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Got bugger all live sport, but can afford to pay Lineker £1.75 million a year and Shearer over £420k
A bloody scandal.
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Shearer, Lineker and Wright's salaries are absolutely disgraceful.
NOBODY watches football for the pundits - in fact if I'm watching on catch up I (I'm guessing like everyone else) fast forward through them.
You would lose ZERO viewers if you got rid of them. And if you replaced them with entertaining people (couple of comedians like the old fantasy football league) you might even gain a few.
I am completely unsure about relative values And related wage/salaries
Where else could these people earn that kind of money Is there a competitive market place for their skill?
How are these salary levels set
Is it by the agents or is it by the budget holders who allocate an amount of money based on budget and not on any kind of added value formula
The formats for these programs are unchanged over the years and I believe that 1 no audience numbers would be lost if you got rid of expensive pundits
And 2 a fundamental rethink about how these types of programs are formatted should be undertaken to understand more about the viewers wants and needs
It's a Gov ploy to publish their salaries so the BBC lose their stars, start producing rubbish TV and then nobody will care when it becomes scaled back and becomes nothing more than a public information channel. They've made no secret of this.
In my opinion, the BBC is absolutely value for money and produces more than it's fair share of top TV programmes. Who would have thought that the countries' top entertainers get paid well?
Stars doesn't equate to good TV.
Good direction, innovation, writing, set design, journalism and research does that. And that doesn't have to cost millions.
The people who front these programs are so much less important that people give them credit for, and in most case are completely expendable and interchangeable.
The BBC shouldn't be about big stars and personalities. It should be different from commercial TV. It should take risks, make programmes and cater for people that other broadcasters don't.
That remind me I've not seen my BBC wage slip this month
The BBC does exactly what your last sentence says. And unfortunately it's not true that presenters are interchangeable. People like seeing familiar faces, that's why familiar faces cost money. If it was true that cheap options would get the same results every channel would be doing that.
I bet jimmy hill never got paid the equivalent back in the day.
How much is that gob shite Christopher Evans on ?
Yes, all are paid too much but the two that really stand out are Shearer and Wright. The only mitigating point, although small for Wright is his length of service. But for part time Shearer there is no mitigation.
Match of the Day must be a very expensive programme and whilst it’s a flagship programme for the BBC it’s a brand that has been in decline for a very long time. If Lineker and Shearer decided to move on of their own violation the programme would have to make changes. I wouldn’t wait!
On balance I remain a fan of the BBC.
They definitely have been for years, they try and put a negative spin on everything the bbc do and so many people get taken in by it.
CCMB is actually a good indicator of the rest of the uk because you see so many on here taken in by obvious "propaganda" like this, the power the media has influencing a lot of the population has never been more obvious.
Touch patronising there, Croesy.
Surely the BBC is part of that media to which you refer.