"How Much Are YOU Paid Then?!" | Ex-BBC Producer CLASHES With David Bull Over Broadcaster Payments
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “committed” to the BBC and its TV licence fee.
The annual fee faced years of scrutiny under the Conservative government, with it being frozen for two years at £159 before it was increased at a lower rate than the corporation expected, bringing the charge to £169.50 in April.
Despite this, according to the BBC's annual report, the broadcaster lost around half a million licence fee payers year on year.
At the end of the 2023-24 financial year, there were 23.9 million TV licences in effect, a drop of 500,000 from the 24.4 million at the end of 2022-23.
David Bull clashes with ex-BBC producer John Mair over the decline of Brits paying the broadcaster's licence fee.
John says: "It's about time the right stopped their culture war against the BBC, you've lost it!"
David retorts: "It's not over if 500,000 people aren't paying!"
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What a typical BBC pratt!
When it comes to the BBC the only parts are the people who watch and pay.
He seems to think it's a privilege to pay to watch the bbc ..40k payrise ,despite being under investigation,and suspension , is Alice in Wonderland stuff...lve ditched my licence 6 months ago, should have done it much sooner....
Exactly they are all in cloud cuckoo land
This Guy ...... Absolute Numpty time and time again .... Bullseye every single time 😎
Tw🎩 more like
People like this older man is the reason why you should cancel your tv licence
Exactly, and I'm old too 😮
Hes on a huge bbc pension and he wants you to keep funding it ,😡
Agreed
@@cyberleaderandy1 spot on mate !
People like this older gentleman is the reason the bbc still exists. Once the boomers go the beeb is done . Thank god for Netflix ❤
Dump the BBC licence and be free.
I dumped it 4 years ago. It’s easy 😂
Half a million households cancelled their subscription to the BBC last year. Well done and thank you all.
Two years out of it now. I actually cannot stand listening to any BBC output. I don't even listen to Radio 4 in the car anymore - I just connect my phone up and continue listening to Talk TV or GB News on CZcams.
You can see where this is going. They will cancel the tv license then just bung it on your council tax or something you can't opt out of.
@Sasco160 The issue as I see it is that the BBC is to important to pushing the government agenda to let it fail.
They have a new letter now, ChilliJonCarne has done a video on it, it's hilarious, claiming to turn up at your address at any time of the day lol.
I cancelled mine a few months ago, I never watch the BBC so I dont want to pay for something I dont watch, most of it is crap anyway, that guy is talking crap
I wouldn't pay 1 penny to listen to Gary Lineker about anything
You couldn’t pay me to listen to him
@@TomTom-gs7wy no trouble is they make us pay shame shame shame
@@TomTom-gs7wy It's not easy growing up black😂
Except FOOTBALL but 75% less than he's getting now.
Racist.
The difference here is the BBC staff are paid with taxpayer money.
Licence payers money.
@@maninthestreet01The licence fee is a tax.
The government charge £169.50 to watch ANY live television. That is a tax. Then they give that tax money to the BBC.
I can’t believe that there is still a BBC
40 years ago, Johnny rotten called out Jimmy Savile on live television and the BBC defended Jimmy Savile and ostracized Johnny rotten
I’d happily still have a BBC if it focused on news and gold standard journalism and was a bit more pro British. The rest of it could easily be spun off and paid by voluntary subscription
And our now Prime Minister, was the one who got Saville off…… TWICE.
Same reason I didn't vote Labour
And now Huw Edwards is being charged for Child porn.
Why hasn't Lineker been arrested for his continuous hate speech??
Because it is one rule and another rule for the other seems to be how it works now sadly
I mean 1 rule for one
Can you give an example of this 'hate speech"?
Remember when the tories said they would stop the boats coming in at dover and Gary Lineker compared it to 1930s germany
OBVIOUS = He's being WELL PAID to sprout AN AGENDA 😮
Very simple.... DO NOT PAY FOR BBC LICENCE. End of argument.
If you want to watch live TV from ANY source (not just the BBC) you need a TV licence. Otherwise you could end up with fine of up to £1000.
And people have.
@@mikewilson8513or grow a backbone, ignore the letters and don’t answer the door when they come knocking
My nan tried to cancel her licence bc she's 80 and they decided she has to pay now..they sent a heavy bench to her door...she's fighting cancer, she just paid even though it's dishonest from them and it's difficult for her..the BBC and Labour disgust me
@mikewilson8513 Thank you for telling me.... As if you wouldn't look into the rules before cancelling the TV Licence. I haven't watched Live TV in years
@@Swansong321 they pray on the vulnerable and those who are too scared to just ignore them. Disgusting behavior, poor lady
Zoe Ball is awful....listeners DROPPED when she took over...😮😮😮
Now we’ve got the useless Mcguiness
Loved her Dad though he was an abosolute Legend.
