{"id":731,"date":"2007-12-01T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2007-12-01T03:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T09:57:00","slug":"top-talent-salaries-how-much-would-you-pay-to-be-on-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/12\/top-talent-salaries-how-much-would-you-pay-to-be-on-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Top talent salaries – how much would you pay to be on the BBC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>alking to a telly presenter chum last night, we mused over the fact that you never hear broadcast execs bragging about how little they paid for talent. <\/p>\n

Instead, the sum handed over is somehow supposed to represent an \u201cindependent\u201d estimation of worth.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t take the word of some hapless telly type reassuring you about X\u2019s talent – look at their wad.<\/p>\n

Now the BBC<\/span> is reviewing salaries of its stars<\/a>, like millionaire public servant Jonathan Ross<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates<\/a> will be working out the details. O&O know a little about the BBC, as founder Mark Oliver<\/span> was the corporation\u2019s Head of Strategy from 1989 to 1995.<\/p>\n

In Oliver\u2019s day, of course, the BBC\u2019s Jonathan Ross figure was Noel Edmonds<\/span><\/a>, who raked in half a million a year for Saturday night schlocker, Noel\u2019s House Party<\/span><\/span><\/a>, and managed to keep his paws on various programme rights.<\/p>\n

But Mark would have been advising on strategy, not working out crappy deals with presenters! And doubtless today he has young MBAs to carry out his work for him.<\/p>\n

So will O&O look at BBC presenter salaries in the context of – say – UK public sector organizations like the National Health Service, or the judiciary, or the armed forces.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re holding your breath – stop now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talking to a telly presenter chum last night, we mused over the fact that you never hear broadcast execs bragging about how little they paid for talent. Instead, the sum handed over is somehow supposed to represent an \u201cindependent\u201d estimation of worth. Don\u2019t take the word of some hapless telly type reassuring you about X\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}