Alan Protheroe

{{Short description|British journalist (1934–2013)}}

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Alan Protheroe CBE (10 January 1934 – 6 April 2013) was a BBC executive who served as assistant Director-General in the 1980s.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9982843/Alan-Protheroe.html|title=Alan Protheroe - Obituary|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 April 2013|accessdate=21 April 2014}} In 1987, he went on to run the Services Sound and Vision Corporation, now BFBS, providing radio and television services to the British Armed Forces.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22064132 Ex-BBC assistant director general Alan Protheroe dies], BBC News, 8 April 2013

During his tenure overseeing BBC News, Protheroe is credited with fighting for "old-fashioned hard news values",{{Cite book |last=Leapman |first=Michael |title=Last Days of the Beeb |publisher=HarperCollins |date=12 June 1986 |isbn=0047910437}} including promoting well respected journalists (such as John Humphries) into newsreader positions for the first time at the BBC.{{Cite book |last=Humphrys |first=John |title=A Day Like Today |publisher=William Collins |date=3 October 2019 |isbn=978-0007415588}} Protheroe continued to serve in the Territorial Army throughout his time at the BBC and was promoted to full colonel in 1984. In 1980 he was awarded a military MBE and appointed CBE (military) in 1991.{{Cite web |date=2013-04-09 |title=Alan Protheroe |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9982843/Alan-Protheroe.html |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}