BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat

Kennyboy66

R1 "Newsbeat" broadcasts a 15 minute news programme twice a day, plus hourly news bulletins.

For this they need 52 full time employees !


(the 52 does not include its own technical and production staff).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio/downloads/john_myers_report_june_2011.pdf?intcmp=239

purch

It takes most of them to "dumb" down the News for the yoof market :eek:

My 14yo get's most upset when the news readers feel the need to explain who David Cameron is.

wymondham

for that number do they make up their own news?

Loughton_Monkey

Why does any of this surprise?

The BBC is a 'gravy train' of the worst possible kind. Compare, for example, ther 'reality' of a commercial media company that may, from time to time, have to take a 30% (or more) hit on revenue, but still turn a 'profit'. Compare it with BBC who have been horrified by a simple 'freeze' on revenue.

Aren't the salaries of the top lot one of the 'hints' that this is a gravy train? Wasn't Jonathan Ross's salary just a small hint that they have money to burn?

It is extremely easy to spot all the wastage. How many 'minor' (say) scientific programs do you see..... they probably talk about the price of silver and its use in solar heating etc..... All very true, very informative, and good quality.... UNTIL you see the presenter (and presumably an entourage of 15 'crew') swanning off to Brazil (or wherever) for a 2 minute slot on how silver is mined.

If they concentrated on making good quality entertainment programmes, and News, they could be excellent value for money. If I were Cameron, I'd start again and sack the top two or three 'slices' of management, and recruit a new focused team to improve quality on far less money.

Moving all the 'plebs' to Manchester, where cheaper labour is available, is simply a ruse to ensure that the bosses can continue to languish in London and waste all the license payers' money.

Message from Alan Sugar to Mark Thompson. "Your Fired".

Cleaver

Seems a lot, but I can't really bring myself to care. For around £12 a month I get the BBC website, Radio 4, Match of the Day, no adverts, Radio 4, some good music after 7pm on Radio 1, Radio 4, Brian Cox, Eddie Mair, Radio 4, decent sport coverage, Horizon, some other good docs, Radio 4, news that isn't on ITV or Sky, Mighty Boosh, Radio 4 and Radio 4. Did I mention that I quite like Radio 4? I'd happily pay £12 a month for Radio 4. I like Radio 4.

Why do people get so annoyed about the BBC? It's a tenner a month, who really cares? You probably spend more a month on ham, or once in a car park. Stop moaning.

Loughton_Monkey

Cleaver wrote: »

Why do people get so annoyed about the BBC? It's a tenner a month, who really cares? You probably spend more a month on ham, or once in a car park. Stop moaning.

Hang on a mo....

It's a matter of principle that even if it's only £10 a month, I resent it when at least £4 of that is wasted! A ratio that really adds up when you scale it up to Central and Local Government costs - equally wasted.

And I will continue to moan. Us retirees have an excellent 'mentor' in the shape of one Victor Meldrew* [ironically an excellent BBC Programme] and moaning is one of the pleasures of life.


*Incidentally, as an avid watcher of Victor, I struggle to understand the 'street level' opinion that Victor was such a miserable old sod, that he bought all these things upon himself. Watch the programmes in detail! Virtually everything Victor moans about was generally not of his own making. He had a right to moan. He had a right to be a miserable old sod. He is an icon.

tartanterra

Cleaver wrote: »

Why do people get so annoyed about the BBC?

As the BBC is funded by almost all of us on a compulsory basis, and is protected by Parliament, we have every right to be annoyed.

As exposed by Panorama last year, there are 331 managers within the BBC earning more than £100,000 a year.

In fact, out of the top 10 earners in the entire Public sector, 7 of them were from the BBC, including:

Director General - £838,000
Director, Vision - £517,000
Deputy Director General - £488,000
Director, Audio and Music - £452,000
Chief Financial Officer - £434,000
Chief Operating Officer - £419,000
Director Future Media - £407,000

And let's think about some of the others further down the pay list:

Director MC&A - £345,000
Director BBC People - £328,000
Director BBC News - £327,800
Area COO - £325,000
Chief Creative Officer - £317,800
Director, Global News - £312,780
Director Vision Operations - £288,300
Director BBC Trust - £282,609
Controller BBC1 - £272,800
Controller of Drama - £270,919
COO, Journalism - £265,300
Director of Archive - £257,800
Director 2012 - £249,030
Chief Technology Officer - £247,800

I could go on, but you get the general gist of it. Interestingly, the BBC has a "Reward Director" (Salary - £196,550, not bad eh?)

As this is reputedly a public service, and I have to pay for it, I would think it is reasonable that I should expect value for money.

I believe in the concept of a Public broadcaster, but unfortunately, I think the whole business has turned into a barely accountable gravy train full of "jobs for the boys".

The whole of the BBC needs a damn good shake up.

lostinrates

Cleaver wrote: »

Seems a lot, but I can't really bring myself to care. For around £12 a month* I get the BBC website, Radio 4, Match of the Day, no adverts, Radio 4, some good music after 7pm on Radio 1, Radio 4, Brian Cox, Eddie Mair, Radio 4, decent sport coverage, Horizon, some other good docs, Radio 4, news that isn't on ITV or Sky, Mighty Boosh, Radio 4 and Radio 4. Did I mention that I quite like Radio 4? I'd happily pay £12 a month for Radio 4. I like Radio 4.

Why do people get so annoyed about the BBC? It's a tenner a month, who really cares? You probably spend more a month on ham, or once in a car park. Stop moaning.

I like the BBC too. Very much.

But I'd like it just as much if it were £11 a month, not twelve. That would give me £12 extra a month. Yes, I'd like it more. This could mean I could add that to other areas of the economy, or sponser a third world child, or something. Its what, two big boxes of washing powder...that's a couple of months a year of your laundry detergent for free. Its more than I spend on washing up liquid a year, and scouring pads. Probably more than spend on my soap a year too.

I most certainly do not spend £12 a month on ham, or in a routine month, on parking!


And counting £12 as a tenner is the slippery slope of overspend. if its going to be rounded in personal expenditure round up....and round down what you earn. If you are lucky it will result in the ''spare'' cash at the end of the year to pay for a tv licence.

edit* absent minded but funny. I do not have 12 homes.

purch

Why do people get so annoyed about the BBC? It's a tenner a month, who really cares?

Irrespective of how much you pay, you should still be worried or interested in how it's spent.

Why does the BBC feel the need to send 8 different production and presenting teams to Los Angeles every year to cover the Oscars ?

If they spent the "tenners" more wisely, maybe they would produce even higher quality content than they already do.

molerat

Cleaver wrote: »

snip... It's a tenner a month, who really cares? .......snip

That is the attitude that has got this country into the !!!! it is in. Only a tenner here, a tenner there and you are soon a tenner over what you earn. We should be interested where these gravy trains are spending our money. Cut only a pound here, a pound there and we will all be better off, except maybe for some of the luvvies at the beeb.

ILW

lostinrates wrote: »

I like the BBC too. Very much.

But I'd like it just as much if it were £11 a month, not twelve. That would give me £12 extra a month.

You should apply for the finance directors job at the BBC.