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John SmithNumber of Employees 27,148
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NAICS Code Television Broadcasting: 515120
Recent Events
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Obama's speech: 'Brother can preach'
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BBC appoints Leong for China, Taiwan
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Kerry Ellis to Replace Jodie Prenger as Nancy in West End's Oliver!
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BBC to Launch All-U.K. Radio Station Streamer Next Year
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BBC, Commercial Radio Unveil Web Radioplayer
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BBC Launches Star Search for Wizard of Oz's Dorothy
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DTV Media Planning Company, Leap Media, Names Tim Hanlon, Barry S. Fischer to Advisory Board
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NEWS BBC and Nintendo Reveal New Wi...
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Broadcast Rebels Ahoy!
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Report: Queen Wants Adam Lambert to Join Their Group
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News Corporation plans to sue BBC for copyright infringement?
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BBC celebrating �sweet' win with Rightful Udder release
News & Analysis
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Lay off the Beeb and let ITV off the leash
Financial Times
- 2009-12-01
Friends, commentators, licence fee payers, I come to praise the government's digital economy bill, not to bury it.Since the bill was published last month, media critics have jumped on a bandwagon that has rapidly gathered speed. But snap judgments do not stand up to scrutiny.A bill to deal with...
Five joins UK’s Project Canvas
Strategy Eye
- 2009-07-29
UK broadcaster Five is joining UK IPTV scheme Project Canvas, leaving Channel 4 as the only public service broadcaster not signed up to the project. Dawn Airey, Five chairman and CEO, says: ?It’s vital for broadcasters and other industry stakeholders to form partnerships such as Canvas if they are...
BBC Wins Support For Open VOD Standard, Will Share iPlayer With Rivals
Content Next
- 2008-12-11
UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) and telco BT (NYSE: BT) are signing up to a BBC project to create an open standard for delivering on-demand video over broadband to living room TVs. They are joining Project Canvas, under which the BBC wants to mobilise content makers, ISPs...
Coffee Time: Screen test
- 2008-09-13
1 Who played Pam Ferris's co-star in Rosemary & Thyme? 2 Name the ITV naval drama series starring Lee Boardman that sank without trace. 3 Which veteran BBC sports commentator's autobiography is entitled Interesting, Very Interesting? 4 Martin Clunes starred as Doc Martin. But in which county...
ON THE MINDS OF TV'S MASTERS
- 2008-08-17
THE Edinburgh International Television Festival being held next weekend features a special edition of Noel Edmonds's Sky gameshow Are You Smarter Than A 10-Year-Old. In classic Edinburgh-ironic style, Edmonds himself is being inveigled into hosting a spoof version, asking: Are You Smarter Than A TV Executive? TV critics,...
It is commercial television that is really in peril
- 2008-08-02
Carol Vorderman has, apparently, become too expensive for Channel 4's game show Countdown. Gone are the carefree days when Channel 4 could afford to poach Paul O'Grady from ITV to chase teatime ratings. Now, says C4 chief executive Andy Duncan, it can only fulfil its public service remit if someone...
Channels not buying enough Scottish programmes TELEVISION:
- 2008-05-25
DIRECTOR of Ofcom Scotland Vicki Nash calls herself the "midwife" of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission SBC. And after releasing new figures last week - which reveal that the "outrageously" small amount of money the UK's main broadcasters are spending on network programmes in Scotland had shrunk further - she was...
Phoneys won't fool me again
- 2008-05-11
MY name is Fiona McIntosh and I am a first-class mug. I am one of the millions of people who voted for a gurning TV star in spandex, in the belief that my vote counted. It's amazing how easy it is to be taken for a ride....
Detective Agency
- 2008-03-30
SHAME that recently deceased director Anthony Minghella's final film for the BBC - The No . 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - was a feeble African travelogue. A bit like ITV's separatist saga Wild At Heart - only with black people in it.
Men behaving badly
- 2008-03-29
Ashley Cole is a difficult man to warm to. The friends of Ashley, like the friends of Heather Mills, are small isolated groups emerging only after dark. But it's just possible that this tiresome berk may have sparked a revolution that will improve football. The man who nearly...
