To: Plato, design is one of the hardest professional practices to "get right". Your uneducated derision of the industry explicitly frames your lack of any understanding of the importance of aesthetics in business.

As the former head of IBM once said:

"Good design is good business."

Andrei, Manila,

I wonder if the BBC will ever tell us the breakdown of cost of, for instance, Radios Three or Four. I suspect that, in the case of Radio Three it probably works out at several thousand pounds per listener.

C.Wood, Camberley, UK

clearly designers are overpaid but so many people are in this country while the real hard work is done by underpaid public servants.
What is most annoying to me is too much Rumpty tumpty background 'music' while info I dont need is flashed repeatedly
also too much world weather and time wasting

plato, ely, uk

The BBC is out of control.

It has too much money.

Parliament is frightened rigid that any attempt to control this monster will lead to the ritual crucifixion on prime time news of any politicians implicated.

Albert Judd, Paris,

Another £550,000 for the licence payer to fund..on top of gross salaries for so called celebs.

The licence fee should be scrapped ... its a regressive tax...the low paid have to pay the same as a multimillionaires and the like. I never see this subject on BBC news though.

anna, camberley,

Why are the BBC wasting license payers money on this unecessary rubbish, just to keep a bunch of overpaid graphics designers in work?

Generally the presentation of the news has got worse over the years: too many so-called "analysts" brought in to the studio and a dumbing down of the content

Matt, Wiltshire,

The complaints are short-term, impatient nonsense. People said the same about the new BBC weather map when it was launched, but now it's recognized to be excellent.

Benjamin, London,

Is it still the old left-wing slanted bias, to a thumping disco beat ?

Phil Batten, Christchurcg, UK

I entirely agree particularly with the hearing destroyer of sound. If you turn the sound to a reasonable level one cannot hear the news!

M. Cawdery, Portadown, Co. UK, EU.

It works out at a cost of £1 for everyone with a BBC TV Licence. Now what commercial company would waste money in this manner!

John, Salford, England

At my 4 year old daughter's school all the kids and Dads had a preview on the assembly hall telly of these new graphics about 3 weeks ago-the designer is a Dad at our school. Although slightly bored, none of the kids or adults showed any signs of fainting and once it was over the kids jumped up and had a good run around.

Markus Holler, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT