[Community Media Association] Community Channel new controller is Nick Ware

[Diane Reid]

Apologies for cross posting
BBC creative director takes over at Community Channel
> Susan Thompson
> 19 May 2005 07:50
> 
> The Community Channel has hired the former creative director at BBC  
> learning, Nick Ware, as its new channel controller.
> 
> Ware starts on 4 July and replaces Jane Mote who has returned to the  
> BBC, from where she had been on secondment since January 2003.
> 
> He reports to Caroline Diehl, chief executive of the Media Trust,  which 
> owns the not-for-profit channel.
> Ware said he planned to take the channel's profile to "the next  level" 
> by growing the budget and bringing in "higher impact"  programming. 
> Recent shows have included The Jon Snow Interviews in  which the Channel 
> 4 News presenter tackled Gordon Brown and Richard  Curtis.
> 
> The channel, which celebrates its fifth birthday in the autumn, has  
> beefed up its presence over the years and is now available 24 hours a  
> day on Sky and Telewest. It also broadcasts between 10am and 4pm on  NTL 
> and between 6am and 9am on Freeview.
> 
> Source: broadcastnow.co.uk

Diane Reid
Director 
Community Media Association
Access to the media for people and communities
http://www.commedia.org.uk/

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