25-07-2017, 00:48
I don't agree that just because the BBC is a public broadcasting company it should pay below market rate for jobs!! The BBC has a budget to work within and it makes the decisions as to how it spends that budget but if we want the BBC to remain a very good TV company then it needs to recruit the best presenters, actors, directors etc that it can. If you go down the road of employing lesser talent, then the quality of the programming will go down as well, for a tv company that makes no sense at all.
As regards the "going rate", the ones at the top of the list of earners all work on the national side of the business, which is based in London but also has other offices in the UK, not the local side, so not sure what difference that makes either. Match of the Day is filmed in Manchester, Strictly is partly filmed in Blackpool and most tv shows are filmed across the UK depending on the program. I am sure the local presenters are paid the "going rate" for their area, again no doubt based on the competition and on the viewing figures. How you can turn this into an anti-London or anti-UK thing is beyond me!!!
We live in a society that has always paid out large salaries to a small % of the population from a variety of walks of life, not just tv. There has never been a time when this hasn't been the case, its now a time when entertainment (sport, music, movies, tv etc) sees wages that put them in the top earners category above more traditional high earners such as lawyers, surgeons and company executives. Plenty of these top earners are Scottish as well, including quite a few on the BBC top earners list!!
As regards the "going rate", the ones at the top of the list of earners all work on the national side of the business, which is based in London but also has other offices in the UK, not the local side, so not sure what difference that makes either. Match of the Day is filmed in Manchester, Strictly is partly filmed in Blackpool and most tv shows are filmed across the UK depending on the program. I am sure the local presenters are paid the "going rate" for their area, again no doubt based on the competition and on the viewing figures. How you can turn this into an anti-London or anti-UK thing is beyond me!!!
We live in a society that has always paid out large salaries to a small % of the population from a variety of walks of life, not just tv. There has never been a time when this hasn't been the case, its now a time when entertainment (sport, music, movies, tv etc) sees wages that put them in the top earners category above more traditional high earners such as lawyers, surgeons and company executives. Plenty of these top earners are Scottish as well, including quite a few on the BBC top earners list!!