{"id":999651,"date":"2026-03-27T08:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999651"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:42:39","slug":"ex-google-chief-matt-brittin-appointed-new-bbc-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/ex-google-chief-matt-brittin-appointed-new-bbc-director-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google chief Matt Brittin appointed new BBC director-general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: The BBC on Wednesday named Matt Brittin, a former Google executive with no television or journalism experience, as its next director-general. <\/p>\n<p>The appointment to the high-profile role comes as the under-fire British broadcaster faces drastic shifts in the media landscape and a $10-billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The BBC Board has today appointed Matt Brittin as the 18th Director-General of the BBC. Matt, former President Google EMEA, will take over the role on 18 May,&#8221; the BBC said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: The BBC on Wednesday named Matt Brittin, a former Google executive with no television or journalism experience, as its next director-general. The appointment to the high-profile role comes as the under-fire British broadcaster faces drastic shifts in the media landscape and a $10-billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump. &#8220;The BBC Board has today appointed Matt Brittin as the 18th Director-General of the BBC. Matt, former President Google EMEA, will take over the role on 18 May,&#8221; the BBC said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}