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    Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Apparently, the BBC boss that's just quit is to receive a £450,000 payoff, a year's salary, as part of a "consensual" agreement to leave. And that after just 54 days in the job, during which the Savile affair blew up in his face, and the decision to broadcast the McAlpine story was made, directly during his tenure.

    As the story comes out, it seems that his contract only entitles him to 6 months pay in lieu of notice.

    So why has the BBC Trust approved double that, for a DG "resigning" over a scandal, and especially for someone that's been in the job about 10 minutes and probably hasn't yet even found the executive loo?

    Moreover, we have yet to have the results of the various inquiries into the Savile débâcle, so we don't know what culpability, if any, Entwistle has in all that.

    And his public performance since taking the job has been frankly lamentable. Given the latest Newsnight farce, it doesn't exactly appear to give a ringing endorsement of his grip on the management job either.

    So ..... why the pay-off?

    If he's not up to the job, he should have been fired, not allowed a cosy pay-off.

    If he is up to the job, he should have stayed and done it, not taken a cowardly pay-off to cut and run.

    The ethos of the BBC for paying ludicrous sums to senior executives who seem, by their public actions, to be wholly unfit for the job, stinks more than that of greedy bankers. At least they don't expect licence-fee payers to pick up the tab.

    And as for the BBC "Trust" that thought this was acceptable in the current climate, what planet are you on?

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    I had assumed it was the contractually required figure.

    Given that it's not, the question must be what was part of this "consensual" agreement. Perhaps a requirement not to comment on anything Saville related? Or a cover-up over another incident?
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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Refuse to pay the licence..... If he signed up to a contract, then if HE opts out doesnt He owe THEM money ?

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    I don't know about the legality, but it's a bit galling for the thousands of disabled people in the country who're being fought tooth and nail by the government for 1/100th that amount on the basis that the country can't afford it.

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Another corporate coverup and the public pays for it.

    Wonder if i would get the same deal if i was usless at my job?
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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    So did they offer him this deal in exchange for a quiet resignation?

    I'm in favour thou of massively downsizing the BBC, making it focus on programming that is informative and original, rather than have it competiting with the likes of ITV. Why do we need a license payer funded model to produce strictly come dancing ffs.
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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    I think he was well worth the £8300 a day he has got from this
    excluding the salary he got for those 54 days
    and the fact that 54 days included weekends so was actually only 40days (so was really over £11,000 per day)
    and the pension (I heard £1m earlier today?)
    and the fact he probably had to leave or be strung up
    and the fact he helped spearhead factual, totally 100% accurate programming.

    I just don't see the problem....








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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob_B View Post
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    and the pension (I heard £1m earlier today?)....
    According to the figures I saw, about £1.3m including this £450k, so approx £850k without, would be the pension figure.

    However .... he has been at the BBC for a long time. I think I saw 23 years mentioned somewhere, in a progression of senior roles. His pension pot would, therefore, reflect contributions not just by the BBC but, presumably, by him from his salary.

    I don't think we can infer much, therefore, about the pension. He's presumably earned that, by length of service and contributions made.

    The £450k for a couple of months work, and lieu of notice, is entirely another matter.

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    So did they offer him this deal in exchange for a quiet resignation?
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    Don't know, but that was certainly my assumption of what likely happened.

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    So did they offer him this deal in exchange for a quiet resignation?
    that's what i think. he's just the scapegoat and probably had no blame in what happened, thus a higher amount to keep his mouth shut. it might explain his reactions afterwards, such as no apology

    thing is, as he wasn't in post for long, he could have stayed there with the excuse that he was just in the door so couldn't be responsible for anything

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    If he was fired, it would be 12 months notice or pay in lieu of notice. This seems to be to be an effective firing.

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    He will pay over half of that sum in tax and NI contributions. Maybe compensation for the savaging he got at the hands of John Humphries on Saturday's 'Today' programme. I almost felt sorry for him.
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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    He will pay over half of that sum in tax and NI contributions. Maybe compensation for the savaging he got at the hands of John Humphries on Saturday's 'Today' programme. I almost felt sorry for him.
    Hmmm. I volunteer for next week's 40 minutes of pointed questions. £450,000 to be deposited in my bank account.

    In fact, at that rate, I'll do it every week. I would say daily, but I'd hate to be seen as greedy.

    On a more serious note, getting challenged, publicly, is part of the job description if you take a job like BBC DG. If you can't stand, or cope with, the heat, stay the hell out of the kitchen.

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    On a more serious note, getting challenged, publicly, is part of the job description if you take a job like BBC DG. If you can't stand, or cope with, the heat, stay the hell out of the kitchen.
    Agreed, but put yourself in this guy's shoes, you spend 23 years at the BBC (starting in 1989 as a trainee) building up your career to eventually get appointed as the Director General of the BBC, probably the most prestigious appointment in the entire Industry. We are talking a career pinnacle position at the top of a globally recognised brand, the person who makes the decisions that shape the direction of the organisation, a position usually held for at least 5 years. Then a month in the new job the whole Jimmy Saville saga explodes, everyone in your organisation is branded "SCUM" by the press and 54 days into the new appointment you have to step down, not because of a decision you made, but because of content you have not seen or been made aware of prior to broadcast, purely because the buck stops with you. After 23 years of working your way up in an organisation like the BBC i'm sure you get a good list of changes that can be made to make things better, and to get given the opportunity to put those ideas into action and change things for the better, but have it snatched away before you've even had chance to finish telling anyone about the plans you want to action ?

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    He will pay over half of that sum in tax and NI contributions. Maybe compensation for the savaging he got at the hands of John Humphries on Saturday's 'Today' programme. I almost felt sorry for him.
    actually he wont if paid via PAYE, and if he uses the jimmy carr system he'll pay a lot less. the exact amount will depend on how it's paid. he could be on garden leave, or if paid at once the compensation for loss of office rules will apply

    http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim02100.htm

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    Re: Outgoing BBC boss to get £450,000 payoff

    Before anyone feels too sorry for him not being given a chance can I remind you that he was director of BBC Vision before his appointment to DG. What does this mysterious director of vision have responsibility for? "The Director, BBC Vision is responsible for BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC One HD, BBC HD and BBC Films. He also oversees Vision Productions and has editorial oversight for UKTV". Basically director of television, responsible for production and scheduling, during which time he produced and scheduled all those sickly sweet Jimmy Saville tributes, but didn't schedule that one not so sweet program about him. That's why he resigned and got the payoff, they wanted him gone because people were starting to make that link and the brown clouds were gathering.

    Funnily enough I'm sure this was just after Ian Hislop pointed this out on television that he went.

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