The lessons from the Jimmy Savile affair are being learnt by the BBC, the new director general said today.

Detailed accusations about Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes were censored after viewers tried to post them on a BBC tribute web page after his death.

The public spending watchdog is to investigate BBC severance packages after it emerged almost 200 senior managers received pay-offs of more than £100,000 (€122,137) each in the past three years.

A review has absolved senior BBC executives of trying to bury an explosive story about one of its best-known children’s television stars, saying management errors were to blame for the fact that a planned exposé on paedophilia claims against the late Jimmy Savile was cancelled.

The review into Newsnight’s shelving of a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades long campaign of sexual abuse is due to be released today.

The review into Newsnight’s shelving of a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades long campaign of sexual abuse will be released tomorrow.

The BBC Trust chairman insisted he had to give former director general George Entwistle a huge payoff when he quit in the wake of paedophilia scandals engulfing the corporation — and hinted that Entwistle wanted even more money.

The head of the Royal Opera House, Tony Hall, was given the biggest job in broadcasting today after being appointed BBC director-general as the corporation acted quickly to move on from its crisis.

A BBC trustee who was involved in the decision to give George Entwistle a £450,000 (€560,000) payoff for resigning as director general insisted today he still believes it was the right thing to do.

The BBC has said it intends to clarify the role played by the director of BBC Northern Ireland in the 'Newsnight' controversy.

The British Prime Minister has said that it is 'hard to justify' the £450,000 (€562,000) severance pay-off for the BBC's outgoing Director General.

The BBC’s director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell have stepped aside, according to reports.

Britain’s BBC must undergo a radical overhaul in the wake of “shoddy” journalism which led to the resignation of its chief or its future will be in doubt, the head of the state-funded broadcaster’s governing body said yesterday.

BBC director general George Entwistle tonight fell on his sword over the “unacceptable” 'Newsnight' broadcast which wrongly implicated a senior former Conservative in a child abuse scandal.

A BBC report which wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse should never have been broadcast, the corporation’s director general said today.

Claims are being investigated that three doctors were involved in a network of child abusers connected with disgraced television presenter Jimmy Savile.

Information on three doctors who worked at hospitals where Jimmy Savile had links has been passed to police amid claims they were involved in a network of child abusers connected with the disgraced presenter.

The decision not to prosecute Jimmy Savile over abuse allegations in 2009 will come under the spotlight again after the Prime Minister said Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer will review legal papers from the case.

Leaked emails suggest that Newsnight editor Peter Rippon played down the importance of an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s alleged child abuse, saying the victims were “teenagers, not too young” and the abuse was not the “worst kind of sexual offences”.

Four stories came together in recent weeks and highlighted the disastrous consequences of silence in the face of blatant public dishonesty and immorality.

A Newsnight reporter alleged that her editor tried to “kill” the Jimmy Savile story by making “impossible editorial demands” and saying the women who spoke out about the TV star were not too young at the time of the incidents.

The BBC is investigating up to 10 “serious allegations” involving past and present employees, director general George Entwistle said today.

BBC boss George Entwistle will be quizzed about the corporation’s handling of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal by a committee of MPs today.

BBC Newsnight editor Peter Rippon has stepped aside after the corporation said his explanation of why the show dropped its investigation into the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal was “inaccurate or incomplete”.

A Panorama documentary will tonight plunge the BBC into fresh controversy by claiming the corporation pulled an investigation into the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal after coming under pressure from senior managers.

The BBC will broadcast a Panorama special examining Newsnight’s decision to drop an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s abuse of children.

Jimmy Savile’s former personal assistant has said the disgraced TV star “thought he was untouchable”.

David Cameron could order a public inquiry into the Jimmy Savile scandal once the BBC and police investigations are concluded, Downing Street has indicated.

Former High Court judge Dame Janet Smith and ex-Sky News executive Nick Pollard are to lead the BBC’s independent reviews stemming from the Jimmy Savile sex abuse allegations.

A senior member of staff at the BBC has revealed he questioned Jimmy Savile over rumours about his private life more than 20 years ago.

A senior member of staff at the BBC has revealed he questioned Jimmy Savile over rumours about his private life more than 20 years ago.

Jimmy Savile’s alleged catalogue of abuse could have spanned six decades and included around 60 victims, police said.

BBC director-general George Entwistle offered a “profound and heartfelt apology” to the alleged victims of Jimmy Savile’s sexual abuse as he announced that two inquiries would be launched.

BBC director-general George Entwistle today offered a “profound and heartfelt apology” to the alleged victims of Jimmy Savile’s sexual abuse as he announced that two inquiries would be launched.

BBC director-general George Entwistle has asked a senior colleague to answer journalists’ questions on the dropping of a documentary about Jimmy Savile.

David Cameron raised the prospect today that Sir Jimmy Savile could be posthumously stripped of his knighthood amid allegations of sexual abuse against young girls.

The chairman of the BBC Trust said allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile could not be excused as behaviour from a time when “attitudes were different”, and gave his backing to inquiries by police and the corporation.

BBC director general George Entwistle has apologised to victims of Jimmy Savile’s alleged sex abuse and said the corporation would hold its own inquiry following a police probe.

BBC Director General George Entwistle today said he would like to “apologise on behalf of the organisation” in the wake of the allegations of sexual abuse against former DJ Sir Jimmy Savile.

The BBC's new Director-General George Entwistle has promised big changes with interactivity at the channel, with options to watch the likes of classic soaps to Glastonbury music festival and sporting events like the World Cup from various angles, giving viewers much more control.

George Entwistle is to become the new Director General of the BBC.

Web users are to be given a groundbreaking role in shaping a BBC2 series, it was announced today.