David McCall (businessman)

David Slesser McCall (born 3 December 1934)[1] is a Scottish businessman and former broadcasting executive. He was Chief Executive of Anglia Television in Norwich throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s.

Career

From 1959-61 he did his National Service.

Anglia Television

He joined Anglia Television Limited in Norwich in 1968, becoming Chief Executive in 1976. From 1986-94 he was also Chief Executive of Anglia Television Group, and Chairman from 1994-98. He retired as Chairman of Anglia Television in May 2001.[2]

He became a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1988. He is a former President of the (CTBF).

Channel 4

In the early 1980s he helped to establish Channel 4.

Anglia House, home of Anglia TV

Personal life

In the 1988 New Year Honours, he was appointed a CBE. He married Lois Elder in 1968. He lives in Redenhall in South Norfolk, on the Suffolk boundary (River Waveney), off the A143.

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References

Media offices
Preceded by
President of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund
1998 - 2001
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Chairman of Anglia Television Ltd
1994 - May 2001
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Chief Executive of Anglia Television Ltd
1976 - 1994
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Chairman of Oxford Scientific Films
1982 - 1989
Succeeded by
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