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[2] For a public-sector comparison, the UK prime minister is entitled to a salary of £167,391 [3] [4] and the Cabinet Secretary is entitled to a salary of £200,000 to £204,999. [5] The table below outlines financial data - CEO salaries and turnover figures - where available, of a selection of major charities in the United Kingdom, by capital.
Following the launch of BBC Store [permanent dead link ], a service that offers UK residents the opportunity to purchase, stream and download BBC programmes, the UK's physical and online shop closed Archived 16 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine on 29 March 2016. However, the online shop in the US and Canada is still fully operating.
The website is funded by the Licence fee, but uses GeoIP technology, allowing advertisements to be carried on the site when viewed outside of the UK. [184] The BBC claims the site to be "Europe's most popular content-based site" [185] and states that 13.2 million people in the UK visit the site's more than two million pages each day. [186]
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
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Tony Hall, the son of a bank manager, was born in Birkenhead, Wirral, in 1951. [10] He was educated at two direct grant schools (now independent), King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Birkenhead School, before going to Keble College, Oxford, [11] [12] where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating with an MA degree.
In July 2017, in response to a demand from the UK government as a condition of its new royal charter, the BBC published a list of all employees who earned more than £150,000. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ a ] Of the 96 BBC employees making over this threshold, 62 were men and 34 were women, and of the seven highest earners, all were men.
Salary £160,000 The Chair of the BBC , referred to as Chairman when the incumbent is male and Chairwoman when female, is the head of the BBC Board , responsible for maintaining the independence of the BBC and overseeing the functioning of the BBC to fulfil its mission.