Steve Hewlett

Profile: Full name: Steve Hewlett Area of interest: Media business, esp. Television Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-media-show/contact Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/stevehewlett Blog: Representation: http://www.marygreenham.co.uk/clients_stevehewlett.php Networks: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-hewlett/6/880/324

Biography: About: Education: Career: Began career as a Researcher on BBC's Nationwide programme, 1981; Chanel 4: producer - series incl. The Friday Alternative, Diverse Reports; BBC1: editor: documentary programmes Inside Story, Panorama; BBC: executive producer - Children’s Hospital, The Skipper, Rough Justice, States of Terror, The Diamond Empire; Channel 4: Head of Factual Programmes; Carlton Televsion: Director of Programmes, 1998, becoming Carlton Productions' Managing Director (2001/2004); BBC Radio 4 Media Show: presenter Current position/role: Presents the Media Show on Radio 4 also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Visiting Professor in journalism and broadcasting at the University of Salford Other activities: Disclosures: before going on to produce a number of series for Channel 4. Steve became Director of Programmes for Carlton Television in 1998, becoming Managing Director in 2001 Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382124 Video: BBC Radio 4 Media Show: presenter - "topical programme about the fast-changing media world" Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

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Articles:2011 The BBC must move more than just people to Salford - BBC North will have plenty of staff, but will struggle to achieve its potential without creative independence and autonomy - 27th June 2011

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Articles:2009 What Ofcom did wrong - Ofcom has been targeted first in the 'bonfire of the quangos' – after upsetting two of broadcasting's major players - 7th July 2009 Bigger questions on the licence fee cannot be ducked - Digital Britain's focus on those problems that need fixing now means that the more serious, long-term debate has not really happened - 15th June 2009 Local to the fore during crunch week for Digital Britain - What is the main priority for those drafting the Digital Britain report, asks Steve Hewlett - 1st June 2009 TV review: Ofcom's three-year Sky drama is set to run and run - Sky's rivals hope the Ofcom decision will change the market for pay TV in this country, but will it allow smaller rivals to flourish? Asks Steve Hewlett - 25th May 2009 C4 is right to change tack - and stop crying for public cash - After years of pleading poverty, begging for government cash - and being refused - C4 now has to hope that the same government leaves it alone to make do - 11th May 2009 How do you fix C4 - when it doesn't appear to be broken? - Despite the dire warnings, C4 has emerged financially stronger than its commercial competitors - 30th March 2009 If the BBC works, don't fix it - David Cameron says he will freeze the licence fee if he gets the chance, arguing that this would rebalance broadcasting. It wouldn't - 23rd March 2009 ITV does have a future - ITV's chairman, Michael Grade, has put the channel back exactly where it was under his predecessor Charles Allen: cutting costs and seeking further regulatory relief, says Steve Hewlett - 9th March 2009 ITV: extreme plans can't hide extreme failure - For what feels like the first time in living memory, ITV is wrestling with a problem not of its own making - 2nd March 2009 Setanta's own goal could cost Sky - Steve Hewlett: Both the European Union and Ofcom have found reason to question the ways that pay-TV is organised - 16th February 2009 C4's window of opportunity could be a stretch - At first glance it seems like a perfect solution, but there are questions to be answered before Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide do any kind of deal - 9th February 2009 A new broadcasting beast - What will Ofcom's 'second BBC' mean for Channel 4 and other broadcasters? - 26th January 2009 Why Channel 4's future is tied to ‘broadband for all’ - Opinion, Steve Hewlett: Mark Thompson can be accused of playing politics here - but he has at least been consistent, whereas Andy Duncan, the C4 chief executive, has abruptly changed his stance - 19th January 2009

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