When eight years ago an internal crisis propelled the then head of BBC Worldwide, Tim Davie, into the job of acting BBC director general, he was criticized for not wearing a tie. The criticism didn…
The criticism didn’t stick and Davie, now CEO of BBC Studios and director of global, is emerging as the favored candidate to replaceUnder ordinary circumstances, the announcement of Hall’s successor should have been imminent, but the coronavirus pandemic appears to have put the brakes on the recruitment process.
Incredibly, despite being the most important job in British broadcasting the role pays a mere £400,000 — peanuts compared with what commercial media bosses earn. If Davie, for example, is successful in getting the job, he’ll have to stomach a considerable pay cut from his estimated £642,000 salary.Nevertheless, the power and prestige of running the BBC remains considerable.
Lewis’s chances are unlikely to have been helped by accusations in the British High Court, revealed Wednesday, that he aided the concealment and destruction of millions of emails relating to phone hacking at the Murdoch-owned U.K. newspapers, the News of the World and the Sun.
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