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BBC Presenters Salaries

(July 2017)

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AN
Andrew Founding member
It's quite a strange set of circumstances that has resulted in Claudia Winkleman being the BBC's highest paid female star, the male ones were more obvious.
TI
tightrope78
Clare Balding's salary doesn't make sense. She is perhaps the most high profile female BBC presenter and even though there is no racing on BBC anymore she works consistently across television and radio, covering entertainment and sport.
DV
DVB Cornwall
The BBC have missed a trick with this announcement, they should have quantified the number of contracts each individual is employed for

Vine for example has three clear strands - R2, Elections and Eggheads
Mayo - R2 and 5L Wittertainment

The casual observer not being made aware of these multiple roles.
RK
Rkolsen
Clare Balding's salary doesn't make sense. She is perhaps the most high profile female BBC presenter and even though there is no racing on BBC anymore she works consistently across television and radio, covering entertainment and sport.



I'm not in the U.K. but I'm amazed at the scope of her coverage.

She's always willing to lend a hand.
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DE
derek500
The BBC have missed a trick with this announcement, they should have quantified the number of contracts each individual is employed for

Vine for example has three clear strands - R2, Elections and Eggheads
Mayo - R2 and 5L Wittertainment

The casual observer not being made aware of these multiple roles.


Would Eggheads be included? Isn't it made by an indie? Bit like Dimbleby not being on the list, who earns a reported £15K a show for Question Time. He'd be right up there.
JK
JKDerry
Imagine the uproar if Ant and Dec were still at the BBC. Currently on ITV they have raked in close to £30 million over the course of 2/3 years. And for what? Seven weeks of their Saturday Night Takeaway, 8 weeks at most hosting Britain's Got Talent, and three weeks "work" as host of I'm A Celebrity. £30 million for that!.

ITV salaries of course are not care about, especially by the Daily Mail. Even though ITV is a public service broadcaster too, just not funded by a licence fee. ITV are willing to pay multi-millions to the likes of Ant and Dec, Simon Cowell etc, and then cut as much from the budgets of local news as they can. Never hear any outrage at this from the Daily Mail or the right wing BBC bashers.

Yes, the BBC salaries are huge, but compare them to their competitors, they are a pittance. We need to step back and see, that these salaries are only a drop in the ocean, compared to the overall £5 Billion a year budget the BBC has.
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GO
gottago
Imagine the uproar if Ant and Dec were still at the BBC. Currently on ITV they have raked in close to £30 million over the course of 2/3 years. And for what? Seven weeks of their Saturday Night Takeaway, 8 weeks at most hosting Britain's Got Talent, and three weeks "work" as host of I'm A Celebrity. £30 million for that!.

Not sure by what you mean by "work". I'm a Celeb would probably be the toughest gig of the three.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Don't read the Daily Mail today then, they've got about 20 different stories on the go.

Most ridiculous is this one
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4711902/BBC-drafts-Clive-Myrie-present-News-Six.html
They obviously haven't noticed that Clive has been on all week and Huw has been on holiday for about 3 weeks, so nobody was "drafted in".

Ant and Dec - 30m over 3 years, that's about 5m a year. The BBC don't really have a big entertainment star at the moment, the closest is Graham Norton and of course what he earns is not included, so we don't know how big the BBC to commercial gap would be. Not relevant though as ITV are a commercial company and can use their money however they like.

Yesterday's news is a very minor discomfort compared to what positives they receive being the national broadcaster with no adverts, no commercial pressures etc.
BA
bilky asko
The BBC have missed a trick with this announcement, they should have quantified the number of contracts each individual is employed for

Vine for example has three clear strands - R2, Elections and Eggheads
Mayo - R2 and 5L Wittertainment

The casual observer not being made aware of these multiple roles.


Would Eggheads be included? Isn't it made by an indie? Bit like Dimbleby not being on the list, who earns a reported £15K a show for Question Time. He'd be right up there.


It was claimed Eggheads was included on his Radio 2 show yesterday.
JK
JKDerry
Gottago - I was thinking the "work" they do compared to any other job, which is the theme going around now today. Three weeks in the jungle, looked after and living in the lap pf luxury whilst hosting a few trials and live shows, not too bad, compared to an overworked nurse trying to earn a living on a 50 hour week in many cases.
CA
Cando
Clare Balding's salary doesn't make sense. She is perhaps the most high profile female BBC presenter and even though there is no racing on BBC anymore she works consistently across television and radio, covering entertainment and sport.


I have a feeling she is probably paid through the old service company route as she certainly qualifies as freelance (under the new BBC definition)through her C4/BT work.
Last edited by Cando on 20 July 2017 9:31am
AA
Aaron_2015
Imagine the uproar if Ant and Dec were still at the BBC. Currently on ITV they have raked in close to £30 million over the course of 2/3 years. And for what? Seven weeks of their Saturday Night Takeaway, 8 weeks at most hosting Britain's Got Talent, and three weeks "work" as host of I'm A Celebrity. £30 million for that!.

ITV salaries of course are not care about, especially by the Daily Mail. Even though ITV is a public service broadcaster too, just not funded by a licence fee. ITV are willing to pay multi-millions to the likes of Ant and Dec, Simon Cowell etc, and then cut as much from the budgets of local news as they can. Never hear any outrage at this from the Daily Mail or the right wing BBC bashers.

Yes, the BBC salaries are huge, but compare them to their competitors, they are a pittance. We need to step back and see, that these salaries are only a drop in the ocean, compared to the overall £5 Billion a year budget the BBC has.


What ITV pay their staff is entirely ITV's business - it's their profits they are spending at the end of the day.

Not entirely sure your point around regional news stands up at all to be honest. ITV offers far more hours of regional news content than they actually have to, and all of the regions have had refreshed studios in the last few years.

Cutting salaries would still make a huge saving, despite what you might claim.

Jeremy Corbyn would impose a limit of £400,000 on BBC salaries if he ever gets into power. Not sure all of the lefties (including Gary Linekar) would be tweeting support for Labour if they knew that!

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