Aye but lets not forget the dosh is still coming from millions of tv licence payers up n down the country and the bbc is a public broadcasting authority!!!! As for the idea of the 'going rate'? It covers the going rate for bbc people only located in a certain area of England!!! So much for the 'United' part of the UK acronym AGAIN!! The whole system and culture of paying out grossly overpaid salaries to a select group of people who prob make up under 1% of our population is all part n parcel of the culture and society that has been created to favour 'the few' esp when viewing and listening to these revelations during tough times for lotsa people in this country!! It's an obscenity and just exposes how skewed and flawed a system it is with no recourse whatsoever!! Recession and financial downturn? Not for these select groups of people!!!