Mr Thompson was too dominant within the corporation and suggested that the director general should face greater internal scrutiny on whether he was worth his annual remuneration package of £834,000.
said the BBC's programming was "in pretty good shape" but the way management was handling the reshaping of the corporation had failed staff.
It is a good job, and Mark earns more than twice what I earned when I was doing it. The staff are whingeing. Mark is doing some great things, but he is not taking them with him."
Mark Thompson, the Director-General, will admit that the corporation, which is funded by the £3.6 billion annual licence fee, has become too large and must shrink to give its commercial rivals room to operate.
It will be seen as an attempt to show a potential Tory government that the BBC understands the effect the deep advertising recession has had on commercial rivals and that it does not need outside intervention to get its house in order.
the total cost of the high earners' salaries was the equivalent of the television licence fees paid by 400,000 households.
“some merits in having OFCOM regulate the BBC”, the Tories would “stick with the BBC charter until 2016
they would want to “give people who pay for the BBC an independent body that they complain to if they’re unhappy with the way the money is being spent.”
An incoming Conservative government would scrap the BBC Trust,and create a new body answerable to licence fee payers.adding
The party believes that the changes, which can be carried out within the boundaries of the BBC’s Royal Charter, would give Mr Thompson a “cheerleading chairman” and allow the revamped trust to play more effectively its key role of representing the interests of those who pay £142.50 a year for the BBC’s services.
O’Reilly, 52, an award-winning journalist who spent 25 years at the BBC, lodged papers at London Central employment tribunal last week, claiming that the corporation discriminated against her on grounds of sex and age.adding that
She also alleges victimisation, because she has not been given further work by the BBC after staff at the corporation made unfounded claims that she leaked stories to newspapers about internal discontent over the removal of the women, who were replaced by the former Watchdog host Julia Bradbury, 36, and Matt Baker, 32.
The BBC is considering the sale of its magazine division, which produces 50 titles, after being ordered to curb its money-making activities.
a victory for those of us who thought that Ross’s obscene phone calls to Andrew Sachs, and the BBC’s decision to broadcast them, marked an all-time low in the story of our cultural decline.in his Telegraph column this morning
We suffer from a peculiar decadence in which our cosseted Establishment grovels to whatever it thinks is “subversive” or “cutting-edge”.
Ross is leaving the BBC in July this year, so at that point, but not before, I shall renew. It will be amusing to see if the enforcement bureaucracy pays any attention to what is happening, or just plugs on, chasing me for my “year out”.
£25,000 to send a remote-controlled model helicopter equipped with a camera flying over Broadcasting House for just two minutesand
a photographer who was paid £70,000 to take pictures of those involved in refurbishing the building and three artists who received £24,000 between them to design “wraps” to hide the project’s scaffolding.accused
lowering the bitrate of its HD encoding technology from 16 megabytes to 9.7MB.
The BBC has been accused of stifling the criticism by closing user forums on its websites that contained negative comments from viewers. Forums that have been re-opened have been bombarded with fresh responses filling page after page. Viewers who claim they have been "fobbed off" have contacted the BBC Trust, demanding that it investigates the problem.
Two people close to the early-stage discussions told the Financial Times that Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse were part of the advisory process. The banks declined to comment. Two other people close to the BBC confirmed that any flotation was unlikely before the end of 2010 at the earliest.
Worldwide, which operates 23 television channels in more than 100 countries and sells BBC branded magazines, Lonely Planet travel guides, merchandise and programme formats, had revenues of £1bn in 2008-09 and an operating profit of £112m before exceptional costs.
our developers have done a bit of work to allow journalists the scope to create two headlines for a story if they want to - a short one which appears on the front page and our other website indexes, and a longer one which will appear on the story page itself and in search engine results.
The front page headlines will remain limited to between 31 and 33 characters and will continue to appear on Ceefax and Digital Text, as they do now, along with the top four paragraphs of each story.
The UK Radioplayer, due for launch early next year, is a pop-up console which will be open to stream more than 400 licensed national, local, community and student radio stations, offering a unique, constantly updated live and on-demand audio service.
We have allocated the money. We have published the guidelines. We have given everyone a blank sheet of paper. And now it's up to the creative teams from Newcastle to Crewe to blow us away with some fantastic ideas. The BBC can be the platform that shares the brilliant work already being done across the North with audiences throughout the UK.
Alex Gubbay, who is currently news editor for BBC Sport Interactive will take on this new role in January, co-ordinating the work of correspondents and reporters using social media tools, and ensuring best practice is developed and shared within the BBC.writes Sam Taylor, the editor of Newswire.
He will manage the existing user generated content hub within BBC Newswire, making the most of news stories suggested by users, as well as their case studies, photographs, videos and comments, across our website, and on TV and radio. The new role is being funded by redistributing money within BBC Newsroom.
Alex will have a particular focus on developing new ways for audiences to have their say on stories being covered by BBC News, and he will be blogging here frequently in the New Year.
