The Jewish Media Power in Great Britain
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British People Economically and Socially.
BBC
Alan Yentob, Director of BBC programmes.
BBC Comedy Entertainment is Jon Plowman.
BBC regional TV include Rod Natkiel, Head of Network TV at BBC
Midlands and East, and Roy Saatchi, Head of Local Programmes at BBC
North. Naomi Goldman is not only a Producer on Newsnight, but is also
a member of the Jewish Socialist Group. Another militant Zionist in
BBC is writer and broadcaster Lisa Jardine.
Channel 4
The Chief Executive of Channel 4 is Michael Grade. Grade's father,
Lew Grade is still Chairman of The Grade Co. and a director of
Euro-Disney. Managing Director of Channel Four International Ltd and
Director of Acquisitions at Channel 4 is Colin Leventhal. Channel 4's
youth programme production company, Planet 24, has, according to the
Jewish Chronicle "an uncanny knack of fronting its popular Channel 4
programmes with blondish Jewish women."
ITV
Director is Jude Goffee and its senior sponsorship and advertising
officer is Eve Salomon. The Network Director of ITV is Marcus Plantin,
who was instrumental in appointing Claudia Rosencrantz as ITV ' s
Controller of Entertainment. Media group MAI owns two ITV franchises
(Anglia and Meridian). A driving force in the newly formed MAI/ United
News and Media giant is Lord Hollick.
Carlton Communications
Chairman is Michael Green, who is also Director of Independent
Television News, Central Independent Television and GMTV.
Granada Group
Granada was founded by Sidney and Cecil Bernstein. Alexander Bernstein
was the long-standing Chairman. Duncan Lewis is the Chief Executive of
the Granada Media Group; Chief Executive of Granada TV, and Chief
Executive of London Weekend Television. Lewis was formerly marketing
director at BT.
Pearson TV
Partly-owned by Lazards Bank. Chief Executive is Bruce Steinberg.
Channel Five
Chief Executive, David Elstein.
Cable and Satellite Channels
James Ackerman works as the newly appointed Director of multichannel
covetures and head of Britain's second biggest satellite channel UK
Gold, former MTV high-flier Bruce Steinberg is also Chief Executive of
the women's channel UK Living. Julian Aston is Managing Director of
Channel One.
The General Manager of Flextech TV's The Children's Channel (TCC)
cable/satellite operation is Franklin Getchell. TCC's Chief Executive
is Richard Wolfe and its Senior Series Producer is leading US teenshow
producer Mitchell Kriegman. The new Head of Programming at Bravo is
Mark Deitch, formerly BBC 1's Editor of Acquired Output. Flextech TV
also owns the Family Channel and manages TLC and the Discovery Channel
MTV Europe. This is a subsidiary of Sumner Redstone's Viacom UK, as
are VH-I; the Paramount Channel; the Sci-Fi Channel; the Blockbuster
video chain and, as we have already seen, Nickleodeon TV.
Paramount Pictures UK is headed by Danton Rissner, while the Managing
Director of the Sci-Fi Channel is David Woodman. The President and
Business Director of MTV Europe is Peter Einstein, backed up by Senior
Vice Presidents Gil Aronow and Boris Katz.
Chief Operating Officer Mark Rosenthal of MTV Europe.
Box-Music TV, whose Programme Director is Liz Laskowski. The UK
satellite Warner Channel is the work of Jeffrey Schlesinger, President
of Warner Bros International Television. Raymond Jaffe is the Director
of Publicity and Promotion at Sky TV.
Reuters TV Executive Editor is David Feingold and its Managing
Director is David Kogan (who also oversees London Radio), while head
of its newsgathering operation at Sky News is Malcolm Switzer.
David Feingold is chief of the London bureau of Cable News
International (CNN) now part of Gerald Levin's Time Warner
Corporation, Managing Director of CNN International, Randy Freedman.
