It’s going to take a bit of time. Please bear with me through the process.

🔺 Publicly traded

🔺💲 Publicly traded but mostly privately owned

💲 Privately owned

🔷 Non for profit and/or trust ran by board of directors (Note: I suggest taking a long look at who the board of directors are, especially AP and NPR)

There are a lot of Brits running a lot of American (or thought to be American) media groups, I’m going to include quite a few British publications. There is also an American on the BBC board.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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    3 months ago

    🔷 British Broadcasting Company (BBC)

    ◾ The BBC is a statutory corporation, independent from direct government intervention, with its activities being overseen from April 2017 by the BBC Board and regulated by Ofcom.

    In the United Kingdom, a statutory corporation is a corporate body created by statute. It typically has no shareholders and its powers are defined by the Act of Parliament which creates it, and may be modified by later legislation. Such bodies were often created to provide public services.

    Its work is funded principally by an annual television license fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organizations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC’s streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC’s radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK.

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    ◾ CEO is Samir Shah

    Dr Samir Shah, CBE (born 29 January 1952), is a British-Indian television and radio executive. He has worked for London Weekend Television, the BBC, and is the chief executive of Juniper TV, a British company. In 2021, he co-authored the UK government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report.

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    ◾ Ofcom-the regulating authority

    The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

    Ofcom has wide-ranging powers across the television, radio, telecoms and postal sectors. It has a statutory duty to represent the interests of citizens and consumers by promoting competition and protecting the public from harmful or offensive material.

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    ◾ Board of Directors

    The BBC Board is the governing board of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The board replaced the BBC Trust in April 2017.

    • Chair is Samir Shah
    • Tim Davie-Before joining the BBC, he was Vice President of Marketing and Franchise at PepsiCo Europe. Before this, Tim worked for Procter and Gamble after leaving Cambridge University where he read English.
    • Shumeet Banerji-He has served on the Board of Directors of Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard Company and its successor HP, Inc since 2011. Mr. Banerji is an Independent Director of Jio Platforms Limited, India’s most ambitious digital platform play. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Jio’s parent Reliance Industries Limited. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Felix Pharmaceuticals (Ireland), and of the Panel of Senior Advisers of Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs, UK).
    • Sir Damon Buffini-He was a founding partner of alternative asset manager Permira and worked there for 27 years.
    • Sir Robbie Gibb-He left the BBC in 2017 to become Director of Communications at No10 Downing Street (official residence and office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), stepping down in 2019.
    • Muriel Gray- She is the former Chair of the Board of Governors at The Glasgow School Of Art and a Trustee of the British Museum.
    • Chris Jones-He is a chartered accountant who was a Senior Audit Partner at PwC specialising in the audit of banks and other financial services companies.
    • Charlotte Moore-She has been Controller of BBC One since June 2013.
    • Michael Plaut-He is a former Chair of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Wales, he is Chair of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and a Governor of the University of South Wales.
    • Sir Nicholas Serota CH-He is Chair of Arts Council England, a post he took up in February 2017. Previously he spent almost 30 years as Director of Tate.
    • Michael Smyth CBE KC (Hon)-He is an experienced lawyer and regulator. He was for 20 years a partner at international law firm Clifford Chance and head of the firm’s government and public policy practice.
    • Marinella Soldi-She was CEO of Discovery Networks Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France) for 10 years. Before joining Discovery, she trained and worked for leading international brands in the technology and media sectors as a leadership coach for nine years.
    • Leigh Tavaziva-She was Managing Director of Customer Operations at British Gas and Group Director of Strategy and Transformation at Centrica.
    • Deborah Turness-She was CEO of ITNand the first president of NBC News International, the global arm of American news network NBC News.

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