KT Dodge

It seems that it is not the poor management, lack of good programmes or fresh ideas that lay at the root of the current BBC crisis and prospective staff cuts but the fact that they pay certain ’stars’ far too much money, i.e. Jonathan Ross who is reported to be on an 18 million pound contract. Now I say good luck to Jonathan Ross if he can squeeze that amount of money out of the BBC. Every performer knows that due to the instability of the ‘acting profession’ you make hay while the sun shines - whether it impacts on a licence fee or not and I am sure that he has been offered more money than that to defect to other commerical stations. The BBC just needs to start making good unbiased entertaining programmes that people want to watch. Then maybe there will not be such an outcry each year when the cost of the TV licence fee has gone up whether we like it or not.