BBC NEWS CUTS

This may be a naïve comment, and I don't want to come across as hyperbolic, but Lineker's remarks almost come across as a parting shot at the BBC. It really wouldn't surprise me if he's set to part ways with the BBC soon - he has an itv gameshow coming up. Perhaps he'll be fronting Euro 2020 for itv also.

Of course it’s upsetting when it happens to your organisation but journalists would struggle to survive without leakers.

Indeed the Lineker/Chapman differential has been a very noticable one. On football alone, Chapman does just as much work if not more than Lineker both on a normal week (if on radio rather than TV) but Chapman does a load of other sports too and is 5 Live’s premier sports presenter. Yet he’s paid a fraction of what Lineker gets.

And as others have said people watch MOTD for the football. It’s hardly as if the world falls in when Gabby Logan stands in for Gary

Can someone explain to me why some salary details have to be officially released by the BBC and the BBC Studios salary payments do not?

I understand BBC Studios is the commercial arm of the BBC, and so thinking would be the money used to pay stars through BBC Studios would be commercial money raised from that arm of the BBC, and thus not licence fee payer money, and so BBC Studios does not have to release that information, however I was told this was not correct.

If anyone can explain this to me I would be very grateful, as it seems a confused mess to me.

I think that BBC Studios is a independent production company so as such, like the others, any shows produced by them and the stars employed by them are exempt from the salary release, because they aren't employed directly by the BBC.

Take for example The Graham Norton Show on BBC One. The show is produced for the BBC by So Productions, which is owned by ITV Studios (used to be owned by Graham) - so does this mean Graham's fee for the show is paid how? This is what confuses me, as his BBC Radio 2 show and I think Eurovision fee is released to the annual statement in July by the BBC, not his talk show salary.

Thanks.

The BBC pay So Television a sum for "The Graham Norton Show" which covers *all* associated costs of So Television producing the show, including salaries. Therefore Graham's earnings from that show are bundled in and hidden in whatever figure is paid for the whole show, unlike Radio 2 and Eurovision where the BBC hire him directly.

Gaby is surely being lined up to Replace Gary if he leaves.
But I am pretty sure he is already contracted for Euro 2020 on the BBC.

Eurovision is a BBC studios production, so it is not disclosed.

Axe BBC Hull and give us proper news from Leeds

Trouble is replace Gary with Gabby and given recent circumstances the BBC would have no choice but to pay her the same.


On the whole though the BBC seem to have far too many football presenters - used to be just 2 or 3 but now you have 4 people hosting over a standard weekend with no live games when really it could be 2.

Thanks for this, very interesting - so it is indeed licence fee money, but it is paid to So Television from BBC Studios.