Quote Originally Posted by Gofer Blue View Post
The average BBC salary is £36K p.a. (The average UK salary is £31K). Let's be generous and pay Lineker double the average BBC salary so £72K. Would you agree that £72K is a pretty good salary for what he actually does? I'm sure someone will come along and tell me that he could earn umpteen more times than that on SKY, then so be it, let him go to SKY; then I wouldn't be paying his salary from my TV licence fee any more and the money saved could be going towards what the BBC does best: news, documentaries, dramas etc.
if you pay a presenter of a tv show watched by millions £72k, then anyone who was any good would leave almost straight away for more money elsewhere.
Even youtubers that are watched as much as that make more than that probably.

He's very good at his job.
I really don't want to watch MOTD with a £72k main presenter.