Yahoo Web Search

  1. John Birt, Baron Birt

    John Birt, Baron Birt

    Former Director-General of the BBC

Search results

  1. John Birt, Baron Birt (born 10 December 1944) is a British television executive and businessman. He is a former Director-General (1992–2000) of the BBC.

  2. May 1, 2024 · John Birt, Baron Birt (born December 10, 1944, Liverpool, England) is a British businessman who heavily influenced the broadcasting industry by means of his attempts to reform and modernize the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

  3. Dec 1, 2013 · Why John Birt is the key to a coded battle over the BBC's future. Peter Preston. The great lost leader's expansionary vision is crucial to the debate about the corporation's role – but no one...

  4. People also ask

  5. No Birt, no BBC. Despite unpopularity with his staff, John Birt pushed through reforms that transformed the BBC. Peter Bazalgette on the the story of an unlikely revolutionary, The Harder...

  6. www.bbc.com › research › directors-generalJohn Birt - BBC

    John Birt (Lord Birt of Liverpool, Sir John, 1944-) was Director-General from 1992 to 2000. Birt's long career at London Weekend Television included producing World in Action and heading News...

  7. Jun 19, 2021 · When John Birt, former director general of the BBC, was still only 33, he pulled off an astonishing journalistic coup. As producer to David Frost, in 1977, he steered Richard Nixon into his...

  8. John Anthony Bird, Baron Bird MBE (born 30 January 1946), is a British social entrepreneur and life peer. He is best known as the co-founder of The Big Issue, a magazine that is edited by professional journalists and sold by street vendors who are homeless or vulnerably-housed. [1]

  1. People also search for