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| Journalist and broadcaster Robert Peston has revealed ITV is paying him more than a third more than the BBC did as he prepares to launch his new Sunday morning show this spring. | Journalist and broadcaster Robert Peston has revealed ITV is paying him more than a third more than the BBC did as he prepares to launch his new Sunday morning show this spring. |
| In an interview with the Sunday Times, Peston said he is being paid “nothing remotely” like the £750,000 some newspapers reported he was offered but admits ITV is paying him “a lot more” than the BBC. | In an interview with the Sunday Times, Peston said he is being paid “nothing remotely” like the £750,000 some newspapers reported he was offered but admits ITV is paying him “a lot more” than the BBC. |
| “Obviously, the money matters, but this was about challenge, about getting more fun in my life, and this is fun,” he said. | “Obviously, the money matters, but this was about challenge, about getting more fun in my life, and this is fun,” he said. |
| Peston started as political editor at ITV in January after about 10 years at the BBC, where he last held the role of economics editor. He was billed as part of ITV News’s “dream team” along with Tom Bradby as News at Ten presenter. | Peston started as political editor at ITV in January after about 10 years at the BBC, where he last held the role of economics editor. He was billed as part of ITV News’s “dream team” along with Tom Bradby as News at Ten presenter. |
| In the interview he denied hoping to “humiliate” the BBC. “That was just me acting up, doing an interview because I was quite keen for the public to watch me in my first week,” he sid. “I love the BBC and I got upset about that sort of phoney spat, because Huw Edwards was a consistently good friend.” | In the interview he denied hoping to “humiliate” the BBC. “That was just me acting up, doing an interview because I was quite keen for the public to watch me in my first week,” he sid. “I love the BBC and I got upset about that sort of phoney spat, because Huw Edwards was a consistently good friend.” |
| Part of the deal was that as well as being political editor, Peston would get his own Sunday morning show called Peston. He said the programme is thought to be scheduled for a 10am slot when it airs this spring so it will not clash with BBC One’s Andrew Marr show. That show, which airs at 9am, attracted between 1.2 million and 1.4 million viewers in September, compared with fewer than 185,000 on ITV for shows such as children’s programme Horrible Science and Murder She Wrote. | Part of the deal was that as well as being political editor, Peston would get his own Sunday morning show called Peston. He said the programme is thought to be scheduled for a 10am slot when it airs this spring so it will not clash with BBC One’s Andrew Marr show. That show, which airs at 9am, attracted between 1.2 million and 1.4 million viewers in September, compared with fewer than 185,000 on ITV for shows such as children’s programme Horrible Science and Murder She Wrote. |
| Peston’s appointment came after years in which ITV ceded ground in public service broadcasting, with the likes of Sky News going head-to-head with the BBC over public service reporting. | Peston’s appointment came after years in which ITV ceded ground in public service broadcasting, with the likes of Sky News going head-to-head with the BBC over public service reporting. |
| The channel once dominated the space with the likes of Brian Walden’s Weekend World and Frost on Sunday but after its public service obligations were loosened in the 1990s, the channel started to show repeats of children’s television programmes on a Sunday morning. | The channel once dominated the space with the likes of Brian Walden’s Weekend World and Frost on Sunday but after its public service obligations were loosened in the 1990s, the channel started to show repeats of children’s television programmes on a Sunday morning. |