Corporation’s new director general will need all his commercial savvy to navigate choppy watersBBC appoints insider Tim Davie as director generalTim Davie, who was announced on Friday as the BBC’s new director general, had a taste of the top role eight years ago, following the resignation of George Entwistle during the Jimmy Savile crisis.
This stint, which lasted a matter of months until the arrival of Tony Hall, was brief but eventful. He dealt with the fallout from a Newsnight report that wrongly accused the Tory peer Lord McAlpine of child sex abuse.