Greg Dyke
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"Gregory" ""Greg"" "Dyke" is a United Kingdom/British mass media/media executive, journalist and Presenter/broadcaster and is currently chairman of The Football Association (FA). Since the 1960s, Dyke has had a long career in the United Kingdom in Print journalism/print and then broadcast journalism. He is credited with introducing 'Tabloid journalism/tabloid' television to British broadcasting, and reviving the ratings of TV-am. In the 1990s, he held Chief Executive positions at London Weekend Television/LWT Group, Pearson Television and Channel 5 (UK)/Channel 5.

He is most notable for his tenure as Director-General of the BBC/Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation/BBC from January 2000 until 29 January 2004, a position from which he resigned following heavy criticism of the BBC's news reporting process in the Hutton Inquiry. He is the chairman of Children's television series/children's television company HiT Entertainment and has been Chancellor of the University of York since 2004.

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We would like to be away at Old Trafford, or at Chelsea if they beat Everton.

We could do with beating Sunderland and getting Manchester United away.

Probably not 'War and Peace,' but probably a lot of sports clips.

I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother burst into tears because she didn't want that much change in her life.

I'm not going to talk about Hutton now, but I will at some stage. And I don't necessarily accept the findings of Lord Hutton.

It's changing faster now than ever because of digital.

I was number one in the Guardian's top 100 people in the media two years ago. Last year I was number 87. I thought 'I'm unemployed, What do the other 13 do?