The big story of the day is the BBC top earners, which made a big splash in the media and on social media so here is my ten pence worth on the subject. I could care less… but for the gender gap.
A lot is being made that we pay for them via the Licence Fee and that the Prime Minister only earns £150,000 that was the line drawn in the sand by a politician in his demand to find the BBCs top wage earners. According to the BBC only 96 of their talent receives above the magical £150,000.
But the politician so interested in the public money being pocketed at the BBC seems to have forgotten we also pay for commercial TV via advertising and they pay much more. That is why Ant & Dec are worth £5million each and why we have to put up with ad breaks.
Top earner and a surprise to me as I was expecting it would be Graham Norton turns out to be Chris Evans with a £2million plus salary that I am not happy about but he is a name that brings an audience but maybe not for car shows.
Former football Gary Linekar is next and worth £1.7million to the BBC who could double is money with a commercial channel and Graham Norton on under a million but not including his chat show, for which the BBC pays an independent production company, which in turn pays his salary.
It turns out the highest paid female is Claudia Winkleman earning just about £500,000
The list reveals that newsreader and Antiques Roadshow presenter Fiona Bruce earns between £350,000 and £399,000 but fellow news host Huw Edwards is on £550,000 to £599,999. This seems wrong most BBC presenters may have more than one show is this taken into account in these figures as I no last year Huw Edwards was on BBC Wales a lot doing political TV and some Wales based documentaries.
I would like to see a list of politician’s payments for appearing on the BBC.
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