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	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Former Director of the BBC, Greg Dyke \| PBS
		Former Director of the BBC, Greg Dyke
		Bill Moyers talked with former BBC director general Greg Dyke, who left his post in the wake of the weapons of mass destruction scandal and the Hutton Inquiry and the scandal.
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	www.pbs.org /now/politics/dyke.html (291 words)

	Ian Jacob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Ian Jacob was Director-General of the BBC from 1952 to 1959, succeeding Sir William Haley and giving way to Sir Hugh Greene.
		From a military background, Sir Ian has often been blamed (but has conversely sometimes been praised) for a perceived overt middle-class bias and somewhat "stuffy" attitude in the BBC of the 1950s, which became a factor in its loss of TV audiences to ITV from 1955 onwards.
		However, BBC Television in the 50s did broadcast some popular American series, notably The Phil Silvers Show (or Sergeant Bilko as it was almost universally known).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_Jacob (131 words)

	BBC shake-up to mean job losses
		BBC director general Mark Thompson will announce an overhaul of the corporation on Tuesday leading to the loss of thousands of jobs.
		BBC departments including Children's TV and radio, Sport and Radio Five Live are set to face the move to Manchester, although it could take up to five years to complete.
		Mr Thompson was appointed as director general of the BBC in March, succeeding Greg Dyke who resigned in the wake of the Hutton Report.
	homepage.mac.com /okkibokki/iblog/B377254671/C757815582/E2117085418 (573 words)

	MediaGuardian.co.uk \| Media \| BBC director general to lose role in dealing with complaints
		The BBC's director general is to be relieved of the responsibility for dealing with complaints to the corporation, after Greg Dyke's handling of the Iraq dossier row led to the unprecedented resignation of its two most senior figures.
		After considering the role of Mr Dyke in last year's row, the BBC has decided that the director general, who currently has the final say on complaints, should be removed from the process.
		It is expected that the BBC will attempt to distance the Neil report from the Hutton inquiry, largely because Mr Neil's committee and a separate internal disciplinary investigation both concluded that far less went wrong in the run-up to Andrew Gilligan's broadcast than Lord Hutton concluded.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Media/site/story/0,14173,1243731,00.html (727 words)

	BBC Director General Definition / BBC Director General Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sir Frederick OgilvieSir Frederick W. Ogilvie (died June 10, 1949) was Director-General of the BBC from July 19, 1938 (aged 45) to January 26, 1942, and was succeeded by joint Director-Generals Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot.
		Alasdair MilneAlasdair Milne was Director-General of the BBC from July 1982 until a forced resignation, under intense pressure from the Thatcher government and a Board of BBC Governors dominated by Conservatives, in January 1987.
		Sir Michael ChecklandSir Michael Checkland (born 1936) was Director-General of the BBC from 1987 to 1992, having been appointed after the forced resignation of Alasdair Milne....
	www.elresearch.com /BBC_Director_General (1080 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Deputy Director-General appointment
		BBC Director-General Greg Dyke today (10 December 2003) announced the appointment of Mark Byford as Deputy Director-General from the start of the New Year.
		BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies said today: "It is clear that Britain's most important public service broadcaster must have the highest standards of editorial compliance.
		In 1998 he was appointed Director of the World Service and last year became leader of the BBC's newly formed Global News Division, responsible for all the BBC's international news services across radio, television and online.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/12_december/10/deputy_dg.shtml (561 words)

	Crosswalk.com - BBC Director-General Resigns in Wake of Report
		The director general is in charge of the BBC's day-to-day affairs.
		In addition to its supervisory role, the BBC governors are also charged with advocating on behalf of the organization, a system that came under scrutiny when they backed journalist Andrew Gilligan over a report that called into question the British government's use of intelligence.
		In his final report, Lord Hutton, the senior judge investigating the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death, ruled that the BBC story was "unfounded" and criticized some of the corporation's editorial procedures.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1243550.html (764 words)

	eyes2eyes.com
		By the time the BBC monopoly was broken by the arrival of Independent Television (ITV) in 1955, over 90 percent of the population had access to television.
		BBC broadcasters were taking their social responsibilities seriously with programs for deaf and disabled people joining those for blind people, as well as a multimedia campaign on adult literacy.
		The management can, however, point to a general acceptance by the present Conservative government of a continuation of the BBC beyond 1996, when its charter is due for renewal, along with financing through the license fee method.
	www.eyes2eyes.com /pointsdisplay01.cfm?id=112 (2033 words)

	Mark Thompson - BBC director-general
		Mr Thompson returned to the BBC hoping to draw a line under the post-Hutton period that claimed the job of his predecessor, Greg Dyke, and the previous chairman, Gavyn Davies.
		Byford took the top journalism job ahead of the hapless Richard Sambrook, the BBC's director of news and current affairs who survived his ineffectual role in the Gilligan affair.
		Lorraine Heggessey, controller of BBC One for four years, and responsible for the dumbing down at the channel announced she was leaving in February 2005.
	theinternetforum.co.uk /bbc/directorgeneral1.html (179 words)

