Timeline of the BBC's Savile Affair
Updated: 11:00am UK, Friday 22 February 2013
The Timeline of events at the BBC and its handling of the coverage of the Jimmy Savile scandal
October 29, 2011: Former BBC star Jimmy Savile dies, opening the way for broadcasters and newspapers to report on allegations that he abused children without fear of legal action.
November 11, 2011: BBC2 screens a tribute programme to the late DJ: 'Jimmy Savile: As It Happened'.
November 25: Emails show that Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon appears happy with the progress of a Newsnight investigation into historic allegations of abuse by Savile.
November 30: Rippon appears to change his mind on whether the investigation should be aired, saying that the Crown Prosecution Service's belief that Savile was too old to be pursued was 'key'.
December 1, 2011: Rippon decides to stop work on the investigation, emailing Newsnight producer Meirion Jones to say: "pull editing now."
December 2, 2011: BBC Director of News Helen Boaden is said to have told George Entwistle that he may have to change the Christmas schedules, which included two tributes to Savile, because of the Newsnight investigation. The conversation was said to have lasted '10 seconds' and was at a lunch function.
December 28: Another Jimmy Savile tribute show 'Jimmy Savile at the BBC: How's About That Then?' airs on BBC2, two days after a look back at 'Jim'll Fix It', fronted by Shane Richie.
September 17, 2012: George Entwistle starts work as director-general after BBC Trust Chairman Chris Patten confirms him as Mark Thompson's successor on July 4.
October 3: ITV broadcasts 'Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile', opening the floodgates to hundreds of sexual abuse allegations against the former presenter. When it emerges Newsnight had carried out an investigation into Savile's activities but later shelved it, the programme and corporation come in for criticism.
October 5: George Entwistle, now Director General, emails staff to say the Newsnight investigation was into Surrey Police's inquiry into Jimmy Savile. Meirion Jones emails back and corrects Entwistle, telling him the pulled Newsnight slot was an investigation into whether Savile was a paedophile.
October 12: Amid growing pressure on the corporation, George Entwistle apologises to victims and announces two separate inquiries into why Newsnight's investigation was dropped, one of which is to be handled by former head of Sky News Nick Pollard, and another into the culture of the BBC while Jimmy Savile worked there.
October 22: Newsnight editor Peter Rippon steps aside after inconsistencies emerge in a blog he wrote explaining his decision to shelve the Savile story and a Panorama investigation into Newsnight's handling of the issue is watched by five million viewers.
October 23: George Entwistle appears before MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and gives a faltering performance when grilled on who at the BBC knew about Jimmy Savile's activities.
October 25: Controler of BBC Five Live is asked to lead the corporation's coverage of the Savile scandal, with Helen Boaden and her deputy Steve Mitchell effectively removed from overseeing it.
November 2: Newsnight broadcasts a report implicating "a senior Tory from the Thatcher era" - later identified as Lord McAlpine - in the North Wales child abuse scandal.
November 9: The BBC and Newsnight are forced to make a grovelling apology after victim Steve Messham admits he was mistaken about Lord McAlpine's involvement in the abuse.
November 10: George Entwistle announces his resignation, hours after admitting he had not known about Newsnight's McAlpine broadcast during an interview with John Humphrys on Radio 4's Today programme. He had been in the job only 54 days - the shortest period of any Director General's tenure.
November 12: Director of News Helen Boaden and her deputy Steve Mitchell are told to 'step aside' from their day to day management of BBC News.
December 18: The BBC apologises to Lord McAlpine and pays him a reported £185,000 in damages plus legal costs.
December 19: The Deputy Director of News at the BBC Stephen Mitchell quits after 38 years at the corporation on the day the Pollard Review into Newsnight's failings is published.
December 20: Helen Boaden returns to full duties.
January 25, 2013: It is announced that Tony Hall, a former BBC man who had been working at the Royal Opera House for several years, is to be the new Director General.
February 15, 2013: BBC announces Paul Mylrea, the Director of Public Affairs, is to leave the corporation later in the year. In the meantime, it has also announed Helen Boaden will be moved to Director of Radio.
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