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	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)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Former Director of the BBC, Greg Dyke PBS
		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.
		Former Director of the BBC, Greg Dyke
		The Chancellor is the formal head of the university, whose official duties are to confer degrees on behalf of the university, and to chair the University's Court.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/dyke.html (291 words)

	BBC shake-up to mean job losses
		Mr Thompson was appointed as director general of the BBC in March, succeeding Greg Dyke who resigned in the wake of the Hutton Report.
		BBC director general Mark Thompson will announce an overhaul of the corporation on Tuesday leading to the loss of thousands of jobs.
		Gerry Morrissey, assistant general secretary of the broadcasting workers' union Bectu, said he hoped the BBC would put more money into production, technical skills and news as part of its review.
	homepage.mac.com /okkibokki/iblog/B377254671/C757815582/E2117085418 (573 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)

	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)

	icSouthlondon - BBC appoints acting Director General
		The BBC governors thanked Director General Greg Dyke and former chairman Gavyn Davies for serving the public with "strong and dynamic" leadership.
		A statement issued by the acting chairman Lord Ryder of Wensum on behalf of the board of governors said: "Greg Dyke, the Director General, has tendered his resignation to the Board of Governors and this has been accepted.
		Both roles are essential to a strong and independent BBC and it is important that the vacancies created by the departures of Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke are filled as soon as possible and with due care.
	icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/nationalnews/content_objectid=13870164_method=full_siteid=50100_headline=-BBC-appoints-acting-Director-General-name_page.html (350 words)

	Scotsman.com News - The BBC
		MARK Thompson, the BBC's director-general, last night claimed that a new ultra-local news service planned for Scotland would "offer a richness of content" to television viewers and radio listeners.
		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.
		ONE of the BBC's longest-serving newsreaders has quit after 37 years with the corporation, saying...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=474&id=113862004 (455 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.
		Greg Dyke stated that the BBC had already apologised for errors within the management system after Hutton found fault with the accuracy of Andrew Gilligan’s report into the government’s September 2002 Iraq dossier.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=474&id=113862004 (470 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.
		Unlike Lord Hutton's inquiry, the two internal BBC procedures took evidence from Stephen Mitchell, the head of radio news, and Kevin Marsh, the editor of the Today programme, the two managers who were closest to Gilligan's story.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Media/site/story/0,14173,1243731,00.html (727 words)

	MediaGuardian.co.uk Media C4 chief who vowed to reject BBC interviewed for director general
		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.
		Jana Bennett, the director of television, touted earlier, is understood not to have thrown her hat into the ring.
		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)

	New BBC Director General: Your reaction
		The BBC confirms that the chief executive of Channel 4, Mark Thompson, is to become its new director general.
		Acting director general Mark Byford names the team to review BBC editorial policy as a result of the critical Hutton report.
		The BBC has confirmed that Channel 4's Mark Thompson is to become its new director general.
	www.stargeek.com /item/136416.html (963 words)

	eyes2eyes.com
		In the first half of the 1990s, under a new chairman of governors, Marmaduke Hussey (appointed in 1986), and new directors general Michael Checkland (from 1987) and then, from 1993, John Birt, the BBC has undergone a rapid and painful transformation.
		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.
		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.
	www.eyes2eyes.com /pointsdisplay01.cfm?id=112 (2033 words)

	Mark Thompson new BBC director general- Indiantelevision.com's Breaking News
		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.
		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.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/may/may183.htm (298 words)

	BBC's director general Dyke quits
		BBC's Director General Greg Dyke quit on Thursday as the news broadcaster's crisis deepened in the wake of Lord Hutton's verdict on its Iraq dossier report.
		BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan in a controversial report had said the BBC was aware before going into war with Iraq that there were no weapons of mass destruction in possession of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
		I had been warning the BBC via regular e-mails after watching their very partisan coverage of the Iraq war...They did not desist...Hence they more...
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/jan/29uk1.htm (187 words)