@@oojimmyflip think of a number erc. Brilliant guy 😊
Ye but she's getting bird money.
I defunded the BBC in my house in 2018. 😂😂😂
Fiona 'aint no star!
I did in 2020
@@traceyrhoden9808 Hope you are not breaking the law then...
@@DrunkDelilahBreweryNon of your business is it.😅
@@DrunkDelilahBrewery no are you
@@traceyrhoden9808 Me too :)
What an entitled snob, many people will work all their lives, 40 years, and never earn a £1m.
To say these people deserve the pay they get is ridiculous. There are many people could do that job.
You don't need a particular set of skills to eat crisps.
The BBC have always stuck with the same old people paying them too much instead of giving new people a chance. Gary Lineker is the most boring presenter ever.
BBC is utter crap I cancelled my license on line easy
snap!
I got banned for 24 hrs last week for saying one word " CRAP " in a reply , be careful mate .
That's a bloody good reason not to pay the Vile BBC tax..🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
its free in the USA so way do we pay for it? you tell Americans about the license fee and they think its stupid.
How much is John Mair getting paid to defend the BBC?
Given his zealous reaction from the start, I'd first start by assuming; a lot.
Looking after his massive pension.
@@collier8931 spot on
If anyone was in any doubt as to the BBC's bias and patronising arrogance, they need only watch this clip. The contempt this old fart showed for the public is the very reason why they're losing licence payers in the tens of thousands.
I'd be more likely to ask what skeletons they are hiding for him with the history of the BBC.
That bloke is deplorable! 🏴
Yep, utterly clueless
Yes, & he has a funny notion of what constitutes a star!
Don’t care how much they are paid 😊I don’t have a license so I don’t fund them 😊
Why bother getting these people on. They are never going to agree so what's the point in wasting breath. He is the enemy
Yes, but it's fun watching them dig a hole.
Because they out themselves as idiots for everyone to see.
Old Fart is like a Nazi. His policy according to him. Should really just get HIM to pay for the corrupt BBC licence. Why ask me?
Yes but GB news is doing the right thing to remain a MSM. Must allow both sides it's called balance.
His job is to defend the BBC, that's what he gets paid for.
Gobble on, you could say.
The BBC is optional. This is a self made issue.
Unfortunately yes
"Talent costs money." TALENT? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am sorry, but what talent?
I think it's a code word for complicit
Old man panicking about his pension. Stop paying for rich people to get richer.
Does that include Nige?
Exactly 👍
@@LeftAndProudwe don’t pay for Nigel …. The BBC gets funded from people who pay their licence there’s a difference.
@carolegeorgina6114 u said "stop paying for rich people to get richer".
I asked if that Includes Nige.
Reform UK is a company, his supporters pay money which goes straight into his business account, and he gets richer.
@@LeftAndProudYes that does include "NIGE" , no one should be getting paid six figure sums to read anything regardless of who they are , stars are not worth a toss .
Paying £170 every year to watch the BBC is pure madness. I wouldn't watch it if you PAID me £170!
At least the Ex BBC producer admits the licence is a tax, and to advice the BBC to move its stars to BBC Studios to hide their salary is just shamefully deceitful.
Thats what clarkson, May and Hammond Did.
We should stop paying the BBC
Do it then!! I have, a long time ago.
We cancelled ours years ago!!
I'm happy not to watch the BBC but I still want to watch live TV so I still have to have a licence
I have
Mines gone
That is guest is full of B/S.
The “culture war against the BBC” is NOT over! The licence fee must go! 😡
My worry is that keir starmer will make it worse post 2027
We don't need the license to be decriminalised. Just stop paying for it. The more that stop, the quicker they'll be forced to go private. It's literally in our hands.
You want more private broadcasting? Are you hoping to advertise products and services?
Spot on 👍
@@LeftAndProudyou want more of our hard earned money going to the stuck up snobs.
@carolegeorgina6114 No. If it goes private, will my money not go to more stuck up snobs?
@@LeftAndProud The BBC are the most corrupt organisation in the world if you want to fund them fine,I don’t pay their thieving hands especially for the likes of Lineker…..
