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Lord Patten's email announcing Lord Hall as new BBC director general

Source: Guardian Unlimited, Nov 22 2012, 6:38am CST

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Tony Hall – Lord Hall of Birkenhead – is the current chief executive of the Royal Opera House Tony Hall is the new director general of the BBC Photograph: Luke Macgregor/REUTERS This email is going ...

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8 hours ago

Must this show go on?

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 24 2013, 2:20pm CDT

Welcome to the Beebers, an everyday story of wasteful metropolitan folk. In the latest instalment, Lord Hall – the new boss – has noticed that the geeks in the basement appear to have wasted £100 million and counting on s ...

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8 hours ago

Digital production system was £98m shambles

Source: Radio New Zealand  |   May 24 2013, 1:56pm CDT

The BBC has scrapped a £98.4 million digital production system. The Digital Media Initiative was set up in 2008, but was halted last autumn having never become fully operational. An independent inquiry has been ord ...

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26 weeks ago


Quote:
"I believe Tony Hall is the right person to lead the BBC out of its current crisis and help rebuild public trust in the organisation"


Source: Guardian Unlimited

 

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8 hours ago

BBC admits wasting £98MILLION of licence fee payers' cash on scrapped digital scheme

Source: Mirror.co.uk  |   May 24 2013, 1:53pm CDT

The BBC today admitted wasting £98.4million in licence fee payers’ cash on a hi-tech digital production system scrapped by their new boss Tony Hall. The corporation’s chief technology officer John Linwood – who earns £280,000 ...

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12 hours ago

BBC cans tapeless Digital Media Initiative

Source: ITPro  |   May 24 2013, 9:42am CDT

The BBC has scrapped its £98.4 million Digital Media Initiative (DMI) and suspended its chief technology officer on full pay. The project was intended to make it easier for staff to find and retrieve video footage from their computers and was ...

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13 hours ago

BBC director general's email on the Digital Media Initiative: full text

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 24 2013, 9:26am CDT

This email is going to everyone Following a review of the Digital Media Initiative (DMI), we have decided to stop the project in its current form. Since 2010, we will have spent £98.4m on DMI. Today's decision means that we are writing-off ...

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15 hours ago

BBC axes digital archive that has wasted £98m

Source: This Is London  |   May 24 2013, 7:27am CDT

The BBC has scrapped a multi-million-pound attempt to create an internal digital archive after director general Tony Hall said the scheme had “wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers’ money”. The Digital Media Initiat ...

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15 hours ago

BBC Axes Digital Initiative, Saying It 'Wasted a Huge Amount' of Money

Source: Hollywood Reporter  |   May 24 2013, 7:09am CDT

The BBC said Friday that it is axing a $149 million (£98.4 million) technology project, which was set to make all production and archive operations fully digital. A review launched in October found that the so-called Digit ...

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15 hours ago

BBC scraps Digital Media Initiative after spending £98.4m on a revamped archive and production tools

Source: The Next Web  |   May 24 2013, 6:35am CDT

The decision follows an operational review of the project, launched in October last year, which found that the project was failing to achieve its current targets. Tony Hall, Director-General for the BBC, said the Digital Medi ...

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16 hours ago

BBC shuts down its £98m technology project

Source: Computer Business Review  |   May 24 2013, 6:28am CDT

The BBC has closed its multimillion pound Digital Media Initiative (DMI) that was meant to create new digital production tools and link them with a central, digital archive that would allow BBC staff to access a seamless digital chain throughout the pr ...

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