It’s easy to rag on long-serving presenters perhaps unfairly, but Steve Wright is surely past his Best Before date.
Radio 2 is the station for listeners who are past their best before date. 🙂
One of the problems with the BBC being forced to publish their presenter / stars / señor staff wages is theirs no context. Theres no obligation on other broadcasters and media outlets to do the same thing so you don’t know how the rate they are paid compares to other comparable positions and you don’t know what other broadcasters have bid. Its like complaining about the price of milk in Tesco without knowing what it costs in Asda.
Steve Wright would not command the audience he has on another station. No way. Steve Wright can GTF
The thing is – we’ve no idea. He may not be able to command the same audience on another station but he could bring enough of an audience for it to matter to them. It might not be the size of audience, just the right kind of audience – see the deal Chris Moyles got.
When there was the big fuss about the money the BBC used to pay Jonathan Ross back in the day – stirred up mainly by the Murdock press – two contextual facts were absent from the story.
One was not so much the viewing figures as the proportion of audience…. the vast majority of TV’s that were switched on when his show was on were tuned to BBC1, it wasn’t a question of whether the audience was large or small – it was almost all of the audience share. Hundreds of other channels (and their advertisers) and nobody was watching them when his show was on.
The other was…. the BBC were not the highest bidder. Sky – who don’t need to publish their presenters and producer wages- had offered quite a lot more and he’d turned them down. So their story was that he was being paid to much while in fact he was being paid less than they thought he was worth.
