Gary Winston Lineker is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer. Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs:Leicester City,Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. He also played for Barcelona in Spain,and won 80 caps for England. His media career began with the BBC,where he has presented the flagship football programme Match of the Day since the late 1990s,the longest tenure of any MOTD presenter. Lineker is also the BBC's lead presenter for live football matches,including coverage of international tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup. He has also worked for Al Jazeera Sports,Eredivisie Live,NBC Sports Network,and BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions League.
The director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and editor-in-chief of the BBC.
Newsnight is the BBC's news and current affairs programme,providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines. It is broadcast weeknights at 22:30 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel;it is also available on BBC iPlayer.
Match of the Day is a football highlights programme,typically broadcast on BBC One on Saturday nights,during the Premier League season. The show's current presenter is former England international striker Gary Lineker,with regular analysis from fellow former players Alan Shearer and Ian Wright,and occasional relief analysts such as Micah Richards,Danny Murphy,Martin Keown,and Dion Dublin.
Dame Jennifer Gita Abramsky,,is a British media producer,philanthropist and Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. She was chairman of the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF). Until her retirement from the BBC,Abramsky was its most senior woman employee;she was Director of Audio and Music.
This article outlines,in chronological order,the various controversies surrounding or involving the BBC.
Timothy David Gardam is a British journalist,media executive and educator. He was Director of Television at Channel 4 until 2003,after which he was Principal of St Anne's College,Oxford until 2016. He is Chief Executive of the Nuffield Foundation.
Anthony William Hall,Baron Hall of Birkenhead,is a British life peer. He was Director-General of the BBC between April 2013 and August 2020,and chaired the board of trustees of the National Gallery from September 2020 to May 2021.
The BBC Trust was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2007 and 2017. It was operationally independent of BBC management and external bodies,and its stated aim was to make decisions in the best interests of licence-fee payers. On 12 May 2016,it was announced in the House of Commons that,under the next royal charter,the regulatory functions of the BBC Trust were to be transferred to Ofcom.
Dawn Elizabeth Airey is a British media executive,sports administrator and independent company director.
Angus Stickler was the lead reporter for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism until his resignation in December 2012. In 2006 he was named News Journalist of the Year at the 24th Sony Radio Academy Awards. In 2011 he won the UACES/Thomson Reuters Reporting Europe prize for the Bureau's investigation into EU structural funds. In 2011 he won an Amnesty International Media Award for his work on the Bureau's website.
This is a list of events that took place in 2012 related to British television.
This is a list of events in British radio during 2012.
George Edward Entwistle is a former broadcasting executive,who was Director-General of the BBC during 2012,succeeding Mark Thompson. After a career in magazine journalism,he joined BBC Television in 1989,becoming a producer with a primary focus on factual and political programmes. He rose to become the director of BBC Vision,and became the Director-General of the BBC on 17 September 2012.
In 2012 and 2013,the British Broadcasting Corporation was involved in a series of investigations,accusations and scandals related to sexual abuse committed by employees,and the reporting of allegations of abuse by others. The issue of child sexual abuse by BBC employees was publicised nationally in October 2012 as part of the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal. Savile was a radio DJ and TV personality who presented the programmes Top of the Pops,Jim'll Fix It and Clunk Click,and was a well known charity fundraiser. Allegations of sexual abuse by Savile and other BBC employees were reported to have taken place in a number of locations across the country,including BBC Television Centre.
Charlotte Alexandra Moore is a British television executive who is the BBC's Chief Content Officer. She was appointed to this role in September 2020,having been Director of Content since early 2016 when she assumed responsibility for all of the BBC's television channels after the controller posts were abolished. Moore was Controller of BBC One from 2013 to 2016,in the position of which she was reported to be in charge of a budget of more than £1 billion.
This is a list of events that took place in 2015 related to British television.
Tony Danker is a British lobbyist and former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) from November 2020 to March 2023.
"An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales" is an episode of the BBC documentary series Panorama which was broadcast on BBC1 on 20 November 1995. The 54-minute programme saw Diana,Princess of Wales,interviewed by journalist Martin Bashir about her relationship with her husband,Charles,Prince of Wales,and the reasons for their subsequent separation. The programme was watched by nearly 23 million viewers in the UK. The worldwide audience was estimated at 200 million across 100 countries. In the UK,the National Grid reported a 1,000 MW surge in demand for power after the programme. At the time,the BBC hailed the interview as the scoop of a generation.
Richard Simon Sharp is a British former banker who became chairman of the BBC in February 2021. Following the findings of the Heppinstall inquiry into the appointment process,Sharp submitted his resignation to the BBC Board and to the Culture Secretary,which took effect at the end of June 2023.
