Information about Director General Of The Bbc

The Director-General is chief executive and (from 1944) editor-in-chief of the BBC. The position was formerly appointed by Board of Governors of the BBC and is now appointed by the BBC Trust.

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or chief executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency.
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Advocacy journalism
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Type Broadcast radio and television
Country  United Kingdom
Availability    National
International 
Founder John Reith
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The Board of Governors of the BBC was a group of twelve people who together regulated the BBC and represented the interests of the public, in particular those of viewers and listeners. It existed from 1927 until it was replaced by the BBC Trust on 1 January 2007.
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The BBC Trust is a body that oversees the BBC, being independent of BBC management and external bodies. Along with an Executive Board, the Trust took over the role of the old Board of Governors on 1 January 2007.
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Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith KT GCVO GBE CB TD PC (20 July 1889–16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
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1924 1925 1926 - 1927 - 1928 1929 1930

Year 1927 (MCMXXVII
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1935 1936 1937 - 1938 - 1939 1940 1941

Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII
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Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie (7 February 1893 – 10 June 1949) was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 (aged 45) to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Director-Generals Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot. He was knighted on 10 June 1942.
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Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII
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1939 1940 1941 - 1942 - 1943 1944 1945

Year 1942 (MCMXLII
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Captain Sir Cecil George Graves KCMG MC (4 March 1892 – January 2 1957) was joint Director-General of the BBC with Robert W. Foot from January 26 1942 (aged 51) to September 6 1943.
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Robert William Foot OBE (7 June 1889 – 2 April 1973) was Director-General of the BBC, first jointly with Cecil Graves from January 26 1942 to September 6 1943 and then solely until he resigned on March 31 1944.
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Year 1942 (MCMXLII
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1940 1941 1942 - 1943 - 1944 1945 1946

Year 1943 (MCMXLIII
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Robert William Foot OBE (7 June 1889 – 2 April 1973) was Director-General of the BBC, first jointly with Cecil Graves from January 26 1942 to September 6 1943 and then solely until he resigned on March 31 1944.
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1939 1940 1941 - 1942 - 1943 1944 1945

Year 1942 (MCMXLII
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1941 1942 1943 - 1944 - 1945 1946 1947

Year 1944 (MCMXLIV
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Sir William John Haley (May 24, 1901 - September 6, 1987) was a British newspaper editor and broadcasting administrator.

Early in his career on the Manchester Evening News, Haley was found to be too shy to work as a reporter. He was then transferred to subediting.
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1941 1942 1943 - 1944 - 1945 1946 1947

Year 1944 (MCMXLIV
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Year 1952 (MCMLII
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Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Ian Claud Jacob (27 September 1899 - 24 April 1993), known as Ian Jacob, was the Military Assistant Secretary to Winston Churchill's war cabinet and later a distinguished broadcasting executive, serving as the Director-General of the BBC from
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1949 1950 1951 - 1952 - 1953 1954 1955

Year 1952 (MCMLII
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1956 1957 1958 - 1959 - 1960 1961 1962

Year 1959 (MCMLIX
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Sir Hugh Carleton Greene KCMG, OBE (15 November 1910 - 19 February 1987) was an British journalist and television executive. He was the director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of
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1957 1958 1959 - 1960 - 1961 1962 1963

Year 1960 (MCMLX
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1966 1967 1968 - 1969 - 1970 1971 1972

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Sir Charles John Curran (13 October 1921 – 9 January 1980), was an English television executive.

He was born in Dublin. He served in the Indian army from 1942-45, but left to work in the BBC Talks department.
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1966 1967 1968 - 1969 - 1970 1971 1972

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1974 1975 1976 - 1977 - 1978 1979 1980

Also: 1977 (album) by Ash.

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