Davey lamped

It'll be entertaining to see where Alan Davey's salary ends up, as Controller Radio 3. His Arts Council England package was £186,000 p.a. in the last annual report. Gwyneth Williams, at Radio 4 is on a package of £191k; Jonathan Wall, at 5Live, approaches £143k; Ben Cooper, at Radio 1, close to £170k.

Roger Wright was on £227,450 - but then he ran the Proms, as well as four of the six "performing groups", the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Alan, apparently, gets to run all six - adding the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. But even if Alan comes in for level money, that only leaves the odd £41k for a Proms director to keep the budget balanced. Doesn't sound like enough to me.

The performing groups are nearly always at risk - under the current Delivering Quality First cuts, they're saving 10%, while everyone else has a target of 16% or more.

Alan, as the outraged Norman Lebrecht speculates, could be in the job for some time; he's either 53 or 54, depending on your sources. I expect he won't be spending much money on Norman Lebrecht programmes.