David McCall (businessman)
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David Slesser McCall CBE (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[edit]
From 1959-61 he did his National Service.
Anglia Television[edit]
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). [citation needed]
Channel 4[edit]
In the early 1980s he helped to establish Channel 4. [citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
In the 1988 New Year Honours, he was appointed a CBE. He married Lois Elder in 1968. [citation needed] He lives in Redenhall in South Norfolk, on the Suffolk boundary (River Waveney), off the A143.[citation needed]
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