A Lot of Dough

Its ok, its only the public's money. Time for the BBC to given a kick in the butt by halving the price of the TV license. That would focus their minds and look hard at their dreadful waste of public money.

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. 

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 fails. 'Twas ever thus'.

No different to the ridiculous amounts of money paid to those prima donna footballers.

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.

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 no other shows are being made

The tv licence is an outdated concept and its time the BBC stood on its own two feet full stop.

peter.

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

The tv licence is an outdated concept and its time the BBC stood on its own two feet full stop.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.

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.