I'm about to notify the BBC that I no longer require a licence. I haven't watched anything on live tv for over one year now and cannot see the point of paying for nothing. It makes sense to me.
well done , at least someone has a backbone, instead of complaining and doing sbsolutely nothing about it.
Don't pay any more👍
Don't watch, Don't listen, Don't pay
I cancelled back in 2016 and I've never regretted it for a single second.
No way is Lineker worth 1.3£M of licence payers money! Zoe Ball on a £million even more bloody ridiculous! Every-one should rebel and refuse to pay the licence fee. Make the BBC commercial!
Parts of the BBC will always be funded by tax payers even if the licence fee is abolished. Governments will use that money to keep World Service and news operations running. They haven't accepted we are a minor power now and don't need to fight the global news war. We are a laughing stock since Brexit we just need to get over it.
I don't have a TV, nor watch bbciplayer, so don't have to pay licence fee. I also don't miss it one little bit!
Everyone should stop paying the fee. What will they do then. I haven't watched bbc tv for 8 years and i miss nothing. The programmes are crap
Totally agree.
Paying the TV Licence fee is like paying Waitrose to shop in asda, Morrisons, Tesco, or any other supermarket.
Definitely Cancel your TV direct debit.
The guest wants to hide what stars are paid from the public who are paying for them? That sounds like trying to hide wrong doing to me.
Who pays the BBC? Not us
The argument is we need to pay our stars.. 💩💩💩. Complete joke.
The BBC is just one big joke now
*Typical BBC employee..* does not want transparency on how tax payers money is being spent/wasted 😑
Simply cancel your Direct Debits, don't waste your time contacting the BBC to 'declare no licence needed' as you are not legally obliged to inform/talk to anyone at the BBC/TVL or fill in any forms (it just helps BBC admin which they use to delay you). If you do fill out their forms or talk to them they have one purpose - to be so vague and misleading that they make you doubt your legal right to cancel.
Then sit back and read with amusement the ever desperate monthly letters as they behave like an unhinged clingy ex! - they'll send fake threats of 'Visit Authorised', 'under investigation' and 'last chance to get licensed' to scare you into buying a licence you don't require - just ignore/bin these comical, misleading begging letters from an organisation that still thinks its the 1950's and it has some sort of legal authority. Utter shame on the UK Government for allowing the BBC an exemption to send harassing mail to those obeying the law (ask your MP why they allow it!).
Join the half million people a year now reaching their lightbulb moment and cancelling!
In the very unlikely event a salesman visits DO NOT talk to them - even to give your name, just say 'not interested' and close the door to these commission based sales people who are probably ex traffic wardens - they have no legal rights/powers whatsoever despite what they may tell you/imply with their flashy lanyard! Just watch catch-up services (who watches live now anyway?) and no iPlayer (again, no loss as it's just preachy dross) and bingo, you saved yourself £169 every year - it is SO easy! Remember if you listen to Radio (by anyone, even the BBC!) then no licence needed.
The easiest way, which I did, is cancel your Direct debit. Then inform TV Licencing that they have NO "presumed Legal Right of Entry" to your property. Do this in writing, and, as I did, copy your MP into this. They can no longer even step onto your garden path without breaking the law themselves and they know this. I received a letter back from them confirming that they were aware I had revoked the "Presumed Right of Entry" and they would not contact me for 2 years. And then only to ask if my position has changed. I also received a letter from my MP to confirm that he had also written to TV Licensing and was aware of the position, telling me that if I did have any further issues with them (TV Licencing) I could contact him and he would take the matter up for me. I've now had something like 4 years of peace and quiet with NO contact from TV Licencing at all......
I would also suggest that you check out the BAREBACK BARRISTER CHANNEL on You Tube, as he gives the correct legal position you can follow - which I did.....
Thank you for that as I was about to inform them. They can come and check all they want but I never watch live TV or use the iPlayer.
I didn't realise that about the radio. Thank you again.
Gracious, you make it sound so complicated! I haven't had a licence since about 2012. All done online. Every couple of years or so I get an email asking me if I still don't need a licence. I've never had any threatening sounding letters. They must be getting heavy-handed because so many people are cancelling but I'm sure they'll leave you alone after a while!
@@deja-view1017 I think you're right. They are somewhat heavy handed (with people they feel they can be) but by going down the legal route I know that I am completely covered against even receiving mail from them. Anyone like yourself, who has just opted out, could quite suddenly be the recipient of mail, phone calls and personal visits. I simply followed the advice of the Barrister (Daniel Shensmith) who runs the Bareback Barrister You Tube channel.
