Tim Henman will be paid $23,000 per day for Wimbledon commentary on the BBC, the Daily Mail reports. Henman will collect $330,000 for the tournament, less than what presenter Sue Barker makes annually ($620,000), but Barker also hosts "A Question Of Sport," "The Grand National" and the BBC’s "Sports Personality Of The Year," among other shows. The BBC is taxpayer funded. “This is a huge amount of license-fee payers’ money for a fortnight’s work, especially when the BBC are supposed to be cutting its sports budget," the Taxpayer’s Alliance John O’Connell told the newspaper. “The BBC has exclusive rights to the tournament so there are no market pressures for the payment to run this high, but it’s ordinary families that will foot the bill."
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