[TV] What could the BBC do to cut costs or bring in more money

[knocky1]

Sack lots of women and use the small wage savings to help pay the high earning male’s wages.

 

[dazzer6666]

It's totally a political issue as the BBC funding is made up of programs they sell to other broadcasters which balanced against the cost of buying broadcasts production by others which leaves the BBCs funding comes exclusively from our taxes and I want more money from taxes going into the BBC and less into funding vanity projects such as payments to the DUP, funding companies to provide ships when they had no ships, funding to refurbished the Houses of Parliament which is beyond refurbishment and should be handed over to the National Trust as a museum, funding landowners who have millions already just because they have land I could go on, it's completely political

....and more money for full stops. Phew ! [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[AmexRuislip]

Axe Mrs Brown's Boys, Miranda, Eastenders, Casualty, Question Time, The News, The One Show, Bargain Hunt, Escape To The Country, Garden Rescue, Eat Well For Less, DIY SOS, Springwatch, Flog It, The Hit List (and all other talent type shows) Country File, Antiques Roadshow, Radio 1, Radio 3.....

I realise R1 may be a bit too much for you , but they still play some great new stuff in the evening, similar to Radio X.
Ost o faith daytime stuff, will make your ears bleed.

Pretty sure most of this lot could stomach a pay drop:

Gary Lineker - £1,750,000-£1,759,999
Chris Evans - £1,660,000-£1,669,999
Graham Norton - £600,000-£609,999
Steve Wright - £550,000-£559,999
Huw Edwards - £520,000-£529,999
Jeremy Vine - £440,000-£449,999
Nicky Campbell - £410,000-£419,999
Alan Shearer - £410,000-£419,999
Nick Grimshaw - £400,000-£409,999
John Humphrys - £400,000-£409,999
Andrew Marr - £400,000-£409,999
Stephen Nolan - £400,000-£409,999
Claudia Winkleman - £370,000-£379,999
Simon Mayo - £340,000-£349,999
Vanessa Feltz - £330,000-£339,999
Eddie Mair - £330,000-£339,999
Ken Bruce - £300,000-£309,999
George Alagiah - £290,000-£299,999
Scott Mills - £280,000-£289,999
Jason Mohammad - £260,000-£269,999
Nick Robinson - £250,000-£259,999
Evan Davis - £250,000-£259,000

A wage cap could be the answer.
Stop all these high profile contracts, if they wont accept this, then offer chances to other up and coming DJs/ starlets.

 

[happypig]

Stop paying huge salaries to people like Gary Lineker, Graham Norton and Steve Wright.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Scrap Dr Who.

Even though it has got poorer and poorer, it actually MAKES money for the BBC with overseas sales.

So....

More Dr Who.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Part of the old BBC Wood Lane studios, have been converted into apartments and have an independent cinema built.
Where does the money go from this sale?
[MENTION=865]clapham_gull[/MENTION] might have an answer

 

[Stato]

Pretty sure most of this lot could stomach a pay drop:

Gary Lineker - £1,750,000-£1,759,999
Chris Evans - £1,660,000-£1,669,999
Graham Norton - £600,000-£609,999
Steve Wright - £550,000-£559,999
Huw Edwards - £520,000-£529,999
Jeremy Vine - £440,000-£449,999
Nicky Campbell - £410,000-£419,999
Alan Shearer - £410,000-£419,999
Nick Grimshaw - £400,000-£409,999
John Humphrys - £400,000-£409,999
Andrew Marr - £400,000-£409,999
Stephen Nolan - £400,000-£409,999
Claudia Winkleman - £370,000-£379,999
Simon Mayo - £340,000-£349,999
Vanessa Feltz - £330,000-£339,999
Eddie Mair - £330,000-£339,999
Ken Bruce - £300,000-£309,999
George Alagiah - £290,000-£299,999
Scott Mills - £280,000-£289,999
Jason Mohammad - £260,000-£269,999
Nick Robinson - £250,000-£259,999
Evan Davis - £250,000-£259,000

Evans, Humphrys and Mair are already gone from that list. Also, getting rid of all of them at the most would seem to save about £15-20m. The bill that the government has dumped onto the BBC is more like £750m.

 

[dadams2k11]

Stop hiding pedophile rings and being corrupt?

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I think to try and be sensible rather than turn it into a political football, if advertising is to be the way forward, they do it on BBC overseas( when we have been in hotels and cruise ships) but they do not interrupt programmes, rather between programmes.

