Dyke
The British Film Institute has tapped former BBC boss Greg Dyke as chairman.
Dyke replaces helmer Anthony Minghella and will begin his four-year term in early March.
Dyke's 30-year career has largely been forged in TV, topping both London Weekend Television and Pearson Television before his appointment in 2000 as the director-general of the BBC.
He ankled the pubcaster in 2003 in the wake of the fallout of the Hutton Report, which criticized the BBC's reporting of claims that the British government had "sexed-up" up its intelligence dossier relating to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Dyke will oversee the BFI's digital strategy, the building of its National Film Center and preserving the BFI's film and television archive.
"At a time when the whole world is being changed by the digital revolution, we have a unique opportunity to make content available online to the whole of the education sector and, if we have the rights, to the public at large," Dyke said. "My job is to take the BFI's ambitious strategy to the next level in both the virtual and physical worlds, so that we have a new center that puts film right at the heart of cultural Britain and makes it the envy of the world."
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