	[GB] Official Inquiry Leads to Resignation of Chairman and Director-General of the BBC
		Shortly after the report was published the Chairman of the Governors, Gavyn Davies, resigned, followed the next day by the Director-General, Greg Dyke and shortly afterwards by Andrew Gilligan.
		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)

	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 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.
		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.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/05/22/cache/202263.html (700 words)

	The acting director-general of the BBC has spoken of his hopes for a better relationship between the broadcaster and the regional press: Regional Journalism. www.HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk /behind/analysis/040506spe.shtml (545 words)

	Mark Thompson - BBC director-general
		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.
		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.
	theinternetforum.co.uk /bbc/directorgeneral1.html (179 words)

	Variety.com - BBC director general outlines pubcaster's 'vision'
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		In a speech to BBC staff Thursday, Dyke brandished a yellow card displaying the dictum that he said he will use during BBC meetings whenever he feels a good idea is being given short shrift.
		The card, which resembles those held up by referees to warn players during soccer matches, will be made available to anyone at the BBC who wants one.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117860396?categoryid=19&cs=1 (208 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.
		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.
		The BBC will appoint a new Director of the World Service who will report to Mr Byford.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/12_december/10/deputy_dg.shtml (561 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)

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

	BBC appoints new director-general. 22/05/2004. ABC News Online
		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.
		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.
	www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1113598.htm (355 words)

	Digital Spy: Thompson named as BBC Director-General
		The 46-year-old had previously worked at the BBC for 20 years - including two years as director of programmes - before jumping ship to C4 in December 2001.
		In a statement from the board, BBC Chairman Michael Grade said: "We were impressed by Mark Thompson's analysis of the challenges facing the BBC, and by his track record.
		The BBC board of governors reached a "unanimous" decision to appoint Thompson, who has now resigned from his position as chief executive of Channel 4.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /article/ds14534.html (254 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Email to BBC News staff
		The only contact the BBC had with No. 10 was to inform their press office robustly that we had every confidence in our coverage.
		There has not been a single example of me, Mark Byford, any of the other senior editors of the BBC, the BBC Chairman or anyone else inside the BBC trying to censor or soften anything.
		Using the recent row about John Humphrys as its 'evidence', the pieces claim that the BBC is muzzling its journalism in an effort to keep Government ministers happy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/email.shtml (1007 words)

	Mark Thompson, Director General of BBC
		The Director General of the BBC recommitted the organisation to religious broadcasting.
		Denis Blackledge SJ, Father Superior and Chaplain at Stonyhurst College hands over a Stonyhurst College plaque to former College pupil, Mark Thompson, Director General of the B.B.C
		Speaking at the Churches’ Media Conference, Mark Thompson also said he was looking at creative ways in which religion could be incorporated into other programmes.
	www.stonyhurst.ac.uk /printer_335.shtml (150 words)

	BBC NEWS Programmes Breakfast with Frost Director-General of the BBC
		I mean my, my task as Director General is to look at the BBC's journalism and I think it was exactly the right kind of story to be doing, the right story to pursue - mistakes were made though.
		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.
		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)

	BBC's Dyke Attacks US War Reporting
		BBC Director General Greg Dyke has attacked US TV coverage of the war in Iraq in a speech at the International Emmys in New York.
		The fact the BBC's own news services - BBC World and News 24 - had "doubled" their audiences in the US in the last year showed there was an audience for more impartial news, he said.
		In his speech, Mr Dyke quoted research that showed that of 840 commentators aired on US TV, only four were opposed to the war.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/1125-12.htm (517 words)

	RTE News - BBC appoint new director general
		Mark Thompson, chief executive of Britain's Channel 4 television, has been appointed director-general of the BBC.
		RTE News - BBC appoint new director general
		Mr Thompson, who is 46, takes the job which was held by Greg Dyke until he resigned in the aftermath of the Hutton report.
	www.rte.ie /news/2004/0521/bbc (56 words)

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