I could live with that as to be honest between programmes, the bbc advertise their up coming shows anyway. The itv model of having “ sponsored by” on their big shows can get tedious, and the slot 10 minutes before a show is finished where they wap in as many adverts as possible does sometimes mean you lose track of a tense moment! and the sky model of pumping their sports slots with betting adverts wouldn’t work on the beeb.

I am very surprised that BBC sounds is not a subscription app, as for example, you can download playlists etc that other apps like apple play Spotify would look to charge for.

Maybe make that a £10 a month and that would bring in some cash...

 

[Goldstone1976]

Pretty sure most of this lot could stomach a pay drop:

Gary Lineker - £1,750,000-£1,759,999
Chris Evans - £1,660,000-£1,669,999
Graham Norton - £600,000-£609,999
Steve Wright - £550,000-£559,999
Huw Edwards - £520,000-£529,999
Jeremy Vine - £440,000-£449,999
Nicky Campbell - £410,000-£419,999
Alan Shearer - £410,000-£419,999
Nick Grimshaw - £400,000-£409,999
John Humphrys - £400,000-£409,999
Andrew Marr - £400,000-£409,999
Stephen Nolan - £400,000-£409,999
Claudia Winkleman - £370,000-£379,999
Simon Mayo - £340,000-£349,999
Vanessa Feltz - £330,000-£339,999
Eddie Mair - £330,000-£339,999
Ken Bruce - £300,000-£309,999
George Alagiah - £290,000-£299,999
Scott Mills - £280,000-£289,999
Jason Mohammad - £260,000-£269,999
Nick Robinson - £250,000-£259,999
Evan Davis - £250,000-£259,000

The BBC fires them all (with no redundancy payments) and replaces them with other people already on the payroll and doesn’t pay those folk any more for their new roles. They’ve just saved £11m pa, or 1.5% of the cost of free licences to over 75s.

Where’s the other £734m pa coming from?

 

[nicko31]

Over 75's to pay a premium, they watch TV the most...

 

[BBassic]

The BBC fires them all (with no redundancy payments) and replaces them with other people already on the payroll and doesn’t pay those folk any more for their new roles. They’ve just saved £11m pa, or 1.5% of the cost of free licences to over 75s.

Where’s the other £734m pa coming from?

I'm just the ideas guy. You need the solution guy. He's down the hall.

 

[DavidRyder]

Isn't it about time the BBC joined the 21st century, and got sponsorship through advertising, rather than holding onto this 'we're the Beeb and we don't have ghastly ads ruining our programmes' attitude?

 

[Barham's tash]

They’re launching a new streaming service in conjunction with ITV which will be monetised and anyway their commercial arm makes huge sums of money. The licence fee is a complete misnomer a bit like saying Prem clubs make all their revenue from ticket sales when they plainly don’t.

 

[blue-shifted]

I agree with this. Why should it be the BBC's job to pay for the government's social policy? Trying to get them do so is another cynical Tory move, as is expressing "disappointment" that they've decided to restrict this to the poorer pensioners only. The BBC have made the right compromise.

I'm sure there are places where the BBC could save a few quid, but the message from the market is clear, quality content costs. And they produce quality content.

The bbc shouldn't really do anything. This is shifting the blame for what is essentially a tax tory increase. Here's what should happen,Tory leadership candidates instead of promising massive tax cuts for the wealthy should promise to pay for the free license fees for the over 75's. The whole things stinks as a tory scheme to undermine support for the bbc.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Why?

What about people who earn less than £30K and have multiple very expensive TVs? Should they pay more?

Also,,,they could define how much is an expensive tv?

 

[LamieRobertson]

There's not a lot of point trying to protect free access for the over 75s if you take most of their programmes away.

Good point

 

[Juan Albion]

They’re launching a new streaming service in conjunction with ITV which will be monetised and anyway their commercial arm makes huge sums of money. The licence fee is a complete misnomer a bit like saying Prem clubs make all their revenue from ticket sales when they plainly don’t.

It's been going for a while. I've had it for many months.

 

[LamieRobertson]

I love the bbc and would happily pay £400 for the license ..oh and bring back the test card a clear winner

 

[studio150]

Isn't it about time the BBC joined the 21st century, and got sponsorship through advertising, rather than holding onto this 'we're the Beeb and we don't have ghastly ads ruining our programmes' attitude?

They could start with Blue Peter and allow Sellotape to be used rather than sticky back plastic