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Article: Profile: Dawn Airey: Survival of the fittest
- Article from:
- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- September 29, 2002
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IT WAS where Charles Darwin first developed his theory of
evolution. It is also where Dawn Airey, Britain's high-flying TV
executive, agreed to lead a television revolution. Perhaps the giant
tortoises lumbering lugubriously across the Galapagos Islands
reminded her of the less-than-agile executives that had slowed ITV,
Britain's largest commercial television network, to an agonising
crawl.
Was she really going to join them? Universal wisdom had decreed
that the feisty and ambitious Airey, chief executive of Five,
Britain's youngest and fastest-growing terrestrial network channel,