Dawn Airey to Join ITV as Director of Global Content

May 24, 2007 World Screen

LONDON, May 24: Dawn Airey, who recently quit as Iostar’s
chief executive, has been appointed as the director of global content at ITV
and will take up the post later this year, reporting to John Cresswell, ITV's
COO.

The appointment follows her resignation in April as the
chief executive officer of the production and distribution firm Iostar, which
has now gone into liquidation. TV Productions, Granada Ventures, Granada
International and ITV's international production businesses in Australia,
Germany and the U.S. will report into her. Together, these businesses generated
£652 million revenue in 2006, including £370 million of internal sales to ITV.

Cresswell commented: "This is great news for ITV and a
great job for Dawn. I'm delighted she's joining us to build the content
business which continues to be at the heart of our growth strategy."

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Airey added: "It's wonderful to return to my alma
mater. It's an incredibly exciting time to be joining ITV and I'm looking
forward to working with some of the U.K.'s best production talent. Together
with John Whiston and his creative team, I'm confident that we can deliver the
programs and content that Simon Shaps and his commissioners want in order to continue
the reinvigoration of ITV1. ITV has strong and growing international production
and distribution businesses and I'm thrilled about having the opportunity to
help develop them further."

Airey began her broadcasting
career as a management trainee for Central TV in 1985. In 1989 she became
director of programs planning at Central and was appointed to the Central
broadcasting board. In 1993 she moved to the ITV Network Centre as controller
of children's and daytime programs and in 1994 moved to Channel 4 to become
controller of arts and entertainment. In 1996 she was appointed director of
programs for Channel Five and was promoted to chief executive in 2000. In 2003
she was appointed managing director of Sky Networks. She left Sky earlier this
year to join the startup Iostar.