Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
Please explain (genuine request)
No problem, presenters as other people of similar ilk are paid according to what the market will pay them, Lineker could get equal or indeed much more if he went to another broadcaster. The market isn't rigged as to an extent it is with Senior executives who all benchmark each others pay and perpetuate the levels of pay which are not justified, demonstrated by the fact that Executive pay is now 344 times that of an "ordinary worker, in 1965 it was 21 times.

One can argue about how such and such a presenter got the gig in the first place, though being a good presenter is not easy so jobs for the "boys or girls" only takes one so far, but the salary is determined by what the broadcast media will pay. The BBC especially struggles against commercial media because it has a limit on payments, indeed many of its stars over the years have "jumped ship" to commercial media becuase of the higher payments they can make.