Mark Byford, the former deputy director general of the BBC, has defended a controversial pay-off package that saw him leave the BBC with £949,000.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24818636

Had Byford stayed in his job he would have earned salary( almost THAT million for the two years or so?)  and maybe  helped avoid some of the Corporate controversies. I sense also that he would have made a very good job of representing the BBC at the recent Parliamentary Select Committees( if the BBC's recent troubles got that far).

If then -after all this period-he had been made redundant-he would have picked up Tony Hall's new 150k "redundancy" deal, "claimed" his due pension and walked into the sunset with due acclaim

It's a funny old world isn't it?

there's a very interesting video on youtube i think it's called "the nine o'clock news behind the scenes " or something like that , it's a very interesting piece on how a news programme is put together , but i think a lot of people on the forum will enjoy spotting how many of the people involved went on to form the "elite" of the BBC over the coming decades , and even to this day ....enjoy .