Decision Makers
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Michael Grade | Chairman |
| Anthony Salz | Vice Chairman |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | COO | Current |
| BBC Worldwide Limited | Chief Executive | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director General & Editor-in-Chief | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Strategy & Distr | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Strategy & Distr | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Programme | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Programme | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, News | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, News | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBC Worldwide Limited | Director, Television | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, TV | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, TV | Former |
| TLC, LLC | Former | |
| The London School of Economics | MSc(Dist) | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Radio & Music | Current |
| British Film Institute | Board of Directors | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Radio & Music | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | General Director | Current |
| Lincoln School | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Deputy Director, News | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Deputy Director, News | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, World Service & Global News | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, World Service & Global News | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Marketing | Current |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | Vice President, Marketing, Europe | Former |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Marketing | Former |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | UK Marketing Manager | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Manager, Marketing, BBC Concert Orchestra | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Controller, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Controller | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Fasttrack | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Business.com, Inc. | Former | |
| Rfo, Inc. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Head, N Ireland | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Head, Contemporary Factuals | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| BBC Radio | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Glasgow University | Chartered Accountant | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| The Pensions Regulator | Board of Directors | Current |
| BBC World Service | Deputy Director | Former |
| BBC World Service | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Independent Television Network | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBC Worldwide Limited | Director, Finance | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | management consultant | Former |
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| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Iran Project | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | Chief UK Economist | Former |
| HM Treasury | member | Former |
| University of Nottingham | Honorary Degree of Doctors of Laws | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York Inc. | Narrator and Creative Director | Current |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Creative Director | Current |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Programming Advisor | Current |
| Royal Academy of Music | Current | |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Global Public Media | Award, Winning Reporter for Bbc Television's Newsnight and the Observer of London | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Encyclocentral | Current | |
| University of São Paulo | Lecturer | Former |
| University of Chicago | Mba | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Head, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Siemens Business Services | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| WGBH | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Royal Air Force | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cellcast Technologies | Chief Technology Officer, Cellcast Communications | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Broadcast Engineer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
Mark Gatty Saunt, Finance Director, has more than seven years of past experience licensing content from the publishing industry for electronic distribution. Mr. Gatty Saunt served as Licensing Director, News & Business Division for The Dialog Corporation, a world wide leading content aggregator. During a five year period he negotiated and licensed the electronic rights to hundreds of titles and maintained over 250 individual publisher relationships. Following that, Mr. Gatty Saunt served as a content licensing expert for online syndication company iSyndicate, Inc., now wholly owned by YellowBrix, Inc. During his time at iSyndicate, Mr. Gatty Saunt focused on big brand content acquisition from the likes of Knight Ridder, Tribune Company and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). More recently, Mr. Gatty Saunt positions himself as an independent content sales and syndication consultant. He assists various content providers, such as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), UPBEAT Entertainment News Online, Al-Bawaba and RDSL, with new distribution channels for their content. This mainly involves marketing and licensing the content to third party aggregators, on/offline syndicates, wireless companies, corporate websites and intranets.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nite Owl Productions, Ltd | Finance Director | Current |
| Nite Owl Productions, Ltd | Producer, Business Development | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Knight-Ridder, Inc. | Former | |
| Tribune Company | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| University of Wales | fellow | Former |
| Current Affairs | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Harrods Ltd. | tour guide | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Dcms | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Dcms | Director of Creative Industries | Former |
| Dcms | Permanent Secretary | Former |
| HM Treasury | Head of Banking Policy Branch | Former |
Visiting Fellow at SDPI, is currently developing the humanities program at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as a senior faculty member of the Department of Social Sciences. He comes to LUMS from the University of Pennsylvania where he has been on the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and of South Asian Studies. Following his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University where he largely carried out his doctoral work as a transfer student from University College London, Dr. Nomanul Haq's university teaching career began in earnest with his faculty appointment at Tufts University after which he became Assistant Professor at Brown University, and then at Rutgers University, finally ending up at the University of Pennsylvania. During the years 2004 and 2005, Dr. Nomanul Haq held the title of Scholar-in-Residence at the US-Pakistan federally funded American Institute of Pakistan Studies in Islamabad and served as its Project Director. He is the author of several books, largely published in Europe and the USA, as well as numerous articles and papers in some of the world's most prestigious journals, international newspapers, and edited volumes including Nature, New York Times, and Daedalus. While being General Editor of Oxford University Press book series Studies in Islamic Philosophy, he also sits on the editorial boards of many learned periodicals. Dr. Nomanul Haq has received a large number of honors and awards, including the Templeton Prize for Religion and Science and the Pakistan League of America Annual Award, and has delivered many prestigious lectures in places such as Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Humanities Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of UN-sponsored Forum on Religion and Ecology, and has also worked for several years as a journalist at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Sdpi | Current | |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| News Corporation | World Affairs Correspondent | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Glasgow University | Honours Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wdet-FM | City Government Reporter | Current |
| National Public Radio Inc. | Current | |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| University of Birmingham | Senior Lecturer | Former |
| University of Birmingham | BSc Honours in Physics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| University College | Honours degree in History | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current | |
| Independent Television Network | Editor-in-Chief | Former |
| Cardiff University | Director of the Centre | Former |
| Cardiff University | Professor of Journalism | Former |
| Independent Television Network | Editor | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Head, TV News | Current |
| PM Company LLC | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Chairman | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, LLC | Executive Investor | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Vice Chairman | Current |
| The Media Standards Trust Limited | Executive Vice Chairman, Nm Rothschild | Current |
| The Eden-Project | Board of Directors | Current |
| British Legal Awards | Executive Vice Chairman, Nm Rothschild | Current |
| Rothschild Inc. | Executive Vice Chairman | Current |
| Business for New Europe | Executive Vice Chairman | Current |
| Advisory Panel | Board of Directors | Current |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Senior Partner | Former |
| Freshfields | Senior Partner | Former |
| Freshfields | Corporate Lawyer | Former |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Corporate Lawyer | Former |
| Business.com, Inc. | Trustee | Former |
| Exeter University | Doctor of Laws | Former |
| The Media Standards Trust Limited | Board of Directors | Former |
Executive News
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