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BBC Marred by salary dispute

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

February 23, 2011 | 2 min read

ITV’s political editor, Tom Bradby, has kicked off another round of criticism of BBC frivolity after questioning why one of its news presenters, Andrew Marr, was being paid anywhere up to £600k.

Marr’s remuneration was previously outed after the presenters wageslip was accidentally deposited in a colleague’s pigeon hole, it showed the presenter accrued net pay of £27k in the month covered.

Via Twitter Bradby wrote: "I like him [Marr] a lot, think he words hard and is very smart, but £600,000? Seems a lot. No one in ITV News is paid anything like this, so where is the market for all these BBC figures being paid such vast sums? I mean, who else will employ them at that level?"

Bradby went on to accuse the public service broadcaster of operating an “internal market” where presenters measured themselves against each other rather than the commercial market.

A BBC Trust spokesman responded by saying: "Salaries of individual presenters are entirely a matter for the BBC executive, although the trust has been clear that the BBC should look to reduce its overall talent spend, with a particular focus on the highest earners. The BBC has been responding to that."

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