Bbc Presenter Is Awarded Undisclosed Payout.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267512/Suzanne-Virdee-BBC-presenter-claiming-bullied-poisonous-atmosphere-awarded-payout.html

Haven't the BBC licence payer a right to know, the amount of such payouts?

[jno]

you're paying for the right to run a TV, just as you pay for the right to run a car. Your choice whether you have a car or a TV; if you don't, there's nothing to pay.

What the government use the licence fee for is of no more account than what they use the car tax for.

[Bazile]

//it's a levy to ensure that anyone accessing broadcast media from any supplier is also contributing to the upkeep of the public broadcaster which maintains the highest standards without relying on commercial sponsorship or advertising. //

It should be my direct choice as to whether or not i contribute to the
' upkeep of the public broadcaster '

[Bazile]

//Your choice whether you have a car or a TV; if you don't, there's nothing to pay. //

I have already adressed that arguement .

I've now said all that I want to say on this subject .... i wonder what's for tea

[Zeuhl]

why baz?

as i asked someone earlier, do you have a choice whether you pay towards the Parks and Gardens you may never use, the Museums and Art Galleries you may never visit and the Public Buildings, Statues and National Monuments you may never see

It is judged that they make a beneficial contribution to our society

Just as BBC TV, Radio, Online is judged by the majority of people to make a positive contribution to the high standards of our Media industry and to our social environment

[emmie]

if there were no BBC, presumably there would be no licence fee.
Just a thought.

[Zeuhl]

/if there were no BBC, presumably there would be no licence fee. /

and the broadcast media which would be much crappier than they are now and Rupert Murdoch would own most of them

What a horrible prospect

[emmie]

would they, why can't the BBC raise revenue by doing what all the other channels do and that is advertising, after all it does so often, promoting it's own programmes endlessly, has guest celebs on the One Show and other chat shows, promoting their book, film, gig, which is all advertising in one form or another. Don't have so many people to read the rolling 24 hour news, any number on location around the country, either getting snowed on, or drenched to the skin, the meteorologists are pretty good at explaining what the weathers doing. That is without building a state of the art centre in Salford, and moving many of your staff
to supposedly save money, when in truth it doesn't seem to have done.

[Zeuhl]

Because as soon as a broadcaster becomes dependent on advertising then ratings become paramount.

I know the BBC already produces mass market programmes that trounce the commercial channels but the difference would be at the margins.

How many high quality natural history programmes are made by the commercial stations? Would Radio 3 or 4 be commercially viable? Would Watchdog be able to criticise a major advertiser? Would the Olympics coverage have been so extensive?

BTW the number of people reading news is a red herring
1. the cost is insignificant in the overall cost per hour 2. In 'Rolling News' it allows one news anchor to take a briefing through their earpiece or screen while the other is speaking 3. News staff are different to the old days of News Readers ; they don't just turn up and receive a script from an editor, they are also 'rolling' from studio to office where they are preparing their own material for the next broadcast.

[emmie]

so the BBC doesn't care about ratings?

[Zeuhl]

em

which bit of paragraph 2 didn't you understand?

/I know the BBC already produces mass market programmes that trounce the commercial channels but the difference would be at the margins. /

;-)

[emmie]

well you are obviously happy with the status quo, i am not.

[emmie]

pretty much like this sort of behaviour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19839836

[Zeuhl]

Well em

I thought their early stuff was good; 'Sweet Caroline' and 'Get Down' in particular
Their most recent recordings are poor.

They occasionally pop up on ToTP repeats, Old Grey Whistle Test compilations or Jools Holland

All BBC programmes of course.

[Sylvie]

The Daily Mail must have a special unit of hacks dedicated solely to the task of undermining the BBC such is the regularity of their very less than interesting "stories" about the corporation.

[emmie]

hilarious.

[Zeuhl]

/pretty much like this sort of behaviour./

em, ALL broadcasters pay 'Talent' as it is officially known (and accounted for) in the same way.

[emmie]

i once worked for them. Can't say my time there was particularly pleasant, informative or educational.
as to the DM, they have a viewpoint just like every other paper, as well as every other TV station.

[Zeuhl]

/i once worked for them. Can't say my time there was particularly pleasant, informative or educational./

Pleased to see your employment there hasn't embittered or prejudiced you against them :-)

[emmie]

funnily enough it didn't, what makes you think that. I had better jobs than that, they were a bunch of misogynistic dinosaurs, seems not much has changed.