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Financial Statements 2014/15

The Full financial statements for 2014/15 are now out if anyone fancies updating the article.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/pdf/2014-15/BBC-FS-2015.pdf

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The owner of BBC

The owner of BBC has been changed to British public, while HS Government was listed as its owner before(https://web.archive.org/web/20170227222600/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC)。I did a little research and found following statement from The GOV.UK website:

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a British public service broadcaster. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

BBC is a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bbc

And in the wiki article of Department for Culture, Media and Sport(DCMS), it also clearly lists that the BBC is sponsored by DCMS(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_Culture,_Media_and_Sport#Public_broadcasting_authorities) And The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is a department of the United Kingdom government(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_Culture,_Media_and_Sport)

So I suggest these facts should be taken into consideration, when the modification of the owner of BBC is to be made. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.208.73.162 (talk) 08:44, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Opening sentence - funding

Do we need a partial and potentially misleading phrase like "funded by the British government" in the opening sentence of the article - like in this addition? I think not. Comments? Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:23, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Payroles

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/chris-evans-top-bbc-earner-as-pay-list-reveals-gender-gap/ar-AAoqNGR?li=BBoPWjQ

Chris Evans £2m last year.

Graham Norton £900,000.

Gary Lineker £1.75m.

Claudia Winkleman £500,000.

Alex Jones earning over £400,000.

Fiona Bruce earns between £350,000 and £400,000.

Andrew Marr, Stephen Nolan from BBC Northern Ireland, Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell, Steve Wright, and much less

Jeremy Vine £750,000.

John Humphrys £600,000.

Kirsty Wark, Sophie Raworth, Victoria Derbyshire, Mishal Husain and Martha Kearney all appear to earn less than male presenters doing similar jobs and with similar experience.

Sue Barker earned just just £300,000

Alan Shearer collected more than £400,000

Derek Thompson, who plays Charlie in Casualty, gets between £350,000 and £400,000

Peter Capaldi £200,000 to £250,000 bracket (the same as Adam Woodyatt - EastEnders' Ian Beale).

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/chris-evans-top-bbc-earner-as-pay-list-reveals-gender-gap/ar-AAoqNGR?li=BBoPWjQ

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