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Article: Grade touted as ITV's saviour after Airey switches allegiance to BSkyB
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2002
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A NEW round of musical chairs begins at the top of the television
industry today after Channel 5's chief executive, Dawn Airey,
surprised pundits by joining Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB.
Channel 5 and ITV, to which Ms Airey was widely tipped to move,
will now have to find chief executives. ITV may turn to an unlikely
saviour, the former BBC1 controller and Channel 4 chief executive
Michael Grade. But Mr Grade, 59, who has been out of broadcasting for
five years and is now chief executive of Camelot, has said an
approach had not yet been made.
Channel 5's shareholders, United Business Media and RTL, are due
to meet Ms Airey today. She is on a rolling one-year contract, which
is believed to have ...