{"id":5676,"date":"2014-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2014\/12\/12\/damian-kavanagh-to-lead-bbc-three\/"},"modified":"2014-12-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T00:00:00","slug":"damian-kavanagh-to-lead-bbc-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2014\/12\/12\/damian-kavanagh-to-lead-bbc-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Kavanagh to Lead BBC Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tLONDON: Damian Kavanagh, the BBC&#039;s controller of daytime, has been tapped as the digital controller for BBC Three, ahead of its move online.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKavanagh will take up the new post in January 2015. He has been serving as BBC Three project lead, spearheading plans for the proposal to move the service from a linear channel to online-only.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKavanagh said: &quot;BBC Three is unique and I feel privileged to lead it in these exciting &#039;digital&#039; times. We look forward to making people laugh and think, separately, concurrently and frequently with our continued commitment to comedy, factual and drama.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDanny Cohen, the BBC&#039;s director of television, commented: &ldquo;Damian did a brilliant interview in a very competitive field. His background at CBBC means he has great experience already with young audiences and their love of digital content. A digital BBC Three is going to be a huge team effort, requiring the BBC and the industry to work together in new ways for a new age. I&#039;m very confident that Damian will lead this with passion, innovation and a commitment to the highest quality content.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Damian Kavanagh, the BBC&#039;s controller of daytime, has been tapped as the digital controller for BBC Three, ahead of its move online. Kavanagh will take up the new post in January 2015. 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