Chris Moyles has not been paid!

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If I gobbed off about being paid late at work they would probably give me the boot.

I know people who are owed thousands by the firm I'm employed by. They've been fighting with the unions for 4 years and will probably be on strike sometime this year as a result.

With the BBC I'm quite suprised they're allowed to pay that much public money to a presenter. He's not even on a high profile tv program, just a radio station. If they paid him £50-90k I'd understand... but £650k. Thats a joke. I read that Brucie was getting £70k for Strictly, and even took a pay cut to help the BBC.

Moyles aint no Brucie. He deserves no bonus.

 

[potsy]

Maybe Jonathon Ross could lend him a few quid to keep him going

 

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Maybe Jonathon Ross could lend him a few quid to keep him going

IIRC Ross also took a paycut too. For his radio show he was on a fair bit less than Moyles... but as an overall package (Radio, the chat show and Film) I think he got £4m out of them.

 

[stevie_b]

I know people who are owed thousands by the firm I'm employed by. They've been fighting with the unions for 4 years and will probably be on strike sometime this year as a result.

With the BBC I'm quite suprised they're allowed to pay that much public money to a presenter. He's not even on a high profile tv program, just a radio station. If they paid him £50-90k I'd understand... but £650k. Thats a joke. I read that Brucie was getting £70k for Strictly, and even took a pay cut to help the BBC.

Moyles aint no Brucie. He deserves no bonus.

Just a radio station? Chris Moyles gets 7 million listeners (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6895245.ece): OK, the figures are a year out of date as I couldn't find up-to-date figures. The RAJAR website wouldn't show me individual DJ figures without subscribing to it. Strictly Come Dancing a couple of weeks ago on Saturday (http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyTopProgrammesOverview) got 7.5 million viewers. So, the figures are pretty close to each other, within 10% of each other.

Strictly goes out once a week for, what, 15-20 episodes per series? Moyles' show is 5 days a week, for about 48 weeks a year. So Brucie's £70k per Strictly series is probably more pro-rata than Moyles' £500k a year (he also took a pay cut: it was £650k the previous year).

 

[Headgardener]

£650k for talking tripe! I could do that. Better that the just over £13k I earn as a hospital porter.

 

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Just a radio station? Chris Moyles gets 7 million listeners (http://entertainment...icle6895245.ece): OK, the figures are a year out of date as I couldn't find up-to-date figures. The RAJAR website wouldn't show me individual DJ figures without subscribing to it. Strictly Come Dancing a couple of weeks ago on Saturday (http://www.barb.co.u...grammesOverview) got 7.5 million viewers. So, the figures are pretty close to each other, within 10% of each other.

Strictly goes out once a week for, what, 15-20 episodes per series? Moyles' show is 5 days a week, for about 48 weeks a year. So Brucie's £70k per Strictly series is probably more pro-rata than Moyles' £500k a year (he also took a pay cut: it was £650k the previous year).

I think some people earn the money through respect earned over the years. Moyles still doesnt strike me as a man who is very respectful of a) his audience or b) his employer. Last series of Strictly was a sat and sunday run so 2 days iirc. The BBC is a public service really so they should think more publically minded and not award this kind of pay - then it can be reinvested in decent programming.

 

[Arch]

£650k for talking tripe! I could do that. Better that the just over £13k I earn as a hospital porter.

Ok then. Get yourself on hospital radio as a volunteer (which I think is how a lot of DJs started in the past), prove yourself popular enough, and get spotted. If it's that easy, you should be sorted by next year.

I don't listen to radio 1, or like Moyles all that much - my knowledge of him is limited. But anyone who has to ask "How do you get discovered, why aren't I doing that?" probably hasn't got the persistance, will and chutzpah to do it.

 

[biggs682]

shame

 

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Ok then. Get yourself on hospital radio as a volunteer (which I think is how a lot of DJs started in the past), prove yourself popular enough, and get spotted. If it's that easy, you should be sorted by next year.

I don't listen to radio 1, or like Moyles all that much - my knowledge of him is limited. But anyone who has to ask "How do you get discovered, why aren't I doing that?" probably hasn't got the persistance, will and chutzpah to do it.

Hospital radio has never been the way to do it. Not even patients listen to it.

People start by getting menial jobs around the stations and broadcasting firms from what I've read. Some send in demos and videos to companies. IIRC Ricky Gervais sent a demo tape to XFM.

 

[Ghost Donkey]

Hospital radio has never been the way to do it. Not even patients listen to it.

People start by getting menial jobs around the stations and broadcasting firms from what I've read. Some send in demos and videos to companies. IIRC Ricky Gervais sent a demo tape to XFM.

I've heard one/some of the radio 1 DJs harping on about hospital radio days with a few embarassing old clips played. Most start on local radio and demos and show reels are a popular wa of trying to get in. Moyles was on PulseFM in Bradford along with Hadrian Green who went on to be Sandy Beach (!?) at a later stage. Someone I went to school with still works at that station.

Not sure about the menial jobs point. I've worked for a broadcaster and don't know anyone who came in as a researcher, runner or technical staff member who went on to present. Most did go on to better jobs in the same field but not as presenters. Saying that I only worked for one broadcaster so can't speak for everyone .

 

[hackbike 666]

It's easy to get sucked in by the press as usual which doesn't really paint the true picture of what's happened here.So I have tried to refrain from slagging the bloke off as I don't know the full story.I don't listen or have never listened to him.Doubt if I could do as good a job as him if he has so many listeners...

 

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I've heard one/some of the radio 1 DJs harping on about hospital radio days with a few embarassing old clips played. Most start on local radio and demos and show reels are a popular wa of trying to get in. Moyles was on PulseFM in Bradford along with Hadrian Green who went on to be Sandy Beach (!?) at a later stage. Someone I went to school with still works at that station.

Not sure about the menial jobs point. I've worked for a broadcaster and don't know anyone who came in as a researcher, runner or technical staff member who went on to present. Most did go on to better jobs in the same field but not as presenters. Saying that I only worked for one broadcaster so can't speak for everyone .

I know a couple of hospital radio DJs myself (actually I think only one of them might still do it....) I used to also speak to the BBC staff who were doing the City Hospital program down at Southampton General, so perhaps times have changed... the program was about 12 years back.

Funny story. I could have stolen a couple of Neumann U87 mics quite easily off them (should I have ever been that way inclined). They'd leave a yellow trolley full of recording gear, mics, DAT recorders, booms etc unattended whilst they did the job in hand. Atleast 15 high quality mics were in that trolley, anyone could have just dipped in and taken them unnoticed.

 

[hackbike 666]

Christian 'O' Connell rang up the BBC to donate to the Chris Moyles just giving site and it didn't go down to well with the woman on the other end...(Hilarious I know...Not)...The thing is I dislike Christian 'O' Connells show more than I dislike yours truly...

http://www.justgivin...istopher-Moyles

 

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Christian 'O' Connel rang up the BBC to donate to the Chris Moyles just giving site and it didn't go down to well with the woman on the other end...(Hilarious I know...Not)...The thing is I dislike Christian 'O' Connels show more than I dislike yours truly...

http://www.justgivin...istopher-Moyles

He's worse than Moyles. My Bro said he got his 6 year old daughter to ring up a shop and be abusive to the owner or something.

 

[hackbike 666]

I think his show is just drivel...I listen to it sometimes in the morning when im in the kitchen because I get the best reception on that channel and all you get is him yapping half the morning and no music...and im not in the mood generally to listen to his crap.I used to prefer that Jeff bloke...at least he was slightly funny.