Last financial year Chris Evans earned something over £1.66m from the BBC. (Graham Norton probably got more money out of Auntie in total, but most was channelled through his production company.) He quit presenting Top Gear in July 2017, so some proportion of the £1.66m represents the final trickle of tv fees.
Prior to Top Gear, he was thought to be on around £1m for the Radio 2 Breakfast Show alone - but where would that salary have landed in the new world of BBC realism ? Wogan was believed to be on around £800k; second highest paid currently at Radio 2 is Steve Wright, on £550k. Clearly Chris Evans was open to offers - and News International's Rebekah Brooks decided to dosh up Scott Taunton, her radio boss at the Wireless Group, to acquire the Ginger One for Virgin Radio.
It's the radio station Chris used to own, with a weekly reach of 3.7m when he left in 2001. It's currently reaching a mere 413,000 listeners a week - down from a September 2017 peak of 556,000. On Radio 2, Evans reaches nine million a week.
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