	AM Archive - BBC's Director General resigns
		TONY EASTLEY: To Britain and the administration of the BBC is in a shambles after first its Chairman, and now its Director General quit in the wake of the scathing criticisms of the public broadcaster in yesterday's Hutton report.
		Director General, Greg Dyke, the second scalp of the Hutton inquiry.
		With their departure and in the wake of Lord Hutton's comprehensive criticisms, those close to the BBC, like John Tusa, former Managing Director of BBC World Service, are concerned about the public broadcaster's future.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2004/s1034560.htm (644 words)

	MediaGuardian.co.uk \| Media \| C4 chief who vowed to reject BBC interviewed for director general
		Jana Bennett, the director of television, touted earlier, is understood not to have thrown her hat into the ring.
		The director general will also have to manage the implications of Mr Grade's expected shake-up of the governors, which is likely to strengthen their role as regulators of the BBC's management.
		Mr Willis, 58, was director of programmes at Channel 4 in the 90s when Mr Grade was chief executive, and applied unsuccessfully for his job when the latter quit in 1997.
	media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1221624,00.html (677 words)

	BBC appoints new director-general. 22/05/2004. ABC News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mr Thompson replaces Greg Dyke, who quit earlier this year when the BBC was heavily criticised after a row between the broadcaster and authorities over a report accusing the government of hyping the case for war in Iraq.
		The appointment was the first by BBC chairman Michael Grade, who only took his job on Monday, filling the vacancy left by the resignation of Gavyn Davies.
		As director of national and regional broadcasting, he saw the BBC's regional television audiences keep ahead of its competition and local radio audiences rise.
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1113598.htm (355 words)

	Scotsman.com News - The BBC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		BBC Scotland's historic Glasgow headquarters, based on a prime site in the city's West End, is going on the market with an estimated value of more than £12 million.
		THE BBC yesterday set out its inflation-busting demand for the licence fee that could mean viewers paying nearly £180 a year by 2014.
		THE BBC wants to raise an extra £5.5 billion from the licence fee over the next seven years.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=474&id=113862004 (455 words)

	New BBC Director General: Your reaction
		The BBC has confirmed that Channel 4's Mark Thompson is to become its new director general.
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		The BBC confirms that the chief executive of Channel 4, Mark Thompson, is to become its new director general.
	www.stargeek.com /item/136416.html (963 words)

	Mark Thompson new BBC director general- Indiantelevision.com's Breaking News
		This is a homecoming of sorts for Thompson, who had been with the BBC for 23 years, holding many positions in news and current affairs including director of its television division.
		To a question on boosting the staff morale at the BBC in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry, Thompson is quoted as saying the staff could be very confident about the BBC's future, although there were lessons to be learned from recent months.
		Speaking on behalf of the BBC's board of directors, Grade is quoted as saying Thompson was the right person to lead the BBC at this important period in its history.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/may/may183.htm (298 words)

	New Zealand News - World - Mark Thompson unveiled as new director general of BBC
		The BBC Board of Governors unanimously backed Mr Thompson after a meeting yesterday afternoon during which they discussed the relative merits of the Channel 4 chief and Mark Byford, the acting director general.
		The new director general was born in London, brought up in Hertfordshire and educated at Stonyhurst and Merton College, Oxford, where he picked up a First.
		The former director general, who resigned after the publication of the Hutton inquiry, also had time to pay a tribute to Mr Byford, who he had appointed as his deputy late last year.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/05/22/cache/202263.html (700 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| BBC chairman quits over Hutton
		The Hutton report would be taken into account for the review of the BBC's charter in 2006, she said, but the result would be a "strong BBC, independent of government".
		BBC director general Greg Dyke said the corporation apologised for things which were wrong in Mr Gilligan's reports and pointed to changes in the corporation's procedures
		BBC political editor Andrew Marr's reaction to the report was: "In the end what it comes down to is a judgement by Lord Hutton - who he believes, whose motives he trusts most and in that, again and again, he comes down on the side of politicians and officials."
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/3434661.stm (848 words)

	The acting director-general of the BBC has spoken of his hopes for a better relationship between the broadcaster and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The acting director-general of the BBC has spoken of his hope for a better relationship between the broadcaster and the regional press, with more collaboration between the two.
		Speaking at the Newspaper Society's annual lunch, Mark Byford told an audience of regional newspaper publishers, editors and their guests that the BBC and regional newspapers had more in common than was sometimes thought, and more could be done to exploit this to the benefit of both.
		Also speaking, at the Society's Annual General Meeting on the same day, was Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin, who talked about of the significance of the regional press in the work of the Commission, and Graham Smith, the deputy information commissioner, who covered the impending implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
	www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk /behind/analysis/040506spe.shtml (545 words)

