A Real Eye-Opener

[sir.prize]

The BBC is considering to request that over-75s volunteer to pay for their TV licences to 'preserve the viability of the corporation'. It is interesting to see the published salaries of current staff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/

Click to reveal each individual salary.

[Gromit]

Absolutely agree AOG.
The license fee should not pay for the World Service.

It used to be paid for by the Foreign Office until 2011, when the burden was again shifted to the lense fee payer. Absolute disgrace, and again, not something the BBC can opt out of.

If the Government do not want to pay for a World Service they should scrap it. If they do, they should fund it not make tv viewers in the UK subsidise it.

[gness]

Does anybody consider the BBC good value for money?

For the same price as two West End shows or ten or twelve cinema visits I get a year of information and entertainment....

Spring/Autumn Watch.....Only Connect.....The Proms......Stephen Fry...... Dara O'Briain......Brian Cox.....the occasional good drama....
Endless radio programmes.....

Not forgetting Mrs Brown's Boys of course.....♣

[Old_Geezer]

Surely the World Service is part of the same thing, it is the window for folk to view our country and our views. It is about presenting our country to all and is why we have a state funded corporation in the first place. It is the licence fee method of raising the readies that is a dodgy system. Those who watch TV pay whilst those who do not still get the benefits of us presenting the country's public face.

[Svejk]

Good, you wont mind subscribing to it than, gness.
Even the Guardian readers are fed up with the beeb.

[Svejk]

///it is the window for folk to view our country and our views///

Lol, OG, whose views?

[gness]

I said on an earlier thread.....I'm happy to pay......I watch the beeb....I listen to the beeb.

I would suggest that once it is an encrypted subscription service (needing a smart card) there will be people who discover that they did actually watch and listen more than they thought.

[Old_Geezer]

I think the Civil Service and government decide what our image should be. For sure the BBC are given a fair bit of freedom but nothing stopping those in power closing it all down if the whole thing becomes detrimental. And of course these folk are making these decisions on your behalf so ultimately it must be your view of how we and our views should be presented.

[Gromit]

There is a call for BBC became a subscription only service competing with SKY.

Assuming people could only buy one, then my guess is SKY would go out of business very quickly.

The BBC often get more viewers than ITV, so if I were an advertiser, I would place my ads on the beeb first - bye bye ITV.

[sir.prize]

. . . and this guy's salary

Wow!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/salmon_peter

[sir.prize]

. . . and this same guy's expenses sheet

Wow!

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/pdf/Q3_1415/peter_salmon_central_bookings_q3_2014_15.pdf#zoom=100

[Zacs-Master]

Sir,prize, Archie Norman's ITV pay package:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/14/itv-adam-crozier-pay-package-bonus-investors

Just to give some perspective you understand.

[Orderlimit]

Insane, but ITV is a public limited company isn't it?

[Gromit]

I am not saying that these BBC executives are worth it. But the salaries are industry standards.

// The BSkyB chief executive, Jeremy Darroch, received more than £7m in total remuneration and share award payout last year, including a maximum bonus of almost £1.9m.

Darroch's total remuneration, which includes salary, bonus, pension and benefits for the year to the end of June rose 7% year on year to £2.98m. //

[sir.prize]

Obscene isn't it, Zacs?

[Zacs-Master]

No not really. You can't live in a capitalist society and complain about large salaries.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// You can't live in a capitalist society and complain about large salaries. ///

And do you believe that that those who live in a communist society don't complain about large salaries, or are they not allowed to?

[Gromit]

AOG,
Did you know China added 2 million new millionaires in 2014. China now has more millionaires than anyone else other than the US.