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Date RFI2013 Summary received Please can you provide with the average salary of local news presenter. Ie look north RFI20130001 01/01/2013 This FOI requested reasons for the BBC's wrong and hypothetical stance on the July 7 2005 bombings in London, when evidence clearly suggests that it was an inside job, the bombs were already planted under the trains...Why has the BBC not looked at the evidence which points to its cover-up and why is the BBC clinging on to its rehearsed storylines which are untrue, baseless and impossible RFI20130002 and don't make any sense? 02/01/2013 How much are the following members of the 'Match of the Day' team paid: Gary Lineker, Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Colin Murray, Robbie Savage, and Alan Shearer? - How much are the following athletics presenters and commentators paid: Steve Cram, Denise Lewis, Michael Johnson, Colin Jackson, Jonathan Edwards, Stuart Storie, Phil Dickinson, and John Rawling? and - Are the above presenters, commentators, and contributors paid on a salary RFI20130005 basis, or per appearance? 02/01/2013 How much did the BBC pay in total on TV panel guests for Question Time, QI and Mock The Week in 2012? What is each panellist paid to appear on Question Time in 2012? And, what was it in 2011? What is each panellist paid to appear on QI in 2012? And, what was it in 2011? What is each panellist paid to appear on Mock The Week in 2012? And, what was it in 2011? How much did the BBC pay in expenses in total for panellists on Questions Time in 2012? And, what did it pay out in 2011? How much did the BBC pay in expenses in total for panellists on Mock the Week in 2012? And, what did it pay out in 2011? How much did the BBC pay in expenses in total for the panellists on QI in 2012? And, what did it pay out in 2011? How much did the BBC pay in hotel bills for panellists appearing on Question Time, Mock The Week and QI in 2012? How much did the BBC pay in travel expenses for panellists appearing on Question Time, Mock The Week and QI in 2012? What is the average fee and expenses the BBC paid per panellist on Question Time in 2012? What is the average fee and expenses the BBC paid per panellist on QI in 2012? What is the average free and expenses the BBC paid per panellist RFI20130006 on Mock the Week in 2012? 02/01/2013 Wanted Down Under’ - I feel that this programme is propaganda and is aimed at getting our Health professionals to emigrate to Australia. The programme is biased and is on CONTINUALLY - I've lost count of the amount of episodes that have been made. I would like to ask under the 'Freedom of Information act' . Who RFI20130009 is funding this programme? 04/01/2013 Re: RFI20121418 1. The attempts by the Socialist Party of Great Britain to obtain air time on radio and television, including correspondence to and from individual members of the public on the same subject. 2. Complaints (and replies) from the organisation and members of the public about the content of programmes concerned with political and social issues, which it was felt would have been enhanced, and led to greater clarification, by points RFI20130010 raised by SPGB input. 04/01/2013 Ranked list (with urls) of the twenty most popular technology stories from 2012 that appeared on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology/. Please can you rank them by the number of unique visitors each story had (but also supply overall page view numbers for each story as well). Where did the technology news page ranked when compared to entertainment and arts, sci/environment, education, RFI20130011 health, politics and business. 06/01/2013 Please provide all correspondence, internally or with external parties, and memos or other communications, about the scheduling of the BBC Two Racing Legends programme about Colin McRae, and the decision about when to screen the programme, and any correspondence about moving the programme from the RFI20130014 original advertised date of December 28, 2012. 04/01/2013 Who(singular or plural) approved Jonathan Ross's pay deal in 2006. Please could I have their name(s) and contact details as I wish to RFI20130015 ask them some questions, 06/01/2013 Are quiz question setting companies employed by the BBC instructed to ensure that general knowledge questions do not disadvantage quiz participants who did not receive an education in England - with general knowledge questions relating solely to England and/ or being dependant on the content of the English primary/ secondary school curriculum? The same question obviously applies to the other RFI20130018 three parts of the UK. 05/01/2013 under my rights of the THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, I request the following information regarding when both Cardiff City FC and Swansea City FC BOTH play on a Saturday at the same time with a 3 pm kick off. I request the NUMBER OF TIMES and DATES (when BBC radio Wales 882 MW ) when Cardiff City FC have been given full Saturday coverage and commentary on all Wales MW 882 in - the 2011/12 season and -so far this season 2012/3. Likewise I request the NUMBER OF TIMES and DATES (when BBC radio Wales 882 MW )when Swansea City FC have been given full Saturday coverage and commentary on MW 882 - in the 2011/12 season and -so far this season 2012/3. I would be grateful if you would also send these comments and my previous comments to the person in charge of scheduling and deciding commentary choice re. these matches on 882 MW. I would welcome comments of the person in charge of scheduling commentary ON WHY THEY SEEM TO THiNK that listeners on 882 MW all over Wales would prefer to listen to the LOWER LEAGUE championship RFI20130020 matches(Cardiff's) rather than the ELITE Premier league fixtures of Swansea 03/01/2013 please can you send general information regarding a) the marking of calendrical occasions by the BBC, and b) the relative extent to which various calendrical occasions are marked. Please send me information that is as specific as possible, without being so specific that it is excluded under the Act. Or does the information regarding a) and b) that you are willing to disclose amount merely to a calendar of RFI20130021 the type that probably most households in the country already have a copy of? 06/01/2013 How many page views and shares on Twitter and Facebook did the following stories from the BBC News website receive? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19419395 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20692893 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19786520 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20494391 Please provide any available data on where in the world each of the above stories was viewed. Please can I have a list, with URLs, of the top 50 most read education stories (by page views) of 2012 and their shares on Twitter and RFI20130031 Facebook? 07/01/2013 Re: Springwatch Guide To Otters, can you also advise what organisations your Editors below too, I am specifically looking at the anti-angling groups such as PETA, the CAA (Campaign for the abolition of angling), and RSPB and RSPCA RFI20130032 who are also largely anti-angling. 07/01/2013 Re: Thought For The Day on Today Programme, number of complaints received over past 5 years, number complaining about non-religious speakers, ratio of support to criticism, whether this slot is regularly up for review, and whether there RFI20130033 is a policy for who contributes 07/01/2013 Re: Rogue Traders, 26th Sep 2012 - Please would you disclose the costs to the licence payer (if any) for a) The cleaning bill for the presenters clothing. Any cost of replacing the clothing. RFI20130034 Who paid the cost. 08/01/2013 in relation to the BBC’s decision not to cover the Steubenville High School rape case in Ohio. 1. Are you aware of the Steubenville story? If so, when were you first aware of it? 2. What process does the BBC use to ensure it is aware of news stories across the world? 3. Who makes decisions about which new stories to include/not include within the BBC’s content? Can you provide job title/s, grades, names of committees etc. please? 4. What is the context within which they make these decisions? I.e. is there a policy guide that the decision makers need to abide by to make their decisions? Can I see this guide? 5. If not already answered in 4 & 5 above, can you advise who decided, and on what basis, that the Steubenville High School rape case in Ohio would be omitted RFI20130035 from the BBC’s content? 08/01/2013 BBC London News - Enquired about a contributor copy of the programme. on the monring of the 4th Novemeber i was interviewed by one of your team, MR ROBIN PUNT. It was broadcast on london news bbc as my friends phoned me up and told me they had seen me!! I have tried to contact Robin various times and he has not replied. Under the freedom of information act and as agreed with Robin i RFI20130037 would like a copy of this 09/01/2013 Can I request the public voting figures for the recent series of strictly come RFI20130039 dancing please. 11/01/2013 The number of employees and contractors who work on the 'Stacey Dooley Investigates' programme, the annual cost to the taxpayer for researching, producing and airing all the episodes in the series.
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