Sentence examples for director general about from inspiring English sources

"I've talked to the director general about this, and I've written to the chairman of the trust".

On January 1 1973, Mary Whitehouse wrote to the BBC's director general about the performance of "My Ding-a-ling" on Top of the Pops.

On 22 July 1969, Ernest Whitehouse wrote to the director general about remarks made about his wife on Quiz of the Week.

MPs on the Commons public accounts select committee are likely to quiz Mark Thompson, the former BBC director general, about Fincham's payoff when he is questioned alongside other current and former corporation executives on 9 September.

Both men suggested they had been misled by Mark Thompson, the BBC's former director general, about the scale of severance payments to executives.

He told Radio 4's Today programme: "The BBC haven't set that out and this is undoubtedly something we'll ask the director general about the next time he's in front of the committee.

BBC4 controller Janice Hadlow has revealed she is in discussions with corporation's director general, Mark Thompson, about extending the number of hours her channel is on air.

The new owner of Channel 5, Richard Desmond, is understood to have sounded out former BBC director general Greg Dyke about running the station following the departure of Dawn Airey.

I remember being appalled when I heard a former BBC director general saying about an absent colleague: "I don't think he has a positive vision".

Former BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons has contradicted the 13,000-word account given by former BBC director general Mark Thompson about a controversial £1m payout to a departing executive.

At the second hearing, in September, there was open disagreement between BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten and former director general Mark Thompson about the handling of a £1m payoff to former deputy director general Mark Byford.