Overview

• Kate Phillips will succeed Charlotte Moore as Chief Content Officer, taking over full responsibility for the BBC’s output.
• Director-General Tim Davie announced Phillips’s permanent appointment following a competitive recruitment process.
• In her expanded role, Phillips will manage all BBC TV channels, BBC iPlayer, ten national radio networks and BBC Sounds, including children’s and education content.
• Phillips has spent over three years as director of unscripted programming and commissioned hits such as The Traitors, Strictly Come Dancing and Gladiators.
• The broadcaster is confronting falling license fee revenues, scaled-back US co-productions and rising production costs.