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Tim Davie: BBC executive named director general
Jun 5, 2020
Tim Davie, one of the BBC's most senior executives, has been named the broadcaster's new director general.
Davie has been promoted from chief executive of BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary that sells BBC and other British programmes abroad.
He became acting director general after the resignation of George Entwistle in 2012, and will now replace Tony Hall.
His top priorities will include negotiating with the government about the future of the licence fee.
The TV licence system will stay in place until at least 2027, but the government is due to review the funding level from 2022 onwards.
Who is Tim Davie?
Davie is one of the corporation's longest-serving executives, joining from Pepsi to become director of the BBC's Marketing, Communications & Audiences division in 2005.
He then took over responsibility for radio stations including Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4 as director of the Audio & Music division in 2008.
Soon afterwards, he had to address the outcry by caused prank calls made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on Radio 2. The decision to shut 6 Music under his tenure, which was later reversed, also brought scrutiny.
A month after being named chief executive of the corporation's commercial arm BBC Worldwide in 2012, he stepped in to become acting director general after Entwistle's short-lived tenure.
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