Zoe Ball. Salary of £1.36M. Are the BBC Having a Laugh?
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Zoë Ball has had an increase in her salary from £370K to £1.36M after taking over the breakfast show where she has lost over ONE MILLION listeners.
How can this be right? If she was on performance related pay, she'd be on minimum wage.
And how can the BBC justify this? They have been bleating that they can't afford to give the over 75s a free license, but then pull this kind of stunt.
I really get the hump with having to pay the BBC money when I don't watch anything on the BBC.
Your thoughts?
Can I get a big pay rise for being annoying?
Personally I would opt out of using all BBC if I could
I pay every month to maybe watch a couple of football matches a year. The rest on bbc is awful so i cant see why anyone deserves a pay rise but i know the pays were adjusted to improve gender pay gaps which should have happened ages ago.
Getsome Yeah, I get that both genders should have equal pay, but if someone is absolute rubbish and costs the corporation over a million listeners, where is the justification in giving them such a wage increase?
It's just a load of PC nonsense and it's about time that the government steps in and makes the BBC a subscription only service. It's not fit for purpose in my opinion.
TheChimp The bbc should have been subscription ages ago but they know the viewers would plummet because of the crap thats shown. They will just say her pay rise is to bridge the gap but im with you thinking she doesn't deserve one on the basis she lost that many viewers. I would give it to another female but dont know any others as i dont watch bbc
Why don't they lower both genders pay and give us a lower bill we deserve it more
@TheChimp
Imnotcheap I get your point, but we should be paying NOTHING.
Have you seen what's on BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4 tonight?
The answer is an absolute pile of crap, like usual.
The only thing I watch on bbc is casualty and that off because of covid
Nice of you to say crap that's the nicest thing you could have called it TheChimp
Gender should have nothing to do with it, you should be paid what you are worth. Why should a low performing woman be paid the same as a high performing man? Or vice versa. No one should have their pay quadrupled in one hit!
This really annoys me (along with footballers wages!) why so much?? There are people working a whole lot harder for much much less 
These salaries are just incredible and bear no resemblance to normal people’s lives and experience. How must an NHS nurse feel reading this? It is a disgrace that so many BBC employees are paid such large salaries whilst they are removing free licences for over 75s. Have they no morals?
And the Premier League 
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gerrykelly25 I've got no problem with them removing free licenses for the pensioners that can afford them, so I'm not bothered with that aspect.
At least the people who get pension credit because they're under the threshold still get them for free.
TheChimp, many elderly people do not claim pension credit either due to pride (wanting to ‘pay their own way’) or not knowing they are eligible to claim. Taking a benefit away from such a vulnerable section of the population is callous whilst paying such inflated wages to their employees.
Many older people rely on terrestrial tv as they do not subscribe to Netflix etc.
TheChimp the licence was introduced as a universal benefit to pensioners precisely for the points outlined by Gerry below. Age Concern report that a million elders do not speak to anyone on average every week. Television for many is their only entertainment. The Govt shifted the responsibility back to the BBC(renegading on an agreement) This country treats old people terribly. This is just a further insu
gerrykelly25 There is no need to subscribe to Netflix (or anything else) to watch catch up. You can watch catch up with a Now stick (or similar) or a Smart TV. It is necessary to have a broadband connection (which I believe is also essential for Netflix).
Apparently many BBC productions are available on Britbox (£5.99 a month) no licence necessary even for BBC, so those who have a licence are paying TWICE. 
Many older people I work with do not have internet access, they are used to watching ‘live’ tv and are familiar with the times for the soaps etc. The news is also a significant programme for them to watch ’live‘ currently as is sport such as football, cricket and horse racing.
gerrykelly25 Exactly that is presumably why they or anyone else who doesn't have broadband don't subscribe to Netflix. With Netflix being mentioned I thought I'd try to explain.
I have tried to explain to one 79 year old today, that in many cases it can actually cost less to have a telephone line with a broadband connection than it is for what many pay for just the telephone line. 
davidstockport change can be scary and many older people just can’t adapt to new technology.
gerrykelly25 That's true - but many of us do try. Time to fetch two tin cans and a length of string back methinks.
I wouldn't pay anyone on the BBC more than £50K pa (and probably only £25K if I'm honest). If they really like the job then they would carry on doing it anyway! Let them work for a 'proper' wage for a change as the rest of us have to. Money grabbing ****'s 
Personally can't stand the women don't see the BBC lasting much longer in its current form .