UKTV is at present just a small part of the Asper family's Can West
Global Communications. His father sits on the governing board of
Jerusalem's Hebrew University.
Atlantic is Polygram Filmed Entertainment. Yoni Cohen was appointed
Vice President of Television and Broadcasting.
Radio
The single most powerful man in British radio is acting Manager of BBC
Network Radio, Michael (John) Green.
Jenny Abramsky, the former editor of The World at One and Today, who
is at present Controller not only of Radio Five Live, but also 24-hour
UK news, BBC World, Ceefax, and Multimedia Services.
As head of Drama at BBC Network Radio is Caroline Raphael. She was
also editor of Drama, Features and Youth Programmes on Radio 5.
The strongly pro-Jewish Associated Newspapers group owns large chunks
of the "independent" radio group GWR and Classic FM, where it has
installed John Spearman as Chief Executive.
Independent radio are such luminaries as the Chief Executive of EMAO
Radio Tim Schoonmaker, who controls commercial radio in the
North-east, and Roberta Aarons, who is Head of Production at SSVC,
which provides TV and radio services for the MOD.
Lynne Franks is the founder of Radio Viva, the UK' s first "wimmin's"
radio station. She told the Jewish Chronicle: "I enjoy being Jewish in
a cultural sense and love being with other Jewish women."
Tony Stoller is Chief Executive of the Radio Authority, while Yvonne
Kintoff is Managing Director of the Radio Advertising Clearing Centre.
Cinema, Music & Entertainment
The creator and head of the British Film Commission is Sidney
Samuelson, who is also a trustee of BAFTA (British Film and Television
Arts) and Chairman of its management committee.
As Chief Executive and Director of the British Board of Film
Classification, James Ferman holds the key regulatory position in the
British film industry.
Chrysalis Group
The Chief Executive of Crysalis Visual Entertainment is Michael
Pilsworth. CVE' s portfolio of "independent" film producers includes
Red Rooster Film & TV, and Watchmaker Productions.
Polygram
The President and Chief Executive of the Ł 5.5 billion Polygram global
entertainment group is Alain Levy, former head of CBS France.
Rank Organisation plc.
Chairman of the Rank Organisation, with major worldwide interests in
leisure and entertainment and UK assets including the Odeon cinema
chain, Mecca Leisure, the Hard Rock Cafe chain and Pinewood Studios,
is Sir Leslie Fletcher. Managing Director of Rank Amusements Ltd. is
J. Cohen.
Rank has close ties with MCA, with which it jointly owns Universal
Studios. MCA is in turn part of Edgar J. Bronfman Jr's Seagram empire.
Bronfman, President of the World Jewish Congress, is one of the
world's most powerful Zionists and backs a number of shadowy, but
influential, organisations which are constantly on the lookout for
possible threats to Jewish identity and cohesion.
The London-based MCA Records is managed by Steve Wolfe and MCA Music
Entertainment International has Meir Malinsky as Senior Executive.
RCA Records
RCA's Managing Director is Hugh Goldsmith; the company's Head of
Artistic Development is David Joseph, and the International Director
is Nancy Farbman.
Sony Corporation
Paul Burger is the Chairman and Chief Executive of Sony Entertainment
(UK), which includes the Sony record label. Burger, whose major
artists include Michael Jackson, is also Chairman of "The Brit Awards"
which is produced by Michael Gerrie. Senior Vice Presidents and
Executives at Sony UK include Jonathan Sternberg, Gerhard Blum and
Sara Silver.
Thorn-EMI
This is another one of the interlocked global media corporations with
heavy Jewish involvement. Its Directors include Sir Graham Day and H.
Einsmann. The Senior Vice President of EMI Music Worldwide is Charles
Diamont and the Managing Director is Michelle Burger. Vice President
of EMl's International Media Division is Jeremy Silver
Warner Chappel Music Ltd.
The London-based music subsidiary of the Time-Warner Corporation, this
operation too has a Jewish Managing Director - R. Godfrey-Kess.