Greg Dyke
Former Director-General |
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Greg Dyke became Director-General of the BBC in January 2000, having
joined the previous year as Deputy Director-General and Director-General
designate.
He
resigned as Director-General on 29 January 2004.
He
was educated at Hayes Grammar School and later at York University
where he read Politics. After an early career as a journalist, he
started his broadcasting career in 1977 at London Weekend Television.
He
became Editor-in-Chief of TV-am in 1983 and the following year Director
of Programmes for TVS (Television South).
He
returned to LWT in 1987 as Director of Programmes; in 1990 he became
Managing Director; and from 1991 to 1994 he was Group Chief Executive
of LWT (Holdings) plc.
After
the Granada take-over of LWT, Greg Dyke joined Pearson Television
as Chief Executive.
During
his time in the post, from 1995 to 1999, he built it into the largest
non-US independent production company in the world.
He
also guided the consortium which created Channel 5 and became its
first Chairman.
While
at Pearson, Greg Dyke undertook a review of the Patients’ Charter
of the National Health Service at the request of the Secretary of
State for Health.
Since
joining the BBC, Greg Dyke has reorganised its structure with the
twin aims of putting him closer to programme-makers and of spending
more of the BBC's income on programmes and services for audiences
and less on running the organisation.
He
has also made major commitments to use digital technology to provide
new education opportunities and to improve the cultural diversity
of the workforce and BBC programmes.
Greg
Dyke was recently made the new Chancellor of the University of York
- he will take over in August 2004 from Dame Janet Baker.
The
Chancellor is the formal head of the university, whose official
duties are to confer degrees on behalf of the university, and to
chair the University's Court.
He
has been Chairman of the Independent Television Association (1992-94);
Chairman of GMTV (1993-94); and at various times a director of Pearson
plc, Channel Four Television, ITN and BSkyB.
He
was a non-Executive Director of Manchester United Football Club
(1997-99) and has been a Trustee of the Science Museum since 1996.
He
became a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1998 and a Fellow
of the National Film and Television School in 2002.
Greg
Dyke's interests include sport, particularly football, riding and
skiing.
He
was born on 20 May 1947.
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