The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Mark Thompson: The problems for public service broadcasting are real and urgent. But the Ofcom answer won't do
Times Online (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC, today slammed a suggestion that BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm, could be gifted to Channel 4 to plug a funding gap of up to £150 million.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
TV News: Berlin event runs Aug. 29-Sept. 5 -- Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, will give a keynote address at next week’s Medienwoche media confab in Berlin, which runs Aug. 29-Sept. 5.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Mark Thompson, Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), praises here on Saturday the "exciting" opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and a China increasingly open to the world. "I guess every opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is amazing, but everything I've seen and heard last night is the most dramatic, exciting and impressive in the history of the Olympic Games." said...
National Secular Society (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Stephen Green, the founder of the fundamentalist Christian Voice group, has offered the BBC about a third of its costs after he failed in an attempt to prosecute the Director-General Mark Thompson for blasphemy after he broadcast Jerry Springer – the Opera on BBC2. The BBC wants the full costs of £55,000.
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
As we and several others forecast back in April, BBC future media and technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers has just been confirmed in the director post, replacing Ashley Highfield on August 1 . BBC DG Mark Thompson (via the release ): "Erik has been a very strong group controller (of) FM&T for the last year. He has shown tremendous commitment championing the iPlayer amongst many other projects."...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
BBC director general Mark Thompson rebuffs suggestions that the corporation should reduce its output.
Raedwald (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
Mark Thompson makes a disingenuous plea for the continued financing of the BBC in this morning's Telegraph; "there would be no BBC Proms" he whines. Quite true. They would become the HSBC Proms or the BAe Proms or somesuch. For the rest of his litany of losses, frankly, I could do without the vast majority of them. In an age of personalised choice and pay-on-demand, the BBC's monopoly is very difficult...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Huge pay hikes for BBC executives rewarded even when they mess up, below inflation rises for staff and guess who's being asked to take on ever more responsibility? BBC Director General Mark Thompson said bosses in the private sector would roll on the floor laughing at the comparatively low levels of BBC Executive's pay. He described the £400,000-plus salaries as just a tiny patch on what others...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Yes MARK THOMPSON, BBC director general
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
In his defence of the bonuses paid to BBC executives, the director general of the corporation, Mark Thompson, yesterday resorted to humour.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Mark Thompson, the BBC’s Director-General, and his nine most senior colleagues had their combined pay boosted by 17 per cent last year while they presided over a string of phone-in and fakery scandals.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Send your questions to Mark Thompson
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The BBC has been eulogising its veteran broadcaster Sir Charles Wheeler, who died on Friday at 85. Mark Thompson, the director-general, described him as “utterly irreplaceable”. Some of Thompson’s predecessors would have replaced Wheeler all too quickly if they could, however. For he never hid his scorn for the Beeb’s panjandrums, blaming the organisation’s many problems on their contempt for their...
The Freethinker (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
STEPHEN “Birdshit” Green has launched an on-line petition, calling on the BBC’s Mark Thompson and Jonathan Thoday, producer of Jerry Springer: The Opera, to waive the £90,000 court costs awarded against him after his abortive attempt to prosecute the two men for blasphemy. But so far, alas, the petition ain’t going too good. As of this [...]
