1:47pm Tuesday 9th February 2010
By Murray Kelso
THE BBC has revealed that in the year up to March 2009 it paid its presenters and artists a total of £229m.
Around a third of the total amount - £70m - went to the corporation's best-known figures, although no individual salaries have been revealed.
The total figure represents around 6.5 per cent of the licence fee paid by TV-watchers across the country.
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