After Scandals, Bbc Appoints New Director General

By JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL, New York Times
Thu, 11/22/2012 - 5:56am

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Tony Hall, the chief executive of the Royal Opera House, has been selected to steer the British Broadcasting Corporation through one of its worst crises in decades.

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