Michael Crick
Family politics of BBC frontrunner’s family politics
Channel 4 News political correspondent, Michael Crick, on the family connections between the frontrunner for the director-general of the BBC and the House of Lords
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BBC to conduct Jimmy Savile sex allegations inquiry
BBC Director-General George Entwistle promises an investigation into alleged sexual abuse by the late radio DJ Sir Jimmy Savile.
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Savile, Freddie Starr and BBC inaction on child safety
As the BBC’s director-general apologises, Jimmy Savile’s former producer tells Channel 4 News nobody from the corporation has contacted him, despite the fact he worked for the star for 21 years.
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Michael Crick
The Boadens – will it be a DG & PCC double act?
2012 could be a interesting year for the Boaden family reports Michael Crick.
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Michael Crick
The politics of the next BBC director-general
Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick examines the politics, or possible politics, of the runners and riders in the race to be next director-general of the BBC.
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Channel 4 wins racing rights from BBC
Channel 4 wins the rights to show the Grand National, Royal Ascot and the Epsom Derby meaning it will be the exclusive broadcaster of British racing on terrestrial television.
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The Old Trouts, living up to Marie Colvin's legacy
There’s a lot of fuss at the moment about female war correspondents as if we were some kind of recently discovered species. Yet we’ve been around a while. Lyse Doucet of the BBC and I call those of our vintage the “Old Trouts Club”. Most of us are in our 40s and 50s, although Dame Ann Leslie is certainly a member and she’s more than 70.
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FactCheck: PM tells BBC to ‘go back to school’ over AV
The claim “I have a second preference as well as you, as well as Justin here, or anybody else – and you count them again as well.” John Humphrys, presenter, BBC Radio 4 Today programme, May 3, 2011
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BBC strike is sign of things to come
Today’s BBC strike is a “foretaste of things to come” as budget cuts hit the national broadcaster, former Channel 5 Chief Executive David Elstein tells Channel 4 News.
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BBC News staff begin strike
BBC TV and radio news programmes were disrupted today after thousands of staff went on strike in a pensions row. Channel 4 News looks at what programmes are on, and off.
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George Entwistle quizzed on BBC Savile crisis
The BBC director-general answers questions about the corporation’s handling of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse row.
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BBC to freeze licence fee
The BBC is to freeze the licence fee for the next six years and absorb the cost of the World Service as part of cuts agreed ahead of the government’s spending review, writes Siobhan Kennedy.
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BBC workers to strike in pensions row
Thousands of BBC staff members are set to stage two 48-hour strikes in a row over controversial plans for changes to their pensions – that could interrupt coverage of key political events.
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Gary Gibbon
Clegg rules out propping up 3rd place Brown
Nick Clegg rules out propping up Labour if the party comes third in share of the vote, while am intriguing new polling analysis from Peter Kellner suggests the Lib Dem surge would leave the Tories as the biggest party in a hung parliament.
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Gary Gibbon
PM wades into broadcasters’ pay row
The suited Whitehall types listening to the PM have been treated to a very political speech. He said a belief in the power of government as a “force for good” was in his DNA but not present in his opponents’ DNA.
