The B B C Are Joking?

[choux]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11976973/Top-BBC-presenters-including-Huw-Edwards-Sophie-Raworth-redundancy-letters.html
Why not lose The highly paid MOTD presenter?!

[Gromit]

Because it is restructuring of the News and Lineker works for the Sports part.

[choux]

If the BBC are that cash-strapped why not look at its highest expenditure overall?

[davebro]

it isn't "cash strapped" it's profligate

[lady-janine]

Agree with that davebro. They waste money like it is being given to them with no stipulations and no boundaries.

[davebro]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62133808

Any organisation that pays this kind of money to "stars" for whom it is often a part-time job has more money than it properly knows what to do with. (and that's not to mention the backroom boys & girls)

[lady-janine]

I find most of those presenters very irritating and so never listen to or watch any programme they are associated with. I can't be the only one. Am I?

[patsyann]

So money wasted by the BBC on celebrities and types like Lineker .And still happy to take money from the elderly each year . OAP’S should be given a free pass .Paid enough over many years . The

[choux]

The BBC have many tv news reports each day over BBC1, 2 & News 24. They have to arrange stand-by presenters for any occasion. The newsreaders spend a lot of time in researching before they appear on camera. The "man hours" mount up.

[Hymie]

Quite why TV presenters are paid exorbitant salaries is beyond me – if the BBC held open interviews for their early morning news presenters working 20 hours a week at £40k there would be a queue of applicants stretching from Salford to Manchester City centre. And I’d be willing to bet that many could do a better job than the incumbents.

In comparison, if my employer offered a £50k salary for someone to do my job fulltime, they’d be lucky to get half a dozen applicants and even luckier if one was capable of doing the job.

[ichkeria]

Lol I doubt that very much hymie whatever you think of the salaries.
The “hang Gary Lineker” mob are up very early today :-)

[fitdarren]

Huw Edwards would be a terrible loss. He is professional to the bone and I would watch anything he presents. BBC have lost the plot!

[Zacs-Master]

Hymie ‘Quite why TV presenters are paid exorbitant salaries is beyond me’

It’s market forces. Companies such as Sky can afford to pay high salaries to get the best people. The BBC has to therefore pay similarly to get, and keep, the quality of presenters.

[Peter Pedant]

Mornin' Chowks - - - OK bonjewer shoo !
You fire the ones not doing the work - in this case the one draggin' in da lu-lu. If people wanna watch jeremy Clarkson, he stays, and is 'worf da moolah'.

odd view of "productivity" - but for example, if I see a thing with Keeley Hawks in it, I will watch it. Thingey Seagal, a no-no even if he is playing Ophelia - good deaf scene as a SEAL ( geddit?)

[Peter Pedant]

Frank Bough ( cocaine)
and Huw thingey again, on New at Ten (*)
old DImbleby - had huge followings

(*) I mean people watched him play tennis, innit?

[Gromit]

If you do not like Lineker, don’t watch the programmes he is on.
As his recent suspension highlighted, the public like him, and his colleagues admire his professionalism.
Wishing someone to be sacked because they are on a better wage than you is just envy.

[choux]

There is more to the job than reading an autocue. As I said earlier, the presenters have to be au fait with the items they are covering, especially when they have dialogues with "experts/representatives" in the studio or via transmission from other sites.

Good morning, Peter, you omitted Lady Isobel Barnett, doctor and JP - convicted shoplifter was her line and Aunty paid her, innit!

[Peter Pedant]

boiled herself in a barf, I recall
thanks for reminding me

[choux]

Gromit, I doubt everyone likes him and yes, his ridiculous salary tops my pensions :D

[Peter Pedant]

o God Steven Seagal, sozza

[Peter Pedant]

Huw no one
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