Pat Younge, Chief Creative Officer

• Pat is responsible for BBC In-House production in Comedy, Drama, Entertainment, Factual, Multiplatform and some radio production across bases in London, Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham.
• He leads the largest team of content creators in the world, with around 3,000 staff and freelancers, delivering hit BBC shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, Top Gear, Springwatch, Luther, Antiques Roadshow, EastEnders, Dragons' Den, Watchdog and The One Show.
• Pat is a member of BBC Direction Group (BDG) and Vision Board, and chairs the Vision Productions Board and Environmentally Sustainable production group.

Salary: £310,000
Total remuneration: £317,800

Last updated March 2010

Pat took up the role of Chief Creative Officer of Vision Productions in January 2010.

He is responsible for the in-house programme making BBC teams that have created and made some of the best known hit BBC shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, Top Gear, Antiques Roadshow, EastEnders, Dragons' Den, Watchdog, Nature's Great Events and The One Show.

Incorporating Comedy, Drama, Entertainment and Factual in-house television, multi-platform and some radio production, Vision Productions has bases in London, Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham and around 3,000 staff working on content creation.

Pat was previously President and General Manager of Travel Channel Media (part of Cox Communications), an integrated multiplatform travel business. In this role he was responsible for all programming, production, development and operations for the network and led a transformation of the Travel Channel into a multimedia business with record ratings and business results and creative success including four Emmys in 2009.

Prior to this, Pat spent four years as Head of Programmes and Planning for BBC Sport, where he was directly responsible for scheduling more than 1,000 hours of sport output annually across BBC One and BBC Two, improving production efficiencies and overseeing innovative BBC Sports coverage.

Programmes he was responsible for included: Grandstand; Sunday Grandstand; Ski Sunday; Rugby Special and Sports Personality Of The Year.

In 2004 Pat was joint leader of the pan-BBC Content Supply Review, focussing on BBC in-house production.

Previously, Pat spent two years as Commissioning Editor for Multicultural Programmes at Channel 4, where his programme credits included: Untold, the black history season; Soul Nation, Trevor Nelson's history of British soul music; Love In Leeds, a pop documentary series and An Indian Affair, a revisionist history of Britain's relationship with India.

Pat has also worked at the BBC as a Series Producer in Current Affairs. His credits include: the award-winning series Black Britain, which he both co-created and series produced; and BBC One series Here And Now, of which he was series producer.

He started his career as a researcher on LWT's The London Programme in 1991.

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• Pat Younge's e-expenses Q3 2011-12 PDF (146KB)
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• Pat Younge's e-expenses Q2 2011-12 PDF (110KB)
• Pat Younge's central bookings Q2 2011-12 PDF (77KB)
• Pat Younge had no e-expenses paid in Q1 2011-12
• Pat Younge's central bookings Q1 2011-12 PDF (63KB)
• Pat Younge's e-expenses Q4 2010-11 PDF PDF (18KB)
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• Pat Younge's e-expenses Q3 2010-11 PDF (65KB)
• Pat Younge's central bookings Q3 2010-11 PDF (51KB)
• Pat Younge had no e-expenses paid in Q2 2010-11
• Pat Younge's central bookings Q2 2010-11 PDF (72KB)
• Pat Younge's e-expenses Q1 2010-11 PDF (31KB)
• Pat Younge's central bookings Q1 2010-11 PDF (50KB)
• Pat Younge had no e-expenses paid in Q4 2009-10
• Pat Younge had no central bookings in Q4 2009-10

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• Pat Younge had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q4 2009-10

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