It costs everyone in UK £147 a year for the TV licence.
The most recent figures available (2015-6) indicate there are 25 million licence payers. Some pay less (over 75yrs, the blind etc) This totals about three-and-a-half billion pounds every year.

I understand that most of these greedy presenters live in central London, and accommodation etc there is extremely expensive.But as banjoman says, poor people have to live there too.

I have never understood why any human being of either sex needs massive amounts of money to live on. It's all relative anyway. How much food can one person consume? How many pairs of shoes can one wear at a time? How many cars are needed to get from A to B? Once one is adequately provided for, anything above that is greed and extravagance.

I have a personal axe to grind, as I have seen terrible things due to abject poverty in W Africa. A tiny amount of these presenters' massive salaries would literally save lives there.