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BBC Presenters Salaries

(July 2017)

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SW
Steve Williams
Andrew posted:
The likes of Gary Lineker are the worst value considering he appears once a week during the football season, but of course he is in demand, as is Shearer. I'm sure Sky offer them both high amounts every year.


Lineker is on television loads, he's certainly on more than the likes of Norton or Winkleman - not just forty weeks a year (and on many occasions, more than once a week) but also every other year he's on television every day several times a day for a month.

Whitnall posted:
The BBC seem to pay good money to all their employees.


Oh, do they? Would love to know the reasoning behind that statement.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
As mentioned earlier, the lack of foreign correspondents is surprising. I would have thought the likes of Lyse Doucet, Fergal Keane, Frank Gardner, Carrie Gracie and James Landale would easily have featured in the 150k bracket but it appears the dangerous life of a foreign corr is not necessarily a well remunerated one...(relative to their colleagues of course!)

Half their salary presumably comes from BBC World and hence not licence fee funded.

Not sure why Dimbleby isn't on the list, as surely he is BBC staff?
WH
Whataday Founding member
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
As mentioned earlier, the lack of foreign correspondents is surprising. I would have thought the likes of Lyse Doucet, Fergal Keane, Frank Gardner, Carrie Gracie and James Landale would easily have featured in the 150k bracket but it appears the dangerous life of a foreign corr is not necessarily a well remunerated one...(relative to their colleagues of course!)


Just pondering, do BBC News correspondents get a different fee for reports filed for BBC World and other commercial channels?
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Whataday Founding member
Andrew posted:
Not sure why Dimbleby isn't on the list, as surely he is BBC staff?


His main income will be from Question Time which is an independent production.
MI
m_in_m
Whataday posted:
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
As mentioned earlier, the lack of foreign correspondents is surprising. I would have thought the likes of Lyse Doucet, Fergal Keane, Frank Gardner, Carrie Gracie and James Landale would easily have featured in the 150k bracket but it appears the dangerous life of a foreign corr is not necessarily a well remunerated one...(relative to their colleagues of course!)


Just pondering, do BBC News correspondents get a different fee for reports filed for BBC World and other commercial channels?

This is what makes the list somewhat useless. We don't know what they are being paid for so can't compare.

Take the Today presenters - often they have other work they do so that will impact the overall figure. Also we don't know how many programmes they presented during that period.
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TROGGLES
m_in_m posted:
Whataday posted:
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
As mentioned earlier, the lack of foreign correspondents is surprising. I would have thought the likes of Lyse Doucet, Fergal Keane, Frank Gardner, Carrie Gracie and James Landale would easily have featured in the 150k bracket but it appears the dangerous life of a foreign corr is not necessarily a well remunerated one...(relative to their colleagues of course!)


Just pondering, do BBC News correspondents get a different fee for reports filed for BBC World and other commercial channels?

This is what makes the list somewhat useless. We don't know what they are being paid for so can't compare.

Take the Today presenters - often they have other work they do so that will impact the overall figure. Also we don't know how many programmes they presented during that period.

Lots of financial smoke and mirrors with the figures which will be even more foggy next year when the entertainment talent moves to BBC studios. The information will be classed as commercial and therefore wont be revealed. I imagine this will be a one off exercise - its hardly news and the only people to capitalise on it are Murdoch & Dacre.

P.S. The recently warned tag is still there.
IS
Inspector Sands
Andrew posted:

The likes of Gary Lineker are the worst value considering he appears once a week during the football season, but of course he is in demand,

You realise that Euro 2016 was last year? I imagine that his pay is more on even years than odd ones.

Both him and Chris Evans will probably have lower pay in next year's, Lineker because there's no big football tournament and Evans because he no longer has a TV gig

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as is Shearer. I'm sure Sky offer them both high amounts every year.

BT Sport, in fact didn't Lineker take a pay cut from the BBC to work there?
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Newsroom
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
As mentioned earlier, the lack of foreign correspondents is surprising. I would have thought the likes of Lyse Doucet, Fergal Keane, Frank Gardner, Carrie Gracie and James Landale would easily have featured in the 150k bracket but it appears the dangerous life of a foreign corr is not necessarily a well remunerated one...(relative to their colleagues of course!)


Carrie claimed she was on 90k some years ago live on air. Lyse Doucet has been employed by BBC Worldwide for decades.... We don't know her deal, but we can be sure she is not on anything less than the benchmark here. I am surprised at Sophie Raworth however. She's been a BBC presenter also for almost 20 years, her salary must be topped up elsewhere. She works for News and Studios. Doesn't make sense.
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AlexS
Newsroom posted:
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
As mentioned earlier, the lack of foreign correspondents is surprising. I would have thought the likes of Lyse Doucet, Fergal Keane, Frank Gardner, Carrie Gracie and James Landale would easily have featured in the 150k bracket but it appears the dangerous life of a foreign corr is not necessarily a well remunerated one...(relative to their colleagues of course!)


Carrie claimed she was on 90k some years ago live on air. Lyse Doucet has been employed by BBC Worldwide for decades.... We don't know her deal, but we can be sure she is not on anything less than the benchmark here. I am surprised at Sophie Raworth however. She's been a BBC presenter also for almost 20 years, her salary must be topped up elsewhere. She works for News and Studios. Doesn't make sense.

Carrie was on leave for the first few months of the year covered, which may have significantly reduced her pay for the year.
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Worzel
Could Sky News not find a more recent picture of Steve Wright? Laughing

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derek500
TROGGLES posted:
m_in_m posted:
Whataday posted:

Just pondering, do BBC News correspondents get a different fee for reports filed for BBC World and other commercial channels?

This is what makes the list somewhat useless. We don't know what they are being paid for so can't compare.

Take the Today presenters - often they have other work they do so that will impact the overall figure. Also we don't know how many programmes they presented during that period.

Lots of financial smoke and mirrors with the figures which will be even more foggy next year when the entertainment talent moves to BBC studios. The information will be classed as commercial and therefore wont be revealed. I imagine this will be a one off exercise - its hardly news and the only people to capitalise on it are Murdoch & Dacre.

P.S. The recently warned tag is still there.


Which of Murdoch or Dacre run the Daily Mirror where the story takes most of the front page?
VM
VMPhil
Worzel posted:
Could Sky News not find a more recent picture of Steve Wright?

To be fair, the BBC themselves still use this photo of him from about 20 years ago.

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