The in-tray for the next director general of the BBC is already piled high.
Tony Hall did a good job in stabilising the ship after the crisis caused by the Jimmy Savile revelations, and he has presided over the BBC in an amiable way over the past seven years. But the corporation is facing some of the toughest issues in its almost 100 years of history – and it has the fight of its life for its funding, relevance and reputation. One very senior former executive put it this way today: “The Beeb is in a surprisingly weak place at present and it urgently needs courage, vision and, above all, a fresh, original, striking and bold take on its role.”
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