Bill Walker
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People shouldnt be forced to pay for a service they may not want, especially when that service wastes millions.
Isnt this the kind of thing they do in dictatorships?
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Today host "incandescent with rage"
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Isnt this the kind of thing they do in dictatorships?
bluethrunthru
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People shouldnt be forced to pay for a service they may not want, especially when that service wastes millions.
Isnt this the kind of thing they do in dictatorships?
Fine - I absolutely agree - but non payers get no access to BBC progs repeated on other channels like Gold or Yesterday because they opted out of contributing to their making. As the BBC were made to syphon off license money to set up DAB non contributors should not have DAB access either. These are all things you don't want so shouldn't miss anyway.
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Liz nailed it.
It's worth watching the whole debate, not just this soundbite.
BerkshireBlue
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So she thinks she should get paid the same as people who have 10 to 30 years more experience and appear on TV far more. Ridiculous claim, I'd push her straight out of the door if I was running the bbc.
bluethrunthru
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Liz nailed it.
It's worth watching the whole debate, not just this soundbite.
Yes but the background to this is that the govt were countering claims that the BBC was an overblown monopoly so had to farm productions out to independents and so on - therefore to meet this employee's went self employed as described here ( and thats a common practise in many many walks of life over recent years - also helps employers to avoid sick pay and holiday pay ) and most of the independent companies were set up by existing producers who lets face it were the ones who knew how to do it and knew the business and the people in it so they could maximise their cut from it. Its far from a good thing but a lot of them went for it when they could see a chance to make a buck - they just get pissed off that they aren't making the same buck as everybody else.
Magicpole
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You seem to have confused two seperate things though. You can be outraged with what they are paid, thats one thing. But that doesnt mean she is wrong to expect to be paid the same as her co hosts, thats a different issue..
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tornandfrayed
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I thought this would be about Atkinson not giving the Kun penalty!
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Turns out Sarah Montague was a bit pissed off to find she was being paid "only " £133,000 pa to co-host the Today programme on Radio 4. She found out when she didn't appear on the BBC's " employee's paid over £150k pa " list like her three ( male ) co-hosts did.
What outrages me is the salaries paid to these twats to sit at a desk in a studio and read the news on the radio. The fact that they all feel so entitled to this amazes me and the fact Ms Montague cannot grasp what she is saying staggers me. She complained her lower salary "subsidised other peoples lifestyles". What about us license fee payers subsidising hers???
It beggars belief the eye-watering sums that these BBC apparatchiks are paid. If they ran around for thirty hours a day with a red hot poker up their broadcasting arses they'd still be grossly overpaid. Ask about it and you'll be told that to get the best we have to pay top dollar. I wouldn't mind paying top dollar if we had the best, but when do we get them. I haven't heard anyone clamouring to switch on Today, or any other BBC programme because the host is a broadcasting genius and the programmes are unmissable.
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Don't say that you will have some old codgers telling us how the BBC is great and that we should all be forced to pay.
Yer might, but not this FO codger!
Scottyboi
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Fine - I absolutely agree - but non payers get no access to BBC progs repeated on other channels like Gold or Yesterday because they opted out of contributing to their making. As the BBC were made to syphon off license money to set up DAB non contributors should not have DAB access either. These are all things you don't want so shouldn't miss anyway.
So does the BBC give Gold access to their programs free of charge? and DAB radio who gives a shit lmao.