Yeah there's certainly a point where something stops being a damn good salary and just starts getting into stupid money. I guess the argument is where that point is, I think it was reached long, long before the 370k let alone the 1.36million.
It’s almost immoral what some of the presenters and news readers are paid. It’s not rocket science reading from an auto queue!
It's perhaps up to everyone who has a broadband connection, to stop buying a licence and watch everything they want to watch on catch-up. Doesn't apply to BBC though - but who cares! (not much to lose) When sufficient numbers do that there'll be no alternative but to either put TV licence fee into general taxation or make BBC subscription only.
Nowadays you have a choice whether to support the BBC or not. I don't have a tv license and have no interest in getting one again. It's none of my concern how they spend their money, yes it seems like a organisation that is destined to shrink and even disappear based on how they manage themselves today. Ultimately when the BBC is at the point of collapse no doubt their history of excessive wages and poor management will be reviewed. What will be annoying is if the government decide to use taxpayer's money to prop up this grossly inefficient and incompetent organisation. As ever if you think her wages are morally wrong then you shouldn't support such an organisation, i.e. have a tv license.
"Aaaaaahhhhhh" Zoe "Gorgeous" Ball. I swear if she uses that word one more time I will self combust. Along with "lovely", "fantastic", "Prod Squad" (yeah it rhymes, clever eh?). The woman has the vocabulary of an 8 yr old. Completely and utterly out of her depth. She has nothing to say and no idea what to say. Hence constant fillers such as "Aaaaaaahhhhhh". She always sounds as though she's desperate for her show to end and the KB show to begin. Aren't we all?
Not to be rude but I dont even know who she is. Can that money be spent somewhere better?
chelseaturpin She's an absolute no mark who spouts rubbish. You're better off not knowing to be honest.
This week Zoe Ball announced she had covid like the whole world would stop because she was off sick. Hope the BBC stopped her ludicrous £1.3 million pro rata salary. She basically works 3 hours a day of which at least 2 hours is music and weather and news.
Nice work if you can get it. Get rid of her show asap
AndyBright85140 Stick Sara Cox and everyone else on the BBC into the deal.
I'm fuming that I have to pay a license fee.
It's not compulsary to have a tv license nowadays, if you don't use iplayer or watch live tv then you don't need one. You can still stream itv, ch4, ch5 programs and use many other streaming services. I've not had a TV license for about 4 years and don't miss it. My mother lives nearby and it was always a plan that anything I really wanted to watch on BBC I would watch there but in fact that never happened to any degree. I also get great satisfaction that I'm not funding such a dire inefficient and incompetent organisation. I still resent that I can't watch other live channels though, that is a crime in itself that if I was to watch a live tv channel stream from outer mongola it would be illegal because of the terms of the TV license. Also how on earth can they use the terms 'freeview' and 'freesat' when you can't use them without buying a tv license which is a subscription payment.
BonzoBanana Was it ever mandatory to have it? I read comments of people who say they never had it and if they don't watch Live TV or BBC iPlayer then they shouldn't be forced to pay for a stupid subscription.
Since 2019 I've not had a TVL subscription and I've not received any letters, neither should they do that to people because threatening them just makes it even worse.
I have a budget notebook with a 17" screen and I'm pretty satisfied with it, I use it to watch shows and movies. And today I played a bit of Smash 64 on it (but this keyboard just isn't built for gaming, lol).
Edit: Calling "Freeview" and "Freesat" really is false advertisement because it's not free as it requires a license/subscription to watch it, so they should change it to Payview and Paysat.
PhilipMarc Fairly sure it was a legal requirement to have a tv license in the past if you owned a TV but then back then all you really used them for was live channels. Not sure when it became legal to own a tv without a tv license. I could probably google it if I was ar**d but I'm not. Of course many people simply refused to buy a tv license and used a tv anyway and got away with it. The BBC used to have a fleet of TV detector vans that were simple vans with an aerial on top to look like they housed equipment but I think it was just meant to frighten people as I believe no one was ever caught by a detector van and was never used for a single prosecution of non-payers in court as evidence.
There were also rumours that they would phone up houses without a tv license and not answer when the phone was picked up but listen to see if they could hear live tv in the house and use that as the first stage of an investigation. That seems true to me as it would cost so little money to do and would be very effective. Actually maybe it isn't true as the BBC seem to like to waste huge amounts of money whatever they do and that seems far too sensible for them.
I don't listen to the radio so I couldn't careless how much these so call presenters command.
I quite agree, £370k is ridiculousy high to begin with, never mind £1.36 million, especially when the over 75's have to pay, utter madness.
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