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| − | '''David Lyndoch Graham''' (born 23 July 1943) is a former television producer who founded the management consultancy [[Attentional]] in 1991 as David Graham & Associates. | + | '''David Lyndoch Graham''' (born 23 July 1943) is a former television producer who founded the management consultancy [[Attentional]] in 1991 as David Graham & Associates. Attentional's website gives the following information on Graham: |
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| + | <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">David formed David Graham & Associates (DGA) in 1990 to develop data and research services for independent TV and film producers in the UK. The company became Attentional Ltd in 2007.<p>David’s career in broadcasting began in Toronto, Canada and continued at the BBC, where David was a producer in the Current Affairs department of BBC Network Television. In 1980, David founded Diverse Production Limited, an independent production company, which supplied current affairs programmes to Channel Four.</p><p>David was educated at the Universities of Bristol and Indiana. He is a member of The Royal Television Society and has been awarded a medal for Outstanding Services to Television. <ref>Attentional, [http://www.attentional.com/people_view.php?id=1 ATTENTIONAL PEOPLE - David Graham] [Accessed 3 November 2009]</ref></p></blockquote> | ||
According to the authors of ''The Battle for the BBC'', [[Brian Griffiths]], the head of [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher’s]] Policy Unit, invited Graham to Downing Street ‘on several occasions to discuss broadcasting. [[Brian Griffiths|Griffiths]] was interested in the economic questions: how the industry was structured; who did what; how people were paid for what they did.’<ref>Steven Barnett & Andrew Curry, ''The Battle for the BBC: A British Broadcasting Conspiracy?'' (London: Aurum Press, 1994) p.61</ref> | According to the authors of ''The Battle for the BBC'', [[Brian Griffiths]], the head of [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher’s]] Policy Unit, invited Graham to Downing Street ‘on several occasions to discuss broadcasting. [[Brian Griffiths|Griffiths]] was interested in the economic questions: how the industry was structured; who did what; how people were paid for what they did.’<ref>Steven Barnett & Andrew Curry, ''The Battle for the BBC: A British Broadcasting Conspiracy?'' (London: Aurum Press, 1994) p.61</ref> | ||
Revision as of 10:39, 3 November 2009
David Lyndoch Graham (born 23 July 1943) is a former television producer who founded the management consultancy Attentional in 1991 as David Graham & Associates. Attentional's website gives the following information on Graham:
David formed David Graham & Associates (DGA) in 1990 to develop data and research services for independent TV and film producers in the UK. The company became Attentional Ltd in 2007.
David’s career in broadcasting began in Toronto, Canada and continued at the BBC, where David was a producer in the Current Affairs department of BBC Network Television. In 1980, David founded Diverse Production Limited, an independent production company, which supplied current affairs programmes to Channel Four.
David was educated at the Universities of Bristol and Indiana. He is a member of The Royal Television Society and has been awarded a medal for Outstanding Services to Television. [1]
According to the authors of The Battle for the BBC, Brian Griffiths, the head of Thatcher’s Policy Unit, invited Graham to Downing Street ‘on several occasions to discuss broadcasting. Griffiths was interested in the economic questions: how the industry was structured; who did what; how people were paid for what they did.’[2]
Notes
- ↑ Attentional, ATTENTIONAL PEOPLE - David Graham [Accessed 3 November 2009]
- ↑ Steven Barnett & Andrew Curry, The Battle for the BBC: A British Broadcasting Conspiracy? (London: Aurum Press, 1994) p.61
