BBC Director-General(DG)Resigns -Nov 10,2012

After weeks of turmoil over the BBC’s coverage of a spreading paedophile scandal, the broadcaster’s director-general, George Entwistle, resigned on Nov 10,2012 Saturday night, bowing to a wave of condemnation by critics.














The resignation was prompted by outrage over a report last week on Newsnight, a flagship current affairs programmes, that wrongly implicated an ex-Conservative Party politician in a paedophile scandal involving a children’s home in Wales.

With the BBC’s chairman, Chris Patten, standing gloomily beside him, Entwistle said resigning was “the honorable thing to do.”

                                               

Chris Patten,BBC chairman, said Tim Davie,  the BBC’s director of audio and music, would become the acting director general.

Tony Hall is BBC’s New Director-General

Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House, was on Thursday Nov 22,2012 appointed the BBC’s new director-general to succeed George Entwistle who was forced to quit after being in office for just 54 days — paying the price for a story that wrongly implicated a senior Tory politician in a child abuse case

 Chris Patten, Chairman of the BBC, said Tony Hall, who worked for the corporation for more than two decades before moving to the Royal Opera House in 2001, was “the right person to lead the BBC out of its current crisis”.
Chris Patten, Chairman of the BBC,said that as an ex-BBC man,Tony Hall “understands how the corporation’s culture and behaviour make it, at its best, the greatest broadcaster in the world”.