Take your pick

The highlights of the BBC's Annual Report often depend on your perspective.  The NUJ will admire the redundancy deal for DDG Mark Byford - at £949k.  Marketeers will admire Sharon Baylay securing a pay-off of £392k for around 21 months on the Executive Board - that on top of a full year salary package of £254k.  Staff moving to Salford will have been delighted to hear the Director of BBC North, Peter Salmon, asserting that running costs of employees at MediaCityUK will be half those in London - whilst Peter's salary package last year was £436k.

In the Trust section, there's a gee-up for Radio 1Xtra to increase its audience amongst younger listeners (Time to ditch Westwood, 53 ?) and a reminder about the Asian Network "BBC radio should seek to serve Asian listeners as well as it does all audience groups."

From the figures, we note an increase in the cost per user hour of BBC Alba, from 20.6 to 21.8p.  And admire the Asian Network for keeping the audience increasing - so its costs per listener hour go down from 8.5p to 6.7p.

From his intro, it takes DG Mark Thompson an astonishing three paragraphs before mentioning "A History of The World In 100 Objects".