20 Feb 2009
Sharon Baylay, Microsoft's former online services manager, has joined the BBC as its director
16 Feb 2009
| by Suzanne Bidlake
LONDON - The BBC has appointed ex-Microsoft marketer Sharon Baylay as its new director of its...Baylay will join the executive board in May, filling the role left vacant since Tim Davie was promoted to director of BBC audio and music last July. As the general manager of Microsoft s Online ...
, including the acquisition of Multimap. Since joining Microsoft in 1993, Baylay has also held marketing ...
27 Jun 2008
| by Staff
LONDON - BBC communications and marketing director Tim Davie has been appointed as the corporation...He replaces Jenny Abramsky, who is leaving to become chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund. Davie will oversee a budget of 200 million across all BBC radio stations. He said: 'As a passionate advocate of radio, I am excited by the challenge of continuing to deliver not only distinctive BBC services ...
04 Mar 2005
One of the first tasks facing Tim Davie, the newly appointed director of marketing, communications...Ahead of its Charter Review, the BBC has promised to pare down its ancillary non ...
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It has been estimated that up to a quarter of Davie's 480 marketing staff will lose their jobs to help deliver the £320 million savings promised by the BBC director-general, Mark Thompson.
He will also ...
30 Jul 1999
| by CLAIRE BEALE
when the Davies Committee files its report
on the future funding of the BBC at the end of this week....when the Davies Committee files its report
on the future funding of the BBC at the end of this week.
The Government committee, chaired by the economist, Gavyn Davies, is
expected to recommend an extra pounds 15 ...
drawn up proposals to raise new
funds through the privatisation of some of the BBC s assets ...
12 Jan 2007
Microsoft has announced that Mitch Davis, the founder of its in-game ad subsidiary, Massive, Inc
27 Aug 2008
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - Chris Dobson, Microsoft's UK commercial head, is leaving the internet giant to join BBC...Dobson will take on an as yet unspecified senior global sales position at the BBC's commercial arm. The move will make Chris Ward, Microsoft UK's commercial director, the company's leading commercial representative. Dobson, who has been with Microsoft for seven years, is vice-president of Microsoft UK Online ...
01 May 2009
| by Ian Darby
of the BBC's MC&A division. Tim Davie, the previous
director of the division, was promoted last July to director of BBC
audio and music. The Microsoft marketer Sharon Baylay takes over this
month, and her ...
You know that times are hard when the BBC is making cutbacks. Unlike its
commercial rivals ...
19 Jan 2007
TV programme on the BBC: you fade out for an ad break, then immediately fade back in. It s odd ...
05 Nov 1999
| by CLAIRE BEALE
as the broadcasting industry tabled its
response to the Davies Committee report on the funding of the BBC....as the broadcasting industry tabled its
response to the Davies Committee report on the funding of the BBC.
ITV has firmly rejected the idea of a licence fee for digital television
viewers, which the Davies ...
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The issue of the BBC s commercial activities has also come under
scrutiny following the Davies Committee ...