I want to know if they are paying the CORRECT taxes,no bloody loop holes, the government should get HMRC to deeply investigate ,
If they were a private company, they be in administration in weeks, AND THEY ALL KNOW IT
The ex-BBC producer seems to have done alright for himself from his former employer.
Lovely house and a nice big fat pension courtesy of the licence fee payers.
BTW I don't care how much they pay their staff I stopped paying the TV tax years ago.
Receive all the letters and threats from TV licencing, I just ignore them and file them in the recycle bin.
Bbc ethics are appalling and have been for years
The BBC has 21k employees. ITV has 7000. Do the maths.
I don’t like the BBC but you probably need to go back to school and retake maths classes. The BBC has a lot more output than itv. It funds LDR reporters, runs radio stations, international services etc etc etc etc. Whether they should with our money is another matter but you’re comparing apples to oranges.
Do you remember the Daily Mail expose on taxi fares around London within the Beeb.
It's on record!
@@stevenham1937 Yes, it certainly has more useless content than other channels.
Look how many they sent to Glastonbury.
33 Billion pounds in license fees and what do you get sod all. goverment will always defend it as they want the tax money.
the ex bbc producer is an ejit did he come on for free?
when i reached 75 i was told i had a free licence at 76 they said no now you have to pay, i didn't pay as i use you tube most of the time, now i am 80 i see they say I'm a guest if i use it, i never ever watch any main media news channels full of BS
Lineker is absolutely crap!
I haven't had a TV licence for over 10 years!
BBC Covered Savilles misdoings for years and ruined lives. Starmer failed in his prosecution duties against Saville....shows where all connections are!
Talent cost money what talent .Wonder how much the BBC pay this guy for defending them...😂
Why on earth should we pay these people. We are forced to do so by law!!
Don't watch . Don't pay.
You are not forced to but coerced into thinking that you need to, huge difference.
How many people got sent to prison for non payment of the rediculous TV licence that wouldn't pay for 10 seconds of Linekers pay
if the bbc was a subscription service, no-one would sign up to it
Never watch Strictly either.
This, Bumbling, guest, is a prime example why the BBC is as poor as it is.
Not a single clue what's going on outside his front door
I love the statement that this conversation is over and been resolved as a Prime Minister with the support of just 1 in 5 people says it is. How about a referendum on the Licence Fee? It could be run at the same time as the leaving the ECHR referendum Nigel Farage has just suggested
How is it a culture war? There is no possible excuse for the public to be forced to fund this organisation.
Because the left say it's biased to the right and the right say it's biased to the left. The adults understand how to appreciate all view points.
that is the worse response in defence of the BBC I think anyone could come up with, license fee needs to end
There is no basis to his argument; Talk Radio is paid for via commercial revenue, as is ITV.
He is arrogant and self entitled.
Who funds BBC Studios ? The best part about Gary Lineker was when he (and his minions) were not on as I didn't have to fast forward through the incessant BS between football highlights!
You prefer adverts in between live football?
BBC studios is a seperate comercxial entity that using funding raised by showiung adverts on freeview channels owned by the BBC and sales of TV programmes produced by the BBC worldwide along with DVD's and box sets, programmes we have already paid for by paying the license fee over many years, its a huge scam on the people who paid for it.
There is nothing on the BBC that is worth wasting my time watching. I have stopped my licence.
It takes around 8,000 TV licence fees to pay Lineker each year - basically an entire town have to pay his wages!
That's an interesting fact!
Makes his wage feel even more absurd when thought about like that.
Disgusting. Cancel licence fee, stop funding their clowns!
Its all the woke that gets me!
if the BBC is taking a license fee from the public, then it’s so called stars’ salaries should be made public. Simples.
The BBC are not taking anything. The government sets the licence fee. Bit like road tax i suppose.
I think the plum was stuck in his mouth because he was unable to talk properly. None of them deserve our tax pounds and certainly not a licence fee without us having a say on salaries
I am so glad I don't pay the BBC. Nothing to watch anyway.
TAXPAYERS FFS...
Bbc licence should be a choice
"Don't you want it to be popular"..... Hell NO!!
What an extraordinary reaction by this ex BBC Producer to the annual listing of the top salaries paid to various people. So, to be absolutely clear, the BBC is a public service broadcaster, paid for through a licence fee and funded by the general public. And he thinks its a good idea to not publish their salaries and hide them away from us....the people who bloody pay them !!!!
