Mark Byford: £949,000 BBC pay-off 'not greed'
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.
He told BBC Radio 5 live's Victoria Derbyshire: "I absolutely don't think it was greed on my part at all".
Byford left the BBC in 2011 after being made redundant as part of a drive to cut the number of highly-paid senior executives at the BBC.
He sidestepped questions about paying any of the money back.
David Sillito reports.
05 Nov 2013
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