Everything about Jenny Abramsky totally explained
Jenny Abramsky,
CBE, (born
7 October 1946) is chairman designate of the UK's
National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), due to take up her new role on 1st October 2008
(External Link
). The NHMF makes grants to preserve heritage of outstanding national importance. Jenny Abramsky is currently the most senior woman in the
BBC where she's Director of Audio and Music. She is the daughter of Professor
Chimen Abramsky and the granddaughter of
Yehezkel Abramsky. She was educated at
Holland Park School in
London and the
University of East Anglia, where she read
English.
In 1969, Abramsky joined the BBC as a programmes operations assistant, and in 1973 was appointed as a producer of
The World at One. She became the first woman editor of the agenda-setting
Today programme, ran the first Gulf War
Radio 4 News FM service, and went on to launch Britain's first continuous news and sport radio station,
Five Live, before repeating the feat on TV with
BBC News 24. She also launched the BBC's online news website,
news.bbc.co.uk which became one of the world's most highly accessed websites.
Abramsky became Director of
BBC Radio in January 1999 and was subsequently promoted to the
BBC's Executive Board with over all responsibility for BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, and
Five Live; as well as the BBC digital radio stations 1Xtra, 6 Music, BBC 7, Five Live Sports Extra and the Asian Network; the three BBC orchestras based in England; and the
Proms. In 2006 she became Director of Audio and Music – adding online services, audio on demand and
podcasting to her remit of broadcast radio. She had an annual programming budget of £236 million (about US $475m) and a staff of 1,681.
Abramsky was widely considered a huge success at the BBC and was one of the few senior executives almost universally admired. Under her leadership, by the first three months of 2007 the
BBC's radio stations had an audience share of 56.6 percent – compared with the 13.9 percent of listeners shared by all commercial radio broadcasters – and a reach of almost 33.5 million people – a record, according to
Guardian newspaper (9 July 2007). The paper listed Abramsky as the 18th most powerful person in the
UK's media, though she'd slipped from No. 11 in the paper's 2006 ranking
(External Link).
She is married to
Alasdair Liddell, former head of planning for the
NHS, who quit to go into private business. Their son is a director and producer of science programmes, and their daughter is a producer for
ITV.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Jenny Abramsky'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://jenny_abramsky.totallyexplained.com">Jenny Abramsky Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
