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Media
BBC deputy chief to go
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 12 October 2010
Mark Byford, the BBC’s often controversial Deputy Director General, is to be made redundant, the highest profile casualty in the Beeb’s bid to convince government and unions that its efforts to reduce costs will include cuts at all levels, including the top.
Having spent his entire career at the BBC, Byford isn’t by nature a controversial figure, and he won some praise when he competently stepped in as a temporary Director General after then top man Greg Dyke resigned over the whole Hutton Inquiry hoo haa.
But with a salary package nearing half a million a year, Byford is the most highly paid of that significant group of senior BBC execs who just aren’t really needed. Certainly no commercial broadcaster would have a comparable exec on such a high wage. Byford didn’t do much to counter his critics by running up considerable unnecessary expenses bills.
BBC top man Mark Thompson announced this morning that Byford will leave the Corporation next year. He will not be replaced.
