A Lot of Dough
The papers have reported today that Bake Off stars Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood have been given a £100,000 pay rise, taking their salary to £600,000. Yes I would agree it is a very good programme, but that is considerably more than the guy gets for running the country. It also seems a little odd that it has come in a week where the BBC have said they are looking at all options, including cutting the news channel, to make ends meet. I would be interested to know what others think?
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Just because one person can do a job really well, does not mean they are the only one. They could have ten more in their place, more hungry to succeed and less complacent, for the same expense and some of them might even do better.
It all displays exceedingly poor management. Rather than plan for succession, they have succumbed to paying out disproportionate salaries instead.
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The BBC still have to operate in a commercial environment, the 2 presenters are part of the attraction to the record audiences that the programme commands. The pay reflects this popularity, if the 'going rate' isn't paid the presenters move on-the programme
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No different to the ridiculous amounts of money paid to those prima donna footballers.
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I think the licence fee is worth the 40p a day for the news channel on it's own. I hate the one on Sky that keeps going for commercial breaks. However, if they are considering scrapping it whilst continuing paying higher and higher fees to presenters, perhaps they need to look at their priorities. One of the things the BBC is still considered above others for, world wide, is the quality of it's news service.
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That is why there are so many programmes about, ie, X Factor, Britain's got Talent, etc. The only wages needing to be paid out are the over-priced judges. I've noticed there are quite a few English actors in American shows; there aren't the jobs here because
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Well I am not even sure of the quality these days of the BBC's news programms.
The Beeb was always supposed to be totally neautral but today I see little evidence of that. Its tries far too hard to shake offf its early "establishment" image and as a result now goes the other way. It has turned "Dumbing Down" into an art form!
Master chef, the pottery proramme and now even the antiques
programmes follow the same format. Boring!
TF
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The tv licence is an outdated concept and its time the BBC stood on its own two feet full stop.
peter.
Certainly hope that they don't go down that road, just look at the railways, we pay more for them now than we ever did before.
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It's the production companies that are making the money, not sure how accurate the reporting is on the wages of the presenters? I've enjoyed some of the bake-off programmes and also Mary Berry's cookery programmes. At 80 she has worked hard over the years
to promote cookery and baking.
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I admire Mary Berry very much and have done for years. She must be contributing to the public funds by paying a lot of tax if that really is the sort of money she commands for the programme! My daughter was a tennant on the estate where the Bake Off was
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Given the money the BBC have made from selling the concept overseas I would have though the two presenters are worth every penny of the money they get paid. It should be remembered that the individules concerned probably don't get anywhere near the figures mention because of agent fees and tax.
David
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£600,00 to burn the cakes, the BBC should get their act together and sign up for Sports coverage, any sports coverage, the BBC were the leaders and now we have to view crap programmes like Bake off, Cash in the Attic and other useless programmes that that pillock Timmy Wanalot, he who has no presentation skills whatsoever and gets paid a fortune Grrrrrrr
Admiral
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Given the money the BBC have made from selling the concept overseas I would have though the two presenters are worth every penny of the money they get paid. It should be remembered that the individules concerned probably don't get anywhere near the figures mention because of agent fees and tax.
David
Whilst I do not wish to associate myself with those who criticise the BBC for paying what supply and demand requires, I have to play Devil's advocate to this argument.
The fact that these presenters have to pay tax and agent's fees on these salaries is totally beside the point.
Tax is something we all pay on our income; evaluations have to be made gross of any tax or the comparison is worthless. Nor does it matter that some pay proportionately more tax because they move into higher or additional rates. It would be quite wrong to allow that to distort the judgement being made.
The same is true of agent's fee because all presenters will pay them; so comparing presenter's income must be made gross of their agents' fees.
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All I am pointing out is that the headline figures might not be as impressive as they first seem once you take the things I mentioned into account. The BBC clearly has a very successful product with the Bakeoff series and want to protect their investment by paying the people who create that success enough money to keep them at the BBC.
David
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It's the production companies that are making the money, not sure how accurate the reporting is on the wages of the presenters? I've enjoyed some of the bake-off programmes and also Mary Berry's cookery programmes. At 80 she has worked hard over the years
to promote cookery and baking.Write your comments here...Dont forget, many of the production companies are owned by presenters!
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