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Terry Wogan Calls for BBC Slimming Down
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Wogan criticises BBC building projects - DS NewsVeteran broadcaster Terry Wogan has called on the BBC to slim down and stop spending so much money on new building projects.
Speaking yesterday to Richard Bacon on his Radio 5 Live show, Wogan claimed that the BBC is rapidly becoming the "British Building Corporation". He also said that there are too many services operated by the corporation that should be axed.
"The problem with the BBC frankly is it's got too big. It's got a bit unwieldy, there are far too many people employed to keep this big machine going. It might be better if there was a bit of slimming down," Wogan said.
More and more people are criticising the spending at the BBC.
No doubt, he'll also be deemed "anti-BBC", just as posters here who express the same views, but it's good to see him speaking up about this and question that the BBC is getting too much money and how the BBC spends the money.
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There was also this part that you did not comment upon:
mossy2103
But whatever they do, you'll not be happy.
well wogan we pay for it
Where does he say that the BBC is getting too much money?
I like Wogan, but this smacks of "I've made my money, so sod everyone else who's still trying to make a career there". Same with Mark Byford and his amazing wig, on Newswatch. He was asked about whether he thought the changes at the BBC were right, but he had a glint in his eye that said, "I've got £1m pay-off and I'm happy!!"
Total farce.
When did he leave?
Given the known facts that the BBC had to move it's a pointless thread IMO and also the title, perhaps you should ask for a section in the forum dedicated to building projects
White CIty was an attempt to get most facilities into just one site, for example the abaondoned Maida Vale, Langham Hotel, etc .....
Moving some depts to Manchester is a sincere attempt to "spead the jobs around" - so decreasing London-centricity - and may be cheaper in the long run .........
Perhaps he is getting his own back on the BBC for asking him to slim down
Seriously it does seem a bit rich coming from someone who was allegedly paid £800,000pa to act as a disc jockey.
Ant chance you could bother yourself to answer the questions I put to you in post 113 of the Young Fishmonger Of the Year thread you fled from before trying to whip up a new storm in this one?
No, thought not., trolls don't have such courtesy..
Spot on.
Why did he not say this in 1988 when he was, if not the highest, certainly amongst the highest paid presenters there?
He waits until he is in semi retirement, after having pocketed millions & millions to pipe up about the Beeb being too big.
Well done Terry!:mad:
The reason Terry was commenting on this was because he was asked in a radio interview. I was listening in the car and he was on to promote his compilation album, and Richard Bacon simply asked him his view on the BBC - he described it as the "greatest broadcaster in the world".
What he said is going to happen anyway whether the BBC like it or not, end of.
And never mind whether it be right or wrong.
He's the latest to be critical of the BBC after leaving, and while his points are a valid basis for debate, I am sceptical of him. I don't think he mentioned how much loot he got from the BBC, which is also a valid point as some took his pay as a prime example of the BBC becoming a 'let's pay as much licence payers money to our celebs as we can.'
He hasn't left the BBC.
Well lets debate away.
Do you think the BBC should not be spending money on these new buildings, bare in mind TV Centre will eventually close, the building up north was forced on the by the government.
Do you think it is all too expensive, what alternatives were there for the BBC to take.
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Do you have proof of this 'let's pay as much licence payers money to our celebs as we can' ethos. By the way just saying Jonathan Ross inst debate unless you can keep on going with a very very long list after that. Look forward to it.
Wogan's salary is irrelevant as he is talking about BBC money being spent on buildings and not on talent, although its easy to tar every talent with the now much maligned phrase 'celeb'. What wage should on of the most regarded radio/tv presenters be on? Who's radio show was the most listened to in the country.
The whole Wogan's wage is a nice, but pretty dumb, side step by those that have nothing to say about the issue at hand and on Wogan's comments about new BBC buildings.
Or is it what it is, a lame DS piece of news, along with juicy headline (notice the head line isnt 'Wogans Supports Lisence Fee' strange that isn't it??) piss poor cut and paste internet journalist designed to spoon feed moronic threads by the same old same old posters that need things like this to form their own opinion. Posters that have not even discussed the issues but have just nodded their head at hilariously bad DS shock headline tabloid guff.
Debate...I'll look forward to it and your alternative suggestions and costings as the debate certainly isn't going to come from Slo Mo.
The Home Office have announced a 14% cut in real terms over the next four years to the Police budget. With that in mind I have a hunch a lot of people might think a 16% cut in real terms over 6 years to the BBC budget is quite realistic, their management do.
Also radio listeners in cities like Edinburgh and Glasgow may well be unhappy with the fact that from 2014 part of the Licence Fee will be used to fund the World Service when they don't even have their own local BBC radio services which I personally find staggering and should be scrutinised.
The Police cuts are all wrong though, in fact many of this government's cuts are wrong.
Cutting the BBC is wrong also - Particularly as the reasons for doing so are only to satisfy the commercial sector, who will NOT provide all that the BBC does, and will cost the viewer more.