BBC buys more copies of the Mail on Sunday than ANY other end-of-week paper, figures reveal
The Mail on Sunday’s reputation for setting the national agenda –politically and on social issues – has made us the must-read weekend newspaper for BBC […]
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Zoe Ball’s £1MILLION pay rise: Radio 2 presenter becomes BBC’s highest paid female star after salary rises to £1.36million (but still shy of Gary Lineker’s £1.75m) – as annual staff bill soars 3.5% to £1.5bn
Gary Lineker takes £400,000 pay cut and promises to behave himself on Twitter as he signs new five-year BBC deal – but he’ll STILL be […]
BBC DJ Tommy Vance in hookers-for-airplay claim
Radio 1 icon accused of plugging records in exchange for prostitutes EX-DISC jockey Tommy Vance was dubbed “king of the orgies” in a 1970s BBC […]
Dozens jailed in England & Wales for TV Licence ‘evasion’… while the Scots get off with a fine
TV LICENCE dodgers in England & Wales are being locked up by the courts whilst those in Scotland get away with a slap on the […]
BBC blows £200,000 a WEEK on hotels for staff because they can due to the BBC TV Licence!
THE BBC spent nearly £200,000 a week on hotels last year. Sending highly paid presenters and production crews to cover events such as Glastonbury music […]
BBC wastes your cash as staff in £10million redundancy pay-off are rehired!
THE BBC has paid out more than £10million in redundancy to staff it has gone on to re-employ. Hundreds of well-paid executives have had pay-offs […]
Why does the BBC waste your money on so many weather forecasters?
……………One forecast last week – and a dozen different faces across the country Am I the only person to find it immensely irritating that every […]
Nearly half a million iPlayer users avoid paying licence fee: £145.50 saved by declaring they do not watch live shows
Nearly half a million people avoided buying a BBC television licence last year because of a loophole the BBC hoped would create a BBC Internet […]
BBC’s middle management has ballooned by 14 per cent despite corporation’s boasts that it has cut back on top brass
Middle management at the BBC has increased despite the corporation promising to cut back. The corporation has said it cut back on senior management but […]
Cost of BBC boss’s £1000 cosy dinners with politicians
Days after it emerged that senior BBC boss James Purnell has secretly hired an employee from the consultants Deloitte as his chief adviser, I can […]
BBC wastes money as webcams show host Victoria Derbyshire is not in Salford
RADIO 5 Live host Victoria Derbyshire might sound as though she’s broadcasting from the BBC’s £1billion MediaCity in Salford but the webcams tell a different […]
Not this again! 61% of our TV programmes are repeats, BBC chiefs admit
Repeats make up 61 per cent of shows on BBC TV, the Corporation admitted last night. Almost half of programming on BBC2 is old content, […]
Champagne Socialists: BBC splashes out £435,000 on alcohol over five years (despite the fact it has been told to axe 2,000 jobs)
The BBC has splashed out a staggering £435,000 on alcohol in the past five years – frittering away licence-payers’ cash on more than 41,000 bottles […]