Will the BBC pick an outsider?

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There are some very strong external candidates for the post of BBC Director-General. This reflects the fact that the BBC has used head-hunters for the first time, indicating that it is seeking to establish greater accountability. Favoured candidates at present include BBC Television Director Alan Yentob, BBC World Service Chief Executive Mark Byford and Pearson Television Chmn Greg Dyke. However, it is difficult to predict who the new Director-General will be, as the BBC's governors are giving no clear indication about what they regard as being the BBC's future.

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Has announced search to fill position of BBC Director-General

Television Broadcasting, Television broadcasting industry, Recruiting

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I'm from the BBC. Start talking

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The BBC's 40 local radio stations are to each broadcast 16 half-hour programmes of stories by people from that particular area. These programmes represent only a small proportion of the total of 6,000 stories collected by the BBC in a project costing 1.3 million pounds sterling and representing the largest oral history ever undertaken. Each story has been preserved on mini-disc, and the complete recordings will be stored in the national sound archive at the British Library.

Services information, Other Sound Recording Industries, Radio Program Production, Management, Oral history, Radio programming services

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'It's a London thing,' but sadly for GLR, Londoners are not listening

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There are plans to broadcast less music and more speech on GLR, the BBC's radio station for London, England, according to BBC Head of Local and Regional Programmes, South East, Jane Mote. She believes that talk defines a radio station's character more effectively than music. She feels that the problem with GLR at present is that it lacks a marketing position, and recognizes that the review process must address this.

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