Being paid £1.75m for part-time work at the BBC whilst earning shedloads more for advertising crisps and presenting a few programmes at BT Sport, Gary Lineker is probably not best placed to voice opinions about the "broadcaster`s fundamental problem" (Lineker: make BBC licence fee voluntary, 28/01/20). In fact, with the BBC preparing to announce cuts "to reduce costs by millions of pounds", it is being given a wonderful opportunity to prove the worth of its justification for paying such huge salaries (BBC cuts; Newsnight and World at One among targets, 25/01/20). If some presenters are to be "asked to work across programmes and channels", others will inevitably find themselves surplus to requirements, so it will be interesting to see if they are indeed snapped up by rival broadcasters. The claim that such "talent" had to be paid salaries ten times or more the national average for fear of defections to the likes of commercial radio, Sky and ITV can now be put to the test (BBC is paying too much for talent it can afford to lose, 24/07/17).
Indeed, free transfers would in many cases prove most welcome, creating job opportunities for young presenters with gender-equal starting salaries of a mere £100,00!
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