[2] Hall was Director of News at the BBC between 1993 and 2001, and Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London from 2001 until March 2013.

[7] Since he left the BBC, Hall has joined the Board of the National Trust [8] and was elected to the Communications and Digital Committee of the House of Lords.[9].

Hall and his wife received death threats which the BBC decided were "credible", and they were subsequently guarded by police.

[23] Shortly before leaving the BBC on 31 August 2020, Hall commented that the 2015 negotiations with the government over TV licences for the over 75s had been "tense".

Hall struck the deal despite warning that the government's proposals would be a "nuclear" option that could lead to the loss of many BBC services.

Hall agreed with the interviewer, Amol Rajan, that there was a need to improve "diversity of thought" at the BBC, and was hopeful of 50/50 equal pay parity during 2020.

[29] As a Royal Opera House subsidiary, Opus Arte has relaunched its website as an online classical music retailer, selling both digital and physical products from across all the major record labels.

{{|date=February 2025}} Sector Skills Councils introduced the first formal creative apprenticeships; won government approval to build state-of-the-art facility The Backstage Centre for backstage skills[34] located with the Royal Opera House's production park at High House Purfleet in Thurrock, Essex,[citation needed] and maintain a careers advice and guidance website called "Creative Choices".

In April 2007, in the wake of the 2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel, he was asked to lead an enquiry into the MOD's media strategy.

[36] Hall has been a Trustee of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation since 2011, and was appointed Deputy Chairman of Channel 4 in 2012,[15] a post he was obliged to relinquish upon becoming Director-General of the BBC.

[37] After leaving the BBC in September 2020, it was announced that Hall would chair an independent company producing documentaries, HTYT Stories.

[38] In January 2022, he was appointed to chair the board of Frontline, a charity whose aim is "helping to keep children free from harm and supporting them to achieve their full potential..".