Michael Jackson, Esq

Career: organiser Channel Four Gp (pressure gp campaigning for independent access to fourth channel) 1979-81, freelance prodr 1981-82, fndr Beat Productions (progs for C4 incl The Media Show, Open the Box and Whose Town Is It Anyway?) 1983-87; BBC Television: joined 1987, ed The Late Show BBC2 1988-90, ed Late Show Productions (incl Naked Hollywood, Moving Picture, The Lime Grove Story) 1990-91, head of music and arts 1991-93, controller BBC2 1993-96, dir of television and controller BBC1 1996-97; chief exec Channel Four Television Corporation 1997-2001, chm Universal Television Gp USA 2002-04, pres of programming IAC/InterActiveCorp 2006-; non-exec dir EMI Gp plc 1999-2002; chm Photographer's Gallery London 2001-02