	[GB] Official Inquiry Leads to Resignation of Chairman and Director-General of the BBC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The BBC had then broadcast the allegation that the dossier prepared for Government by the security services had been doctored to make the threat seem more immediate than it had originally appeared; the Government spokesman vigorously denied that this had taken place.
		The BBC Board of Governors was correct to consider it their duty to protect the independence of the BBC against attacks by the Government, but should have recognised that this was not incompatible with giving proper consideration to the validity of the Government's complaints.
		The future governance of the BBC is one of the issues currently being examined by the Charter Review, which is due to result in a new Charter in 2006.
	merlin.obs.coe.int /iris/2004/4/article21.en.html (394 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| BBC apologises as Dyke quits
		Director General Greg Dyke has quit as the BBC's crisis deepens in the wake of Lord Hutton's damning verdict.
		Former BBC journalist Martin Bell paid tribute to Mr Dyke: "He revived the confidence of staff, he was an inspirational leader and his departure is a serious blow to public sector broadcasting."
		The departure of both the BBC chairman and director general comes amid growing calls for the BBC to come under outside regulation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3441181.stm (883 words)

	ZNet \| Mainstream Media \| MEDIA ALERT: BBC DIRECTOR-GENERAL GIVEN AN EASY RIDE BY THE INDEPENDENT
		The BBC's director of news, Richard Sambrook, has responded with identical answers to several cogent and passionate emails from Media Lens readers pointing out the BBC's dearth of coverage on Afghan refugees compared to that afforded Kosovar refugees (declared our enemies' victims) in 1999 and to U.S. victims of September 11.
		That BBC TV coverage on the suffering of the refugees is as late and little as this is a shocking indictment of the BBC.
		But Jury's presentation of BBC output is restricted to the politically safe topic of acclaimed drama ('The Way We Live Now' and 'Conspiracy'), "brave" new art documentaries ('Rolf on Art') and Mr Dyke's observation that programmes such as ITV's 'Bloody Sunday' is the kind of thing "the BBC should have done".
	www.zmag.org /content/MainstreamMedia/CromEdwardsMedia.cfm (1398 words)

	Scotsman.com News - The BBC - BBC Director General Greg Dyke resigns
		Greg Dyke, the Director General of the BBC, has resigned following the government’s mounting pressure in the wake of the Hutton report.
		Mr Davies reacted with disbelief to Hutton's damaging attack on the BBC's credibility in his resignation speech yesterday, saying that Hutton's conclusions were "bald" and could be a threat to the freedom of the press.
		The BBC should apologise for broadcasting a false allegation which was unfounded.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=474&id=113862004 (470 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Breakfast with Frost \| Director-General of the BBC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I think there are traditions, values, things that the public have expected from the BBC for 80 years, we've got to hold onto but we've got to find new ways of expressing them, with new technologies, through mobile phones, digital television, broadband and so forth.
		I was involved in the 90s in the charter then, all the same arguments happened and actually the BBC and its, and its relationship with the public persists and is much stronger.
		You've said you don't think the BBC should, should do Big Brother, but obviously when you were at Channel 4 you thought it was all right for Channel 4 to do Big Brother and you put it on, or you inherited it, but you still put it on.
	212.58.240.36 /2/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/3649370.stm (1734 words)

	Mark_Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, and a former chief executive of Channel 4.
		In April 2000 he became BBC director of television, but left the corporation in March 2002 to become chief executive of Channel 4.
		The decision to appoint Thompson Director-General was made unanimously by the BBC Board of Governors, headed by new Chairman Michael Grade (another former chief executive of Channel 4).
	www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=Mark_Thompson (330 words)

	Director-General of the BBC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Director-General is chief executive and editor-in-chief of the BBC.
		The position is appointed by Board of Governors of the BBC.
		The BBC press office's biographical list of its Directors General
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Director-General_of_the_BBC (87 words)

	Indiantelevision dot com's CEO Speak- a speech by BBC director general Greg Dyke to the Emmy Board
		And yet the BBC works and is a much loved and respected organisation in Britain and around the world, producing some wonderful, meaningful programmes.
		And second, the BBC's Royal Charter, a piece of government legislation which allows the BBC to exist and collect the licence fee, is up for review in 2006 - and whilst that may seem like a long time away the government is kicking off the consultation process next month.
		Looking at the growth in demand for BBC News in the United States before and during the Iraq war, there is clearly a demand here for reporting and analysis which isn't afraid to reflect all sides.
	www.indiantelevision.com /special/y2k3/greg_dyke.htm (2782 words)

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