Sunday, July 24, 2011

The Guardian charts the BBC

The Guardian Media 100 for 2011 is out - and, for the BBC, the panel have decided there's power in talent. So there are new entries for Graham Norton, 66, Jeremy Clarkson, 74, Dr Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat, 92 - and even Lord Sugar creeps in at 99.

DG Mark Thompson moves down from 3 to 4, followed next by Controller BBC1 Danny Cohen, who at 16 is ten places above his boss, cut-price Director of Vision, George Entwistle.  Nick Robinson falls three to 29, but there's a bigger fall for his boss, Helen Boaden, Director of News, from 21 to 34, which is surprising given the scale of the empire she's inherited from Mark Byford. Lord Patten is a new entry at 21.  John Smith, Director of Worldwide, plummets from 27 to 51.

Robert Peston is a new entry at 39.  There's a slight up for Tim Davie, Director of Audio & Music, from 77 to 61.  Janice Hadlow  - how's The Hour going ? - slips three to 63; Ben Stephenson, who commissioned it, drops nine to 87.  And Peter Salmon drops two to 86.  BBC names dropping out entirely include Chris Evans, Pat Younge, Roly Keating and Jana Bennett - along with Stephen Fry.

At Radio 1, acting boss Ben Cooper will be disappointed not to get an entry.  Especially as they have found a place for his Head of Music, George Ergatoudis, a new entry at 73.

The panel have had some fun. My favourite new entry as a media power-broker ?  Sue Akers of the Metropolitan Police, running Operations Weeting and Elveden, is a new entry at 54.

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