Who will the next DG be ?

[french frank]

my money - Davie will get DG on management skills

He has marketing skills rather than conventional management skills - but maybe they think that's what the BBC needs at the moment.

[LHC]

The last thing the BBC needs is for another faceless apparatchik to be appointed. They tried that with Entwistle and, as we all know now, that proved to be disastrous.

Patten's days as Chairman are also surely numbered after signing off Entwistle's extremely generous golden handshake.

I suspect that the Trustees will want to bring in two new outsiders to cast a fresh eye over the BBC's labyrinthine management structures and try and improve things.

They could do worse than someone like Eliza Manningham-Buller as Chair of the Trust. The DG will have to have broadcast experience, but not necessarily in the BBC. Might they consider a non-Brit?

Someone suggested Rusbridger earlier, but I doubt he would be a realistic option. For many on the right, the BBC is already too closely aligned with the Guardian and an appointment like that would confirm all their worst fears and would he accept the necessary cut in salary?

I also doubt that James Murdoch or Kelvin MacKenzie would be given serious consideration (2 other names that have been bandied about elsewhere).

Dimbleby appeared to be putting his case forward on the Today programme this morning, Another possibility might be Andrew Neill, who has relevant experience having run Sky in its early years.

[Serial_Apologist]

Another possibility might be Andrew Neill, who has relevant experience having run Sky in its early years.

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[amateur51]

Oh please god N-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have no fear, S_A - news just in from a science lab near you. Scientists have successfully created a new Lord Reith using DNA, stem cells, a viciously cold draught and a hard mattress. He's sitting up, taking some light beef tea and my informant tells me he's seen the news and is spitting tacks

Stand by yourrrrr beds now!

[cloughie]

Greg Dyke would be my choice!

[amateur51]

Greg Dyke would be my choice!

Mine too but he's been out of the loop a long time and maybe he's enjoying his lower key life. I wouldn't blame him of he was.

Lord Reith says "Grrreg Whooooo?!"

[cloughie]

Mine too but he's been out of the loop a long time and maybe he's enjoying his lower key life. I wouldn't blame him of he was.

Lord Reith says "Grrreg Whooooo?!"

At 65 he probably is - but then he's considerably younger than either Dimbleby.

[amateur51]

At 65 he probably is - but then he's considerably younger than either Dimbleby.

So am I at nearly 61 but I don't fancy his job either

[Serial_Apologist]

So am I at nearly 61 but I don't fancy his job either

Shame - we could do with another Dyke

[Paul Sherratt]

" spitting tacks"
At his mistress ?

[scottycelt]

So am I at nearly 61 but I don't fancy his job either

Don't tell the BBC that, amsey, as Patten might then think you possess just the qualities it needs to appoint you ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

A man who was believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade has been able to answer questions from scientists and tell them he was not in any pain.

Indie

just the chappie eh ....

[MrGongGong]

King Kennytone ?

[Serial_Apologist]

just the chappie eh ....

Inaccessible to viewers on BBC Parliament too, apparently...

[Russ]

Tony Hall.