Tony Hall quits amid uncertainty and turmoil at the heart of the BBC
It is being widely reported that the BBC’s director general, Tony Hall, is stepping down after seven years in post.
The reasons for the resignation are not immediately clear but Hall has encouraged speculation by saying “if I followed my heart I would genuinely never want to leave”.
Halls’ resignation comes in the wake of consistently bad news for the state broadcaster.
The BBC finished last year on a miserable note, as two separate opinion polls clearly indicated that the British public want an end to the license fee – the tax that keeps the Beeb in business.
A poll by Savanta/ComRes, a London-based market research group, indicated that two thirds of respondents (from a 2,000 strong sample) want the £154.50 annual license fee to be either scrapped or significantly reduced.
Another poll by Public First, published in the Sunday Telegraph (December 28), suggested that 74 percent of the British public support abolishing the license fee.
The poll by Public First was based on a sample of 1000 adults from across the UK.
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