Incoming BBC Director-General Tony Hall has announced his first major senior management appointments.
Helen Boaden (right), currently head of news, becomes head of radio (a department whose name has been “Audio and Music” for the past few years).
James Purnell, a former culture minister in the UK government under Labour, returns to the BBC to the new post of director of strategy and digital. Purnell was head of corporate planning of the BBC before leaving to work for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
BBC Vision regains the telly – it is to be known as BBC Television again. Hall says that the BBC’s audience – and everyone within the corporation – talks of radio and television, not “audio and music” and “vision” so it makes sense to give them their proper names.