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Title: DG's date to stand-down?
Post by Administrator on Jan 26^th, 2012, 9:59pm

The Guardian is leading with the confirmation of the DG's departure.

The story by Dan Sabbah, is here.

"Mark Thompson, the BBC's director general, has signalled to senior colleagues that he is ready to step down, with insiders believing he will quit at the end of 2012 or early in 2013, at the end of the broadcaster's Olympic year.

Britain's most powerful television executive has not given an exact timetable for his departure, but friends say he acknowledges that he has entered the final chapter of his eight-year director generalship and is "psychologically ready" to leave a job that paid him £779,000 last year."