BBC snouts in the public trough special
Robert Henderson
Daily telegraph
Mark Thompson defends BBC's expenses
Mark Thompson, the BBC Director-General, has defended the �350,000 paid
out in expenses to the corporation's top executives over the past five
years as "reasonable and justified".
Note: The �350,000 only covers the expenses paid for by the BBC
employees. Much larger expenses are paid for direct by the BBC. For
example, if a BBC executive stays in a hotel and pays �2,000 to the
hotel it is in published expenses: if the BBC pays the hotel direct it
isn't. RH
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BBC executive salaries
Mark Thompson, Director General: �647k*
Mark Byford, Deputy Director General: �459k*
Timothy Davie, Director, Audio & Music: �314k*
Jana Bennett, Director BBC Vision: �406k*
Zarin Patel, Chief Financial Officer: �329k*
John Smith, Chief Executive, BBC Worldwide: �380k** Caroline Thomson,
Chief Operating Officer: �328k* Peter Salmon, Director BBC North: �370k
- �400k Alan Yentob, Creative Director, BBC Finance: �310k - �340k***
Erik Huggers, Director, Future Media & Technology: �310k - �340k Helen
Boaden, Director BBC News: �310k - �340k Sharon Baylay, Director
Marketing, Communications & Audiences: �310k - �340k Balraj Samra,
Director of Vision Operations, BBC Vision: �280k - �310k Pat Loughrey,
Director, Nations & Regions: �280k - �310k Richard Sambrook Director,
BBC Global News: �280k - �310k Dominic Coles, Chief Operating Officer,
BBC Journalism: �250k - �280k Jay Hunt, Controller
BBC One, BBC Vision: �250k - �280k Roland Keating, Director of Archive
Content, BBC Vision: �250k - �280k Daniel Cohen, Controller, BBC
Three, BBC Vision: �220k - �250k Ed Williams, Director of
Communications, Marketing, Communications & Audiences: �220k - �250k
Janice Hadlow, Controller BBC2, BBC Vision: �220k - �250k John Linwood,
Chief Technology Officer, Future Media & Technology: �220k - �250k John
Yorke, Controller Drama Production, BBC Vision: �220k - �250k Julie
Gardner, Head, Ind Drama Commissioning, Nations & Regions: �220k - �250k
Nicholas Kroll, Director BBC Trust: �220k - �250k Richard Deverell,
Controller, BBC Children's, BBC Vision: �220k - �250k Roger Mosey,
Director, BBC Sport: �220k - �250k Andrew Parfitt, Controller,
R1/1Xtra/Asian Network, Audio & Music: �190k - �220k Andy Griffee,
Editorial Director, Project W1, Operations: �190k - �220k Anne Morrison,
Controller, Network Production, Nations & Regions: �190k - �220k Chris
Day, Group Financial Controller, BBC Finance: �190k - �220k Chris Kane,
Head of Corporate Real Estate, Operations Group: �190k - �220k Dorothy
Prior, Controller Production Resource, BBC
Finance: �190k - �220k Emma Swain, Head of In-House Commissioning, BBC
Vision: �190k - �220k Graham Ellis, Controller Production, Audio &
Music: �190k - �220k John Vickerman, HR Shared Services Director, BBC
People: �190k - �220k Liam Keelan, Controller, BBC Daytime, BBC
Vision: �190k - �220k Mark Damazer, Controller, Radio 4 & Radio 7,
Audio & Music: �190k - �220k Mike Goodie, Director Employee Relations &
People Strategy, BBC People: �190k - �220k Nicholas Eldred, Group
General Counsel & Secretary, Operations Group: �190k - �220k Peter
Horrocks, Director World Service: �190k - �220k Peter White, Chief
Executive Officer, BBC Digital UK: �190k - �220k Richard Klein,
Controller, BBC Four, BBC Vision: �190k - �220k Robert Shennan,
Controller Radio 2 & 6Music, Audio & Music: �190k - �220k Roger Wright,
Controller, R3, Audio & Music: �190k - �220k Stephen Mitchell, Head of
Multimedia Programmes, BBC News: �190k - �220k Tom Archer, Controller,
Factual Production, BBC Vision: �190k - �220k George Entwistle,
Controller, Knowledge Commissioning, BBC Vision: �160k - �190k Jonathan
Beazley, Controller, Entertainment Production, BBC
Vision: �160k - �190k Nicolas Brown, Director, Drama Production, BBC
Vision: �160k - �190k
* Base salary for members of the Executive Board as published in
2007/2008 Annual Report & Accounts. ** John Smith's salary has been
fully funded by BBC Commercial Businesses since September 1 2006. He is
included in the list as he sits on the BBC's Executive Board *** Alan
Yentob's salary is the full-time equivalent of his pro rata salary for
reduced hours. The figures above are correct at May 7 2009, the BBC
said, and include London weighting but not other allowances.
Note: The idea that the BBC is managed by wondrously able people who
could earn zillions more if they worked for private companies is
ludicrous. The BBC is essentially a civil service operation, very large
(20,000+ employees) and with an assured revenue stream. Management
within it is administrative not entrepreneurial. The idea that people
who have spent all or most of their working life climbing the
Corporation's management ladder would be a whizz at private enterprise
is fanciful. That is not to say running the BBC is a piece of cake
because large scale administration has its own special demands. What it
does mean is that BBC managers will not in most cases be eagerly sought
after by private broadcasters because they have no experience of a
commercial environment.
As for the BBC top executive expenses, whilst not as flagrant as those
of MPs, they show the general arrogance of those with power when it
comes to power. No matter how much they earn, they milk them to the
limit. During my time with the Revenue,. I never inspected a company of
any size where that was not the case. RH
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Robert Henderson
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Divided by Diversity
could earn zillions more if they worked for private companies is
ludicrous."
LOL! To work in the arts you do need a fanciful imagination.
Jon°
wrote:
The main perquisite required by "Anti-British-Broadcasting-
Corporation" job applicants is a hatred of all things British, past or
present.