Greg Dyke

Gregory Dyke (b.1947) was Director-General from 2000 to 2004.

Greg Dyke's pre-BBC career was in commercial and independent television, including TV-AM, TVS, Pearson and Channel 5. The BBC Board of Governors valued his commercial experience when they appointed him Director-General.

He changed BBC reporting lines so that he worked more closely with programme-makers and introduced measures to save money in non-programme departments. In his time he launched the Freeview digital television platform, hastening the transition from analogue to digital, and he injected a fresh style of management that engaged staff as few DGs had done before.

He resigned after the Hutton Report, investigating the death of government weapons expert David Kelly, condemned the BBC's editorial decision to broadcast a Today Programme report about the government's decision to go to war in Iraq.

He was chairman of the Football Association from 2013 to 2016 and is now Chancellor of the University of York.