Rip Off Britain


The BBC is engulfed in another row over its generous use of public money - to pay film star salaries to male TV presenters.

Yesterday the Sunday Times highlighted the fact that female presenters of some of the Beeb's most popular shows - are being paid up to 40 times less than their male counterparts on Match of the Day.

Apparently the female presenters of Rip Off Britain - Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville earn just £1,000 per episode.

Even though their programme regularly attracts 5 million viewers - knocking Match of the Day's 4.5 million into a cocked hat.

Yet the male presenters on MOTD - Gary Linker, Alan Hansen and Alan Shearer - are treated like TV royalty and enjoy film star salaries of up to £2 milion a year.

Gary Lineker - £2 million
Alan Hansen - £1.5 million
Alan Shearer - £400,000 

Now quite who negotiates these generous appearance fees is not clear, but it can't be a hard job - especially if you're negotiating with other people's money.

The TV licence payers' money that is - and for what amounts to a few hours work as opposed to a real job.

So it just goes to show that it's not just the bankers and their bonuses that rip off Britain - the top brass at BBC are doing a fine job of it as well.

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