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BBC Recruitment Policy's principle No 1, part of an agreed statement with the unions, reads "Vacancies should be filled via a competitive selection process, using fair and robust job-related criteria".

Sadly, this only applies to jobs grade 2-11; I can't find principles for the top jobs. So the move of Tim Davie from Audio & Music to BBC Worldwide doesn't seem to break rules. It is, however, one of the few BBC jobs that many outsiders in indie-rich UK Ltd could have had a pop at...

Let's restate the worry (among others) for George Entwistle. Diversity and gender on the Executive Board. He now has Roger Mosey, 54, minding BBC Vision. Likely internal candidates for the permanent role include Peter Salmon, 56 and Danny Cohen, 38. BBC Audio and Music will by minded by Graham Ellis, ageless as far as the web is concerned, with likely internal candidates for the long-term role set to include Roger Mosey and Bob Shennan, 50. Zarin Patel is set to leave next year, and most insiders believe Dominic Coles is being lined up to replace her as CFO.

In 1993, John Birt brought in Liz Forgan, previously at The Guardian and Channel 4, to be director of radio. George has longer term plans to create a single radio-tv-and-online creative head, but, given the circumstances, that's probably on the backburner for quite a while. Running radio is, save for Brand/Ross, a a less exposed post than tv, and I expect the headhunters will be asked to have a serious trawl for this vacancy.