You couldn’t make it up: Rangers ban the BBC
The BBC were told they could not broadcast from Ibrox Stadium this week after they ran a story the club didn’t like.
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The BBC were told they could not broadcast from Ibrox Stadium this week after they ran a story the club didn’t like.
The BBC hits back at criticism from the London School of Economics which claims an undercover Panorama reporter put a group of its students at risk on a trip to North Korea.
The BBC will only play “four to five seconds” of Ding, Dong The Witch Is Dead – a big seller following the death of Baroness Thatcher – during this weekend’s Radio 1 Chart Show.
New BBC Director General Tony Hall tells Channel 4 News that the organisation has been through “a bad time” but that he wants to look to the future.
Amid growing alarm over the muzzling of the media in Sri Lanka, its state broadcaster has denied censorship in a row that has seen the suspension of BBC World Service broadcasts.
The BBC publishes 3,000 pages of documents in a bid to be “open and transparent” about its investigations into the Jimmy Savile scandal – but, as our editor Ben de Pear points out, issues remain.
Former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, and former head of Channel 5 head David Elstein discuss the BBC’s release of documents relating to the decision to not air and investigation into Jimmy Savile.
The BBC apologises for airing a children’s programme on Sunday in which a character dresses up as disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile.
The BBC launches a search for a new editor of Newsnight after the programme dropped a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades-long campaign of sexual abuse.
A report by MPs accuses the BBC of a “cavalier” attitude towards licence fee money over a £450,000 payoff to director general George Entwistle, in the wake of the corporation’s Jimmy Savile crisis.
As the Pollard review blames the Jimmy Savile Newsnight saga on “flawed” management, a separate report finds the BBC failed to apply its own standards to a subsequent report on alleged child abuse.
An inquiry into BBC Newsnight’s decision to drop a report about alleged sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile finds that the judgement was flawed and management were incapable of dealing with the issue.
BBC trust Chairman Chris Patten says that the Pollard report reveals how the BBC is filled with “different organisations that don’t talk to each other and that has to end”.
Bradley Wiggins tops off a golden year with the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award following his Tour de France victory and London 2012 Olympic gold success.
Tony Hall, Lord Hall of Birkenhead, is to be the new BBC director-general, taking up his post in March 2013. He replaces Tim Davie, who became acting DG following George Entwistle’s resignation.