BBC transparency

We can't realistically avoid buying products advertised on TV can we? For one thing, I have hardly any idea what is advertised anyway as I never watch it live and wizz through the adverts without being aware of the products.

.....and that's probably why he commands such a high salary!

The regular viewers might not watch it without him.

chewbacca have to disagree I LOVE Charlie, wouldn't be the same without him!

How on earth can they justify most of them Ana?

At least with commercial TV we get to choose whether to buy the products they advertise. I have no choice about paying a licence fee to the BBC and over how much these nobodies are paid.

Charlie in Casualty seems to have only one expression and it's this
Sorry, nothing to do with the thread so I'll just toddle off...............

I agree, Gemmag - he's so wooden! How on earth can they justify that salary?

Derek Thompson 'Charlie' in casualty is paid £400.000. One of the worse actors I've ever seen. Shocking when you think that High Court Judges earn around £225.000. Some a bit more and some a bit less.

Steve Nolan is on 5 live. He does a phone in programme on Friday and Saturday night from 10 pm. Can be very interesting.

Not disclosing how much you earn is a very British thing and there is a lot to be said for it. We can feel much more comfortable in our relationships with friends by not knowing and hever asking.

However in the public sector, where there are published pay scales, colleagues usually do know. The BBC is publicly funded and so it may be fair to have full disclosure, but it can't be done without stirring up a lot of criticism, especially when the top salaries seem so stratospheric.

Just learned that there would be many more on the list but they are not paid directly but through their own production companies.

Eloethan - the difference is that the "talent" of the BBC are paid these salaries out of our licence fee whilst the BBC claim they don't have enough money to make new programmes. Ant and Dec are paid by a commercial company, if they didn't draw in enough viewers to generate advertising revenue they would not be paid those salaries, yes the advertising is paid for by the cost of the products but we can choose whether we buy them or not - we can't choose whether we pay the licence fee

I thought Chris Evans was the highest paid person on the BBC Eloethan.

What angers me is the age discrimination at the Beeb, a man with fifty years experience of broadcasting and a Woman with five years experience ? Fair enough the man earns more, but seventy year old women are a no no for the Beeb

As for Evans and Lineker? Disgraceful waste of money

One way or another, we pay for all the channels we watch - or don't watch. People subscribe to a channel and/or they pay for it indirectly through the cost of advertising built into a product's price. The "packages" on some subscription channels can be pretty expensive - and all programmes are interrupted by adverts.

I suppose it is reasonable that people should know what people at the BBC are paid. I'm not sure it should be confined to "high earners" (also, I don't think that, relative to commercial channels, they are "high earners". On The Wright Stuff this morning is was revealed that the salary of the highest paid person on the BBC, Graham Norton is £2.5m whereas that of Ant and Dec is £5m each). I knew a couple of people who worked in the offices of the BBC and they were fairly poorly paid.

I too wouldn't care if they left Oldwoman70 Who are these people anyway and what do they actually do to deserve these kinds of salaries? Most of them have "companies" set up to avoid paying their full taxes too.

Is Gary Lineker worth £1.8m? He's not even a trained journalist just an ex footballer! Stephen Nolan (who I have never heard of) is paid "up to" £449,000. Of course many are paid through a production company so the real salaries are still not revealed. BBC management say they have to pay "stars" these salaries or they will leave - well let them and, as I said before, bring in talent from local TV and radio - they will be cheaper and just as good, if not better.

15 hours per week, for how many weeks of the year ??? for a cool 2.2 million . For talking on the radio (mainly about yourself) nice work if you can get it !

I wish the BBC would give less air time to a lot of people including the aforementioned Chris (ego) Evans !

It will be a sad day if we lose the BBC which is what some Tories and some media moguls want. Just wish it would give less air time to Farage.

Is Chris Evans worth £ 2.2 million of licence payers money ?

Exactly Lucky.

I'm not sure it's a good thing to have them published - but that is just a gut reaction. I'll listen, watch, read any debate with interest.

I have more trust in the Beeb than other broadcasting companies . Naming these people will keep Twitter bile going

Te BEEB is not perfect but I am glad we have it.

I am concerned about the privacy issue for those paid these salaries, however, I do feel that this is public money (which we have no choice whether we pay or not) and we are entitled to know how this money is spent. I do feel it is a mistake for the BBC to stick to the usual "stars" who are then paid huge salaries when there are equally talented people working in local TV and radio who could be brought in.

we dont NEED to have the BBC at all it raking in cash and paying ridiculous wages to not only on screen personnel but administrators.Would maybe be better if they were truly a neutral annd didn't report biasedly on many things.The rise of reporters who think they have the right to swing the news in a direction THEY want it to go in has been clear in the past few years.The final straw for me was BBC NI having hours of Orange Walk on live TV and treating these knuckle draggers as if they were out for a family party.It had to be seen to be believed.The percentage of OO members in NI is not huge ,there is a minority of people in NI who support them so why this overload of coverage and WHY do they get away with it ?