Now this might be almost acceptable in a privately owned and funded company.....although I have a suspicion that the shareholders would want this information.....but it is definitely not acceptable for a publicly owned entity. What planet are these clowns on . I do despair !
I live in New Zealand now. Just a few reasons why the Brits will put up with anything. Tv nz has no licences fee. Proportional voting. No illegal immigration. No cameras absolutely everywhere. Only partial net zero. No death duties. Where is common sense at times when it comes to fairness in society.
I've never watched a single programme made by TV NZ.
42 yrs paid in,,, 2 years now... No bbc tax for me... CZcams much better
Stopped paying licence fee few years ago !! And will never pay it again!! Its not the BBC paying these self important people !!! Its YOU AND ME !!!!!
They earn their money lying for the establishment and, knowing what is awaiting for them in the hereafter, are worth every penny of viewer's money.
Congrats to Gary Lineker, the guy who destroyed my love of football, and was paid £1m by the BBC to do so.
It's not the right that started it mate, wake up.
Lineker also coins it from TNT (old BT) Sport. This old guy also goes on about paying top dollar if you want top talent. Really ? Lineker, Zoe Ball, Huw Edwards, talent ? Give us a break !!!! 😡
People!!! Time to switch off your TV!! Stop paying your licence!! Get rid of your TV!!! Life goes on anyway!!!
BBC is now absolutely WORTHLESS. Will not be paying my next license.
cancel now and youll get a refund cheque for the rest of the year.
Didn't viewing figures go up when Lineker wasn't there
The cheek of this man. Don't tell people the salaries of bbc staff. We pay for them ffs. STOP PAYING THE BBC LICENCE FEE.
Just stop paying for the license. If they come to your door asking do you watch television say you watch CZcams on your phone for news and drama and repeats. You don’t have to let them in to your home.
John Mair. Not knowingly right on anything. What a ding a ling.
WHAT A PLONKER !!!!!
UK wasted £450bn on Covid 19.
What the fuck is that? Got to do with the BBC?
@@jandavies4400
BBC enjoyed promoting the Covid 19 narrative to you & your family. Remember?
Indeed the Beeb was very flexible in what it considered to be the truth during covid.
@@stevewilcock4767
Indeed another young, female, ex BBC presenter, in her early forties sadly died just this week.
Misinformation and wrong the government spent 450 billion on furlough saving millions of jobs and homes and saving hundreds of thousands of businesses giving each one £10,000 no other country in the world did that you all have very short memories 😂
Why does the right wing wage a culture war against the BBC, he ought to ask himself that. It's because people don't want to pay for a left wing mouth piece. Tories, 12 years of dithering on the licence fee, it took Starmer one week to make reassurances around the BBC.... tells you everything you need to know.
Labour need the income taxes on 33 billion pounds in license fees. of course they wont cancel it. are people daft or just plain stupid?
@@oojimmyflip Corporations don't pay income tax, they pay tax on profits, the BBC is run as a non profit. It is also state owned. There is no VAT on the licence fee. So effectively would contribute zero to public purse directly, providing they spend all the money coming in. It could actually contribute more if it was a private entity with a subscription model. If your talking about the income tax of employees they could continue to work for the BBC as a private company, or find work elsewhere (they're very smart people). Also your 33b figure is out by a factor of 10.
Apparently up until. the 90's prospective employees to. the BBC were vetted by the security services, I don't think it's a coincidence that standards dropped once this practice ended
i havent paid the licence in years
If it was a private company it could be justified.
TV licence fee. should be stoped asap
Nobody at the BBC is worth more than £100,000 a year. Cap their salaries.
I don't pay the licence tax but I still watch TV, catch me if you can
If the BBC produces such great output why did 1/2 million cancel their licence fee last year?
Don't pay the licence.
Where on earth did they get this bloke from , at first me was saying the license fee argument is settled then a few mins later he is saying it needs to be looked at !
ChilliJonCarne must be laughing his head off.
Like to see what he has got to say about this
I cancelled my licence over a decade ago. I believe it's wrong for people to be forced to pay the BBC for the right to watch non-BBC live TV.
Why does anyone watch match of the day on BBC? sky sports put the highlights on youtube hours before the BBC and you don't have to listen to Gary and friends drone on with "oh he should have done better their"
Sod what they are paid ! Why should we pay the BBC to watch all other live channels.