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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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?)
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.
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!