At a meeting with Beeb chief Mark Thompson at the Television Centre in London yesterday, over 100 BBC personalities, including "Top Gear"'s Jeremy Clarkson, Brit TV icon Bruce Forsyth and Radio 2 morning drive institution Terry Wogan (but not including Graham Norton, Radio 1 morning driver Chris Moyles and talk show host Jonathan Ross, whose suspension for aiding and abetting Russell Brand's harassment of Andrew Sachs recently ended) were told that if they make over 100,000 GBP a year working for the taxpayer-funded pubcaster, they are to expect at least a 25% salary cut (and maybe up to 40%)--generally, they seemed to accept it as a price of the economy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/10/jeremy-clarkson-terry-wogan-pay-cuts The Beeb had gotten into some controversy over the contracts they gave out to keep stars like Norton, whose BBC2 talk show is moving to mass appeal BBC1 in the fall and is becoming the star of the One's big Saturday night "entertainment" shows (and the anchor of the Beeb's Eurovision song contest coverage), and Ross, who supposedly last year signed an 16.9M GBP three-year contract to host his "Friday Night" talk show (which starts running here on BBCA Friday night in prime time) and his Saturday midday talk-and-music show on Radio 2 before Sachsgate happened. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
