Roger Mosey
Roger Mosey (born 4 January 1958) is a British broadcasting executive who is currently working as the BBC's Director of London 2012 Olympic Games coverage. His previous roles for the corporation have included being Editor of Today on BBC Radio 4; Controller of BBC Radio Five Live; as well as Head of BBC Television News.
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[edit] Early life
He was born in Bradford in 1958 and educated at Bradford Grammar School, followed by Wadham College, Oxford, where he received a degree in Modern History and Modern Languages. He appeared on 'University Challenge' in 1978, representing Wadham College, Oxford.
[edit] Career
After university he joined Pennine Radio, Bradford, as a Community Affairs Producer; and his BBC career began in 1980 when he joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire as a reporter. His first job in network radio was on The Week In Westminster, and he then moved to Today Programme as a producer and to the BBC's New York bureau before becoming editor of PM in 1987.
He was editor of Radio 4's Today Programme from March 1993 until his appointment as Controller of BBC Radio Five Live at the beginning of 1997. Under his editorship, Today Programme won Sony Gold Awards in 1994 and 1995, a British Environment & Media Award and was named Radio Programme of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild in 1995.
BBC Radio Five Live was named the Sony National Radio Station of the Year 1998; and BBC Television News won a number of Royal Television Society awards for journalism - including Programme of the Year for Newsnight (2002) and the Ten O'Clock News (2004). The Ten O'Clock News also received BAFTA awards in both 2004 and 2005.
He recruited James Naughtie to join the Today presenting team and introduced Nicky Campbell, Victoria Derbyshire and Richard Littlejohn to Five Live. He brought Dermot Murnaghan and Natasha Kaplinsky to the BBC to present Breakfast. He is a Fellow of The Radio Academy.[1]
In 2003, when Head of News at the BBC he was asked to head up a landmark workstream looking at the BBC's Values.
As Head of Sport he axed Grandstand after 48 years on screen and is overseeing the move to Manchester in 2010.
He is now in charge of the BBC's coverage of the 2012 Olympics, and has be replaced as Head of Sport by Barbara Slater, daughter of Bill Slater, who will oversee the move of BBC Sport to MediaCityUK in Salford Quays in 2011.
[edit] Personal life
His interests include football - he is a Bradford City fan - movies, and reading thrillers and political biographies.
