George Entwistle: BBC needs more women and less bureaucracy The end of multi-million pound pay deals We should fight to hang on to the people we love, but we should never bankrupt ourselves to keep them because that's not what we are for. We should keep on looking to find the next generation. Going to war on waste I both love the BBC and at times find it an immensely frustrating place. It can feel... that the way the organisation is run is somehow slightly dislocated from the thing the organisation is for: outstanding creative originality and outstanding journalistic quality. [I will] go to war on every bit of the design and the structure and management and every bit of the culture that isn't optimised for that. Lack of women presenters on TV There's real headway with Amanda Vickery, Mary Beard and Lucy Worsley. We have made real progress in actively looking for, and finding, great female experts to front our big factual shows, but it's not enough. The world will always be profoundly demanding of the BBC on this question, and it should be. Lack of women on Radio 4"s Today programme The Today programme struggles because we are dealing with party politics as it is, dealing with the world as it is, and that's a very male place. What the BBC often reflects is the way the world is. On the BBC losing sports rights While I am director-general, the BBC will carry on having a serious commitment to sport. But look at the latest BT/Sky Premier League deal, that comes in at about £6.5 million per football game. We are simply no longer in that class. On alternative sports programming Look at growing interest in women's sport and what opportunities might there be for us in the future as different sports come to the public's attention. Women's sport could be a real opportunity for the BBC. On the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant It's important to say our coverage was a disappointment, particularly making factual mistakes as we did. That's not what the BBC is about.