Wednesday 10 September 2008

Roly Keating (Top 100 influencial figures in the media)


Roland "Roly" Keating (born August 5, 1961) is the current Director of Archive Content for the BBC.He joined the BBC in 1983. He was a producer and director for the Arts and Music department, making programmes for Omnibus, Bookmark (1992-7) and Arena. He was a producer and later became editor of The Late Show. In 1997, he became head of programming for UKTV. In 1999, he became the BBC Controller of Digital Channels. In 2000, he also took on the responsibility of Controller of Arts Commissioning. He became the Controller of digital television station BBC Four in December 2001, masterminding its March 2002 launch. In 2003, he was also joint leader of the BBC's Charter Review project for six months. He became the channel controller for BBC Two in June 2004. He was appointed temporary controller of BBC One following Peter Fincham's resignation on 5 October 2007.

Job: controller BBC2
Age: 46
Industry: broadcasting
Annual programming budget: £439.7m
2007 ranking: 67
Current Ranking: 62






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