nothing.

Like you I would like to see the BBC go further but these things take time and your sensationalist post hardly helps.
 
I still don't understand why we have JR, surely the private sector broadcasters would fill that role if the BBC didn't. Isn't the mandate of the BBC to fill in gaps that are to expensive for the private sector to do i.e. period drama and documentaries? Talk shows are ten a penny as far as I am concerned and nothing that he BBC should be involved in.
 
The bbc trust and the public at large needs to start asking a more relevant question - what should the bbc's remit be?

Should they continue expanding local new services through the web, killing the already struggling local newspapers.
Should they have local radio stations?
What programs should they transmit - is it right to continue buying big american shows or would the money be better spent producing more local drama/comedy.

As much as I despise James Murdoch and his "chilling land grab" speech it did make me question the bbc's role of late. The bbc better start looking at it too, before the government backed by the Murdochs do.
 
edscdk said:
they should be they dont have to make any money and they get given billions in free money each year...
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They do have to make money to increase their funding, which is done by selling programming abroad and DVDs etc.
 
edscdk said:
they should be they dont have to make any money and they get given billions in free money each year...
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I don't understand your point, they are the worlds best braodcaster, regardless of there funding which hardly equates to such ridiculous name calling.
 
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