THE DRUM

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   Peter Salmon's statement on latest BBC North flak

   Peter Salmon, the director of BBC North, has hit back at the Mail on Sunday after the paper published yet another article critical of the corporation's move to Salford Quays.The latest Mail attack said the move had suffered "a major setback... Read more

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   UK - 08/08/2011

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   BBC makes Peter Salmon first director of the north

   Peter Salmon has been appointed director of BBC North and will oversee the corporation's new base at Salford Quays.Salmon, currently chief creative officer of the corporation's broadcasting and production division BBC Vision, will take up his new... Read more

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   England - 09/12/2008

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   Salmon to step down from BBC executive board

   Peter Salmon, the man leading the BBC's move to Salford, is stepping down from the corporation's executive board.Salmon, who will remain the BBC North director, is being moved into a new 'operating committee' as the corporation cuts back... Read more

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   UK - 13/10/2010

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   BBC North director Salmon yet to fully move to north west

   Peter Salmon, director of BBC North will apparently not be looking to relocate his family to the north-west in the near future. According to Media Guardian, Salmon will not move his family ‘for the moment’ as he does not want to... Read more

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   UK - 27/07/2010

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   BBC will better represent north through MediaCity - Salmon

   BBC North director Peter Salmon has told The Drum the corporation will better reflect the lives of its licence fee payers in northern England when it moves into its new Salford Quays home next year.Salmon said new TV productions in the region and... Read more

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   UK - 22/07/2010

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   BBC North director hits back at The Sunday Times FOI report

   Peter Salmon, director of BBC North, has hit back at critics of the BBC’s move to MediaCityUK in Salford and the response to a Freedom of Information request that has been used to bring fresh criticism to the project. Writing in his blog on... Read more

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   England - 02/08/2011

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   BBC North boss says he will relocate family in the future

   Peter Salmon, director of BBC North has said that he will buy a ‘family home’ but no until his children finish their current stages of education. Salmon, who earlier this year admitted that he had no plans to relocate his family to the... Read more

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   UK - 27/08/2010

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   Sir Alex Ferguson ends BBC boycott

   Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will speak to the BBC for the first time in seven years this weekend after agreeing to end his boycott of the broadcaster.Ferguson began the self-imposed ban in 2004 following the broadcast of a BBC... Read more

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   UK - 25/08/2011

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   Richard Deverell to leave BBC North for London role

   Richard Deverell is leaving his post as chief operating officer of BBC North to take a new role with the corporation in London.Deverell, who has been working on the relocation of five BBC departments to MediaCityUK in Salford, will now oversee the... Read more

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   UK - 27/04/2011

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    BBC North launches new website as first staff move in

    BBC North has launched a new website and Twitter feed today to coincide with the officlal opening of the corporation's new base in Salford.More than 100 BBC staff are settling into their new offices at MediaCityUK today. A further 2,000 employees... Read more

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    UK - 16/05/2011

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