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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 17:54:15 GMT
Eddie Mair, award-winning presenter of the Radio 4 PM programme, has quit the BBC after 30 years, following moves to cut his £350,000 salary. One of the BBC’s most popular broadcasters, Mair, 52, announced his departure in typically wry style, joking that he would miss the smell of Director-General Tony Hall’s after shave. He is expected to confirm a move to speech station LBC. Despite the genial tone, Mair’s departure follows months of wrangling over moves to cut the presenter’s pay, which is in the £300-349,999 band. BBC bosses were frustrated after Mair was reluctant to accept the scale of reductions accepted by Huw Edwards, Nick Robinson, Jon Sopel, Andrew Marr and John Humphrys, in order to help close the corporation’s gender pay gap. Eddie Mair quits BBC after 30 years following pay cut move |
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Post by Miranda on Jul 1, 2018 18:14:23 GMT
HOW MUCH?! And he's bitching about taking a cut? PFFFT!
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Post by linseed on Jul 1, 2018 19:03:42 GMT
He is by no means the highest paid one, I think Chris Evans earns £2 million. But yes, you’re right, huge amount of money. I don’t listen to him so can’t give an opinion on his show, but he did call B Johnson a “nasty piece of work” I believe.
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Post by Miranda on Jul 1, 2018 19:09:40 GMT
I've called him that for free.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 19:32:09 GMT
He is by no means the highest paid one, I think Chris Evans earns £2 million. But yes, you’re right, huge amount of money. I don’t listen to him so can’t give an opinion on his show, but he did call B Johnson a “nasty piece of work” I believe. When he heard all the complaints about Chris Evans Piers Morgan tweeted this:
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Post by Malyndi on Jul 1, 2018 20:39:01 GMT
I've called him that for free. 
Will miss the old Edster, though I had no idea - until I read this thread - his reason for leaving. Makes him look rather a greedy, grasping so-and-so (and once more begs the question: why oh why does the Beeb pay its presenters such disgustingly high salaries anyway  )
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jul 2, 2018 12:53:22 GMT
I'm extremely sorry to hear this. He's one of my favourite presenters and can cut through politicians' waffle more effectively than anyone else. I'd have liked to see him take over Question Time now that David Dimbleby is finally retiring. I am sorry to hear the reason, I had thought better of him. I wonder if there is a back story we are not hearing.
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Anymore to come?
