London, United Kingdom - The BBC announces that it has appointed Roger Mosey as a new acting head of BBC Vision, effective August 20, 2012.
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Mr. Mosey is the BBC's Director of London 2012 – responsible for planning coverage of the Olympics across all genres and platforms.
This includes the Cultural Olympiad; major events in the build-up to the Games; and co-ordinating the BBC's activities locally, nationally and globally.
He took up the role in April 2009.
Mr. Mosey's previous roles include being Editor of Today on BBC Radio 4; Controller of BBC Radio 5 Live; Head of BBC Television News; and most recently Director of Sport.
Mr. Mosey is educated at Bradford Grammar School, followed by Wadham College, Oxford, where he received a degree in Modern History and Modern Languages.
After university he joined Pennine Radio, Bradford, as a Community Affairs Producer; and his BBC career began in 1980 when he joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire as a reporter.
Mr. Mosey's first job in network radio was on The Week In Westminster, and he then moved to Today as a producer and to the BBC's New York bureau before becoming editor of PM in 1987.
He was editor of Radio 4's Today programme from March 1993 until his appointment as Controller of 5 Live at the beginning of 1997.
Under Mr. Mosey's editorship, Today won Sony Gold Awards in 1994 and 1995, a British Environment & Media Award and was named Radio Programme of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild in 1995.
Radio 5 Live was named the Sony National Radio Station of the Year 1998; and BBC Television News won a number of Royal Television Society awards for journalism – including Programme of the Year for Newsnight (2002) and the Ten O'Clock News (2004).
The Ten O'Clock News also received Bafta awards in both 2004 and 2005.
In his time in Sport he oversaw the coverage of the 2006 World Cup and the Beijing Olympics, as well as the return of Formula 1 to the BBC.
He was elected as an executive board member of the European Broadcasting Union in 2011-12.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lincoln in 2011, and is a fellow of the Radio Academy.
Dave Gordon will replace Mr. Mosey as director of London 2012 for the duration of the Paralympics.
Mr. Gordon is Head of Major Events at BBC Sport and is currently leading BBC Sport’s preparations for the London Olympics.
Mr. Gordon joined the BBC a month after the Munich Olympics; Moscow, 1980 was the first he attended and he has been at every one since Seoul in 1988.
Mr. Gordon led the BBC teams in Sydney, Athens and Beijing;
He has also worked on the last seven Winter Olympics and eight Commonwealth Games, taking editorial responsibility for them since 1994.
He has also been responsible for the coverage of the BBC’s Athletics events, including the London Marathon, Great North Run and World and European Championships from 1994 to 2009.
Mr. Gordon has won numerous awards including, the Olympic Gold Rings for the Barcelona and Sydney Olympics plus BAFTAs for coverage of Sydney and the Manchester Commonwealth Games.
He is a member of the IOC and IAAF TV Commissions.
For four months in 2005, he was Acting Director of Sport following the resignation of Peter Salmon and the appointment of Roger Mosey.
Mr. Gordon’s BBC career started after university in 1972, when he became a Radio Studio Manager, specialising in News, Current Affairs and Sports Programmes.
He became a Producer and then Senior Producer in 1983. By 1984, he was editing daily sport news coverage.
Mr. Gordon moved to Television in 1985 and was appointed an Assistant Producer in TV Sport.
Following spells on Grandstand and then Sportsnight, he was made Assistant Editor of Grandstand in March 1990, Editor in October 1991, and Executive Editor in 1997.
George Entwistle will take up his position as the BBC's new director general on 17 September.
Mr. Entwistle is the Director for BBC Vision, in charge of one of the world's leading multimedia content groups, commissioning, producing and broadcasting across BBC television and the web.
He is responsible for BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC One HD, BBC HD, BBC Films, Vision Productions and has editorial oversight for UKTV.
Mr. Entwistle is a member of the BBC's Executive Board.
He was appointed Director-General Designate on 4 July 2012 and will take up his appointment as Director-General on 17 September 2012. ■