Gregory "Greg" Dyke (born 20 May 1947) is a British media executive, journalist and broadcaster and is currently chairman of The Football Association (FA). Since the 1960s, Dyke has had a long career in the United Kingdom in print and then broadcast journalism. He is credited with introducing 'tabloid' television to British broadcasting, and reviving the ratings of TV-am. In the 1990s, he held Chief Executive positions at LWT Group, Pearson Television and Channel 5.He is most notable for his tenure as Director-General of the BBC from January 2000 until 29 January 2004, a position from which he resigned following heavy criticism of the BBC's news reporting process in the Hutton Inquiry. He is the chairman of children's television company HiT Entertainment and has been Chancellor of the University of York since 2004.
I think the BBC is hideously white. The figures we have at the moment suggest that quite a lot of people from different ethnic backgrounds that we do attract to the BBC leave. Maybe they don't feel at home, maybe they don't feel welcome. Our biggest problem is at management level. I had a management Christmas lunch and as I looked around I thought, 'We've got a real problem here'. There were 80-odd people there and only one person who wasn't white.
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If British broadcasters want to recapture some of the lustre lost in recent years, and in particular the BBC because they're not funded by advertising, they must be willing to take more risks. Maybe it's time they stopped the scattergun approach to programming and put more money into bigger projects. And in the process, maybe it's time they gave more power to the creatives, to the producers, to the directors, to the writers. (Speaking in 2009)
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British television used to be known as the best in the world, but in the last decade, HBO has helped America quietly steal our crown. (Speaking in 2009)
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On January 29th 2000, I became the BBC's 13th Director-General and the first who had been to neither a public school nor Oxbridge. I was also the first in peacetime who had never worked for the BBC. But by the end of my first week I woke up deeply depressed. I couldn't believe how bereaucratic the whole place was. The worst point had been getting into my car one evening and finding a pile of papers more than a foot high on the back seat. This was my reading for tomorrow.
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Resigned in January 2004 when the BBC was criticized by the Hutton Inquiry for airing a story that suggested the British government had deliberately "sexed up" the argument for going to war in Iraq. The story turned out to have errors in it.
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(2000-2004) Director-General of the BBC.
Editorial Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The London Programme
1979-1981
TV Series deputy editor - 57 episodes
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
6 O'Clock Show
1982-1983
TV Series series editor - 15 episodes
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Red by James Hogan
2017
TV Series
Himself
RED by James Hogan
2016
Documentary
Himself
Jimmy Hill: A Man for All Seasons
2016
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Pledge
2016
TV Series
Himself
Women's FA Cup Final
2015
TV Series
Himself - FA Chairman, Women's Committee
The Fight for Saturday Night
2014
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Director of Programmes, LWT, 1987-1991 / Director General, BBC, 2000-2004
The Battle for Britain's Breakfast
2014
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Editor-in-Chief, TV-am 1983-1984
Late Kick Off North West
2014
TV Series
Himself - FA Chairman
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself - BBC Director-General, 2000-2004
Piers Morgan's Life Stories
2013
TV Series
Himself - Former TV Executive
David Frost: Hello, Good Evening & Farewell
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Newsround
2013
TV Series
Himself - Contributor (FA chairman)
56th BFI London Film Festival
2012
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Question Time
2004-2012
TV Series
Himself
Tales of Television Centre
2012
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Director-General
This Week
2011
TV Series
Himself
The Culture Show
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself - Reporter
An Audience Without Jeremy Beadle
2008
TV Movie
Himself
Get Me the Producer
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
How TV Changed Football Forever
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Sunday AM
2006
TV Series
Himself
The Sunday Programme
2005-2006
TV Series
Himself
The Story of Light Entertainment
2006
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Match of the Day
2006
TV Series
Himself
Who Killed the Sitcom?
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Story of ITV: The People's Channel
2005
TV Mini-Series documentary
Newsnight
2004
TV Series
Himself
Morgan and Platell
2004
TV Series
Himself
The Wright Stuff
2004
TV Series
Guest Panelist
This Morning
2004
TV Series
Himself
Richard & Judy
2004
TV Series
Himself
Have I Got News for You
1997-2004
TV Series
Himself - Guest Presenter / Himself
Now
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself
Breakfast with Frost
2001-2004
TV Series
Himself
The BAFTA TV Awards 2004
2004
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Presenter
Timeshift
2003
TV Series documentary
Himself - Director General of BBC
'Dad's Army': Missing Presumed Wiped
2001
TV Special documentary
Himself
The London Programme
1992-2000
TV Series
Himself
The Agenda
1996
TV Series
Himself
Fair Game
1995-1996
TV Series
Himself - Presenter
This Week
1991
TV Series
Himself
The Media Show
1988
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters - Volume 2
2005
Video
Guest Presenter
The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You'
2002
Video
Himself
Known for movies
The London Programme (1979-2000) as Editorial Department
Get Me the Producer (2007) as Himself
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was (2013) as Himself - BBC Director-General, 2000-2004
Tales of Television Centre (2012) as Himself - Director-General
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