03·11·09 Week 44 explore.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ariel THE BBC NEWSPAPER HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY MAIDA VALE a Page 5 £20M LESS FOR TOP EARNERS 100 FEWER SENIOR MANAGERS EXTRA paY FREEZE HALT TO BONUSES A RADICAL REVIEW BUT LOWER GRADES UNAFFECTED FOR NOW SAYS LYONS - PAGES 2&3 > NEWS 2-4 WEEK AT WORK 8-9 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 FOREIGN BUREAU 15 GREEN ROOM 16 < 216 SENIOR PAY REVIEW aa 00·00·08 03·11·09 a 03·11·09 SENIOR PAY REVIEW 3 NEWS BITES a DiederiCK SANTer will step down from his role as executive producer on EastEnders in February, after the show celebrates its 25th anniversary. Room 2316, White City ‘Brutal truth is we don’t need to pay as much’ Bryan Kirkwood, who has worked 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS on Coronation Street and Hollyoaks, 020 8008 4228 pay cuts, there will be reduced income in real will take over. The announcement terms, she says, particularly for execs whose follows the news that Barbara Editor There’s been a radical rethink on senior manager longer pay freeze will result in a package worth Windsor is also to leave the show. Candida Watson 02-84222 pay and numbers. Michael Lyons and Lucy Adams ‘To simply target 14.5 percent less by 2013. Deputy editors Can the business easily lose 100 managers ALEXandra BURKE, winner of last Sally Hillier 02-26877 tell Cathy Loughran it’s tough but timely at a time of tough decision-making, including year’s The X Factor, and runners-up Cathy Loughran 02-27360 the highest paid around the size and scope of the BBC? JLS, along with The Black Eyed Peas Features editor As major projects like Salford, W1 and the and The Saturdays, will perform at Clare Bolt 02-27445 n The executive remuneration review n senior manager salaries frozen for a further would put the Olympics wind down, some project-based man- BBC Switch Live at the Hammersmith Reporters recommends slicing a quarter off the £79m year to at least August 2011 agers would be redeployed anyway. And at 2.5 Apollo in London on November Laura Scarrott 02-84224 pay bill of the 634 most senior managers and n bonuses for all executive directors business at risk’ percent of the workforce, the number of SMs is 8. Around 4000 teenagers are Production editor reducing senior manager numbers by 18 percent suspended until further notice slightly on the large size, she feels. expected to attend the event, to be n Claire Barrett 02-27368 to around 520, by 2013. bonuses for other directors and senior LUCY ADAMS With an annual turnover of 10 percent, this hosted by dj Nick Grimshaw and More corporate roles are likely to go than jobs managers suspended for a further two years was an opportunity to look afresh at whether Kimberley Walsh of Girls Aloud. Art editor in output areas, the report says. Commissioned n a review of all senior manager posts as they the BBC needs to replace every outgoing sen- Ken Sinyard 02-84229 by the BBC Trust in February and drafted by become vacant; ior manager at the same level or the same rate. BBC ToUrs in Manchester has Ariel online management, the new policy will also see: n greater attention to internal promotion and This too is already happening, Adams says. The received an accreditation from Alex Goodey 02-27410 n salaries of the nine executive board directors succession planning to cut down external hope is to avoid any compulsory redundancies. VAQAS (the Visitor Attraction Business co-ordinator and the BDG (BBC direction group), including hiring She accepts that there are anomalies in the Quality Assurance Scheme). The Silvana Romana 02-84228 the director general’s, frozen for a further three n up front information about SM salary grading structure (see below) which could lead accreditation places BBC Tours on Ariel mail years, making it a four year freeze in total; ‘discounts’ against private sector pay. to perceived unfairness in any pay freeze: ‘And the same footing as other attractions [email protected] this could be an opportunity to clear those up in the region such as The Imperial Ariel online explore.gateway.bbc.uk/ariel over time,’ she adds. War Museum North and Chester Zoo. Adams admits that judging whether the For MICHaeL Lyons, the business of driving year, getting harder year on year, and wages are a Michael Lyons: proposals go too far, and could jeopardise the BBC WM and Birmingham Children’s Guest contributors this week down BBC costs and responding to industry large part of our costs.’ no one should BBC’s ability to attract the best, is a ‘dilemma’: Hospital have raised £1,507,106.46 in pressures and public mood is not about He adds: ‘We all live in a world where no one expect an ‘We think we’ve got the balance right but only their joint appeal in aid of children ‘gesture politics’. should expect an annual pay rise.’ annual pay rise time will tell and we’ll be watching closely.’ suffering kidney disease. The target MAGGIE CURTIS, news editor of The Trust could have followed the head- What does it say about the BBC if it can afford The aim to increase internal SM promotion was £1.5m, and announcing the Radio Lincolnshire, swaps the line writers and just slashed the biggest of the to lose almost one in five senior managers. Too top rates from 65 to at least 70 percent in three years final figure last week, breakfast newsroom for a stint back at six figure salaries: ‘That’s constantly the focus heavy, as frequent critics say? was a chance to ‘build momentum’ around bet- presenter Phil Upton thanked university. Page 14 but it’s not the issue,’ the trust chairman says. It’s a ‘completely fallacious argument,’ Lyons ter succession planning. the generosity of listeners. ‘We’re trying to manage costs in difficult cir- counters. ‘These reductions won’t be happening were ‘not going to feel very palatable’ to those cy with less people and that must be our on whether it would have been fairer – as some Might the need to reduce SM numbers not CANDACE PIETTE, South America cumstances and we see evidence of being able to overnight and we’re satisfied that with natural affected, but that working for the BBC is ‘a unique objective.’ SMs have suggested – to simply cut pay to the generate a glass ceiling for grade 11s? ‘Execu- INTerviews wiTH women from correspondent, on life in Buenos strike good deals for new talent, on and off screen. churn and retirement it will be possible to take privilege which brings with it unrivalled creative In fact, some of the review principles are highest earners. tive board directors will make sure that doesn’t the 1930s to the 1980s are now Aires. Page 15 But we’re not expecting hair shirt gestures.’ those posts out. Do I think it’s an opportunity to management opportunities’. already in practice, says Lucy Adams – a key ‘Among the 634 top managers and nine happen,’ she assured. available on the BBC Archive in He is quick to make clear that this latest pay simplify senior management roles? Yes I do.’ Lyons agrees: ‘It’s a radical review and may architect of the review. executive directors there are people at all levels On the reaction of some senior staff who say a collection on the Suffragette review is solely about executive board and senior In his email to staff last week, Mark Thomp- seem rough justice for an organisation that’s do- ‘Over the last six months, where we’ve who are paid above and below the market rate. they’ve been left ‘demotivated’, she insists that movement, part of an ongoing series managers: ‘There are no immediate plans to roll son described the changes as ‘an appropriate and ing well on all performance indicators. But the replaced people at senior manager level, it’s To just target the highest paid, who could earn ‘these are not decisions that have been taken exploring the cultural and political BBC Jobs 0370 333 1330 out the same principles elsewhere,’ he confirms. measured response to changes in the economy trust has to preserve the best value on screen and been at a 15-25 percent lower rate,’ reveals the more outside, would be putting the business at lightly’: ‘It is right to demonstrate leadership developments that shaped the Jobs textphone 028 9032 8478 ‘But there is a real challenge here from the and to the public expectations of us’. across senior management. director of BBC People. risk,’ she told Ariel. [in the current economic climate]. The brutal 20th century. Go to www.bbc.co.uk/ BBC Jobs John Clarke 02-27143 trust with a BBC savings target of three percent a He acknowledged that the announcements ‘I believe it is possible to improve efficien- Six months into the job she has her own take In any case, while there will be no arbitrary truth is, we don’t need to pay as much.’ archive/suffragettes/index.shtml Room 2120, White City, London W12 7TS Advertise in Ariel BBC WALes is looking for people to Ten Alps Media 020 7878 2313 participate in new tv series Snowdonia Farmhouse, in which two modern www.bbcarielads.com day families will be immersed in Printing Staff comments How the pressure built on all fronts Increased Upgrading life in 1890. The series, to be filmed Garnett Dickinson Group Among the majority of staff unaffected by the and broadcast in 2010, follows a Rotherham 01709 768000 review, there was some support for moves to THE sysTem of pay grades is scattered with seem- similar project called The Coal House.