Tony Hall announced his shock decision to stand down as BBC director general on Monday, sparking what is likely to be a six-month race to be his successor. A job advert is already being prepared by the BBC board and prospective candidates will likely be dusting off their resumes for one of the most prestigious roles in British media.
Whoever prospers will walk into the BBC’s headquarters in central London to a bulging in-tray of priorities. Hall’s successor will have to negotiate the BBC’s future funding and operating agreement with, what appears to be, a hostile government, emboldened by Boris Johnson’s thumping election win last year.
Other priorities include building on Hall’s legacy of launching BBC Studios as a commercial entity, developing radio, music and podcast app BBC Sounds, and cleaning up a messy equal pay dispute that has become a protracted and toxic problem under the current director general.
Whoever prospers will walk into the BBC’s headquarters in central London to a bulging in-tray of priorities. Hall’s successor will have to negotiate the BBC’s future funding and operating agreement with, what appears to be, a hostile government, emboldened by Boris Johnson’s thumping election win last year.
Other priorities include building on Hall’s legacy of launching BBC Studios as a commercial entity, developing radio, music and podcast app BBC Sounds, and cleaning up a messy equal pay dispute that has become a protracted and toxic problem under the current director general.
- 1/20/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: While talk of direct-to-consumer streaming and the M&a climate is in the air at Allen & Co.’s annual retreat in Sun Valley, the actual day-by-day agenda includes sessions reaching far beyond the media racket.
Cybersecurity, foreign affairs, education, Brexit and the human brain will all be explored in the confab that officially began today, according to a day-by-day schedule obtained by Deadline. Gayle King of CBS News will interview U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. More directly related to the media-business realm are sessions involving commissioners of five major professional sports leagues and separate ones featuring Bill Gates, Liberty Media chairman John Malone, and current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Conference programming fills the morning hours of the week, with afternoons and evenings generally reserved for private meetings or recreation. Media, famously, is kept at a distance from the invite-only gathering, which has been held in the...
Cybersecurity, foreign affairs, education, Brexit and the human brain will all be explored in the confab that officially began today, according to a day-by-day schedule obtained by Deadline. Gayle King of CBS News will interview U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. More directly related to the media-business realm are sessions involving commissioners of five major professional sports leagues and separate ones featuring Bill Gates, Liberty Media chairman John Malone, and current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Conference programming fills the morning hours of the week, with afternoons and evenings generally reserved for private meetings or recreation. Media, famously, is kept at a distance from the invite-only gathering, which has been held in the...
- 7/9/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Tim Cook, Lachlan Murdoch, Shari Redstone, Brian Roberts, Mark Zuckerberg and Bob Iger are among the media and technology moguls who will be touching down in Sun Valley, Idaho, in July for Allen & Co.’s annual media conference.
The invite-only confab is a chance for the one-percent of the one-percent to break out their windbreakers and jeans, and give the power suits a rest while biking and hiking in alpine splendor. It’s also historically been the locus of deal-making. Comcast’s purchase of NBC/Universal, the Washington Post’s sale to Jeff Bezos and Disney’s pact for Capital Cities/ABC were all hatched at Sun Valley. The conference was also the birthplace of some less successful mergers, namely AOL’s disastrous marriage to Time Warner.
In recent years, as technology and streaming have upended the traditional entertainment business, the biggest stars at Sun Valley have hailed from Silicon Valley.
The invite-only confab is a chance for the one-percent of the one-percent to break out their windbreakers and jeans, and give the power suits a rest while biking and hiking in alpine splendor. It’s also historically been the locus of deal-making. Comcast’s purchase of NBC/Universal, the Washington Post’s sale to Jeff Bezos and Disney’s pact for Capital Cities/ABC were all hatched at Sun Valley. The conference was also the birthplace of some less successful mergers, namely AOL’s disastrous marriage to Time Warner.
In recent years, as technology and streaming have upended the traditional entertainment business, the biggest stars at Sun Valley have hailed from Silicon Valley.
- 5/29/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Financial Times has declined to retract an interview that one Ft publication says its reporters had with ousted CBS CEO Les Moonves last month — even though a spokesperson for the disgraced media mogul denied he ever spoke to the outlet.
The Ft’s corporate governance news service Agenda made headlines with its Dec. 19 story, in which a person identified as Moonves insisted that the fight about his $120 million severance pay was “far from over” despite his firing for cause days earlier.
But the executive disputed that the interview even took place. “Mr. Moonves did not speak with reporters from Agenda in December 2018 or at any other time,” his spokesperson said in a statement, adding that the exec had asked for a retraction. “Any suggestion that he did is without any factual basis whatsoever.”
In an editor’s note added this month at the bottom of Stephanie Forshee and Jennifer...
The Ft’s corporate governance news service Agenda made headlines with its Dec. 19 story, in which a person identified as Moonves insisted that the fight about his $120 million severance pay was “far from over” despite his firing for cause days earlier.
But the executive disputed that the interview even took place. “Mr. Moonves did not speak with reporters from Agenda in December 2018 or at any other time,” his spokesperson said in a statement, adding that the exec had asked for a retraction. “Any suggestion that he did is without any factual basis whatsoever.”
In an editor’s note added this month at the bottom of Stephanie Forshee and Jennifer...
- 1/9/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg and the Financial Times said they would no longer take part in a much-anticipated Saudi investment conference, the latest media organizations to withdraw from the event following the disappearance of dissident columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
The At&T-owned cable-news outlet and the financial newspaper, owned by Japan’s Nikkei, had been named as media partners of the Future Investment Initiative, along with Bloomberg, Fox Business Network, and Al Aribiya News Channel. The event is scheduled to take place in Riyadh between Oct. 23 and Oct. 25. “CNN has withdrawn its participation in the Saudi Future Investment Initiative Conference,” the network said in a statement.
Others quickly followed. NBCUniversal’s CNBC has pulled out of its media partnership with the conference, a spokesman said. “The Financial Times will not be partnering with the Fii conference in Riyadh while the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains unexplained,” said Lionel Barber, the Ft’s editor,...
The At&T-owned cable-news outlet and the financial newspaper, owned by Japan’s Nikkei, had been named as media partners of the Future Investment Initiative, along with Bloomberg, Fox Business Network, and Al Aribiya News Channel. The event is scheduled to take place in Riyadh between Oct. 23 and Oct. 25. “CNN has withdrawn its participation in the Saudi Future Investment Initiative Conference,” the network said in a statement.
Others quickly followed. NBCUniversal’s CNBC has pulled out of its media partnership with the conference, a spokesman said. “The Financial Times will not be partnering with the Fii conference in Riyadh while the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains unexplained,” said Lionel Barber, the Ft’s editor,...
- 10/12/2018
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
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