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Peter Salmon has been appointed Director, 成人快手 North. He is currently 成人快手 Vision's Chief Creative Officer, responsible for the Corporation's new in-house multimedia broadcasting and production centre in the division, and takes up his new position in mid-2009.

He will join the 成人快手's Executive Board in 2010 as the 成人快手's new home in Salford Quays nears completion.

Peter, who will be based in Salford Quays, will lead the development of the world's most advanced broadcasting centre.

This will involve the largest move of staff and departments out of London in the 成人快手's history. On completion the centre will house 2,500 staff, with approximately 1,500 jobs moving there from London.

In his new role he will be directly responsible for 成人快手 Sport, and all its activities; the radio networks 成人快手 Radio 5 Live and 5 Live Sports Extra; and 成人快手 Children's, including programme-making, commissioning and broadcasting of its C成人快手 and CBeebies channels.

The Director, 成人快手 North, will hold and be accountable for the service licences, granted by the 成人快手 Trust, for 成人快手 Radio 5 Live, 5 Live Sports Extra, and the C成人快手 and CBeebies channels.

The Controller, 成人快手 Radio 5 Live and the Controller, 成人快手 Children's will retain a close working relationship with the Directors of 成人快手 Audio & Music and 成人快手 Vision respectively and will continue to be members of their senior management teams.

Peter will have managerial oversight of 成人快手 Learning and the significant number of Future Media & Technology staff who will move to the new centre from London, along with a strong regional broadcasting operation and the network production departments from the 成人快手's current Manchester base (factual, religion, entertainment, drama, comedy, current affairs and music, including the 成人快手 Philharmonic Orchestra).

However, final budgetary and editorial control of these areas will rest with existing 成人快手 Groups as now.

The 成人快手's operations are currently based in Oxford Road, Manchester, but they will move a few miles to the new Salford Quays base as part of a major development called MediaCityUK from 2011.

Peter will continue in his current role in charge of in-house programme-making until mid-2009, though he will begin to take up some of his new responsibilities from January 2009, initially working to Caroline Thomson, the 成人快手's Chief Operating Officer, who is currently the executive sponsor of the Salford Quays project.

In 2010 Salmon will join the 成人快手's Executive Board and report directly to the Director-General, Mark Thompson.

Announcing the appointment, Mark Thompson said: "The appointment of a Director to lead the move to Salford and its subsequent development is a huge step along the path to realising the 成人快手's ambition to produce half of its output outside of London by 2016.

"I cannot think of anyone better qualified than Peter to lead this bold venture which I believe will have significant impact across the 成人快手 as new ways of working and using technology are developed in practice.

"He has been an outstanding programme-maker and editorial leader and his experience stretches across most of the 成人快手's output, including Sport, 成人快手 One and now 成人快手 Vision Productions.

"Peter has a long and continuing connection with the North of England and is well known for his work at Granada.

"He rightly commands huge respect across the 成人快手 and the wider media industry and I am very pleased he has decided to accept this exciting new role."

Peter Salmon said: "This is the first big broadcasting venture of a new decade and can define the way the 成人快手 works for a generation.

"I want to help build a world-class, creative powerhouse for the 成人快手 based in the North of England but networked into the whole UK.

"I think this significant cluster of programme-making and broadcasting can be a magnet for other like-minded organisations too, from independent producers to facilities and technology companies, educational bodies to training groups for established and new media.

"Though I will be sad to move on next year from leading the 成人快手's in-house teams at Vision Productions – the biggest and best group of content-makers in the world – I am really happy that I will still be working with many of them in Salford Quays."

Caroline Thomson, Chief Operating Officer, 成人快手, said: "Peter is one of the outstanding editorial and creative leaders of his generation. He has presided over a period of tremendous success for 成人快手 Vision Productions.

"His passion for programme-making combined with his long-standing connection and commitment to the North of England means he is ideally placed to lead such a challenging and ground-breaking project."

Peter Salmon became Chief Creative Officer of 成人快手 Vision Productions in October 2006.

He currently oversees the work of about 3,000 people for 成人快手 in-house production, making programmes throughout the country.

成人快手 in-house production is the largest content creator in the world, responsible for the likes of Strictly Come Dancing, Doctor Who, Top Gear, Antiques Roadshow, Dragons' Den, Top Gear, Watchdog, EastEnders, Survivors, The One Show and many more programmes from bases all over the UK.

Peter started at the 成人快手 as a General Trainee in 1981 and, as a programme-maker, he eventually became 成人快手 Bristol's Head of Factual, in charge of shows like The Antiques Roadshow, CIA, 999 and Small Objects Of Desire.

Along the way he directed the first-ever film shown on Crimewatch UK before going on to produce the series; he was responsible for more than 40 environmental programmes for Bristol's Natural History Unit; he was co-creator of Sport Relief, 成人快手 One's companion piece to Comic Relief, which has so far raised £75m; he signed Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park to the 成人快手, where he then executive-produced Aardman Animation's Oscar-winning film The Wrong Trousers; he was producer on David Dimbleby's 成人快手 One history series Across The Great Divide; and he edited a major season of documentaries on 成人快手 Two, War And Peace, marking 50 years since the Second World War.

He also worked on Blue Peter, Newsnight and 成人快手 Radio 1's Newsbeat and Manchester's File On Four current affairs series.

Peter left the 成人快手 in the early Nineties and during his time in the commercial sector he oversaw some notable programmes.

As Director of Programmes at Granada in Manchester, his output ranged from World In Action to Reckless, Hillsborough to the first episode of Cold Feet, Coronation Street to The Royle Family.

As Controller of Factual Programmes for Channel 4, his teams won a record number of Baftas, RTS Awards and International Emmy awards as well as two consecutive Prix Italias.

From 1997 to 2000 Peter was Controller of 成人快手 One, where he commissioned new projects as diverse as Clocking Off, Waking The Dead, Holby City, Dinnerladies, My Family, Warriors, Wives And Daughters, MacIntyre Undercover and Walking With Beasts.

Then, from 2000 to 2005, as Director of Sport and a member of the 成人快手's Executive Board, his teams produced The Athens Olympics, plus successive World Cup and European football campaigns.

Peter pioneered sport interactive television at Wimbledon and the much-acclaimed Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, as well as the development of 成人快手 Sport online.

He also regained a number of key contracts for the Corporation, notably The Derby and Match Of The Day.

He left the 成人快手 in 2005 to become Chief Executive at independent production company The Television Corporation, but quit following a takeover in summer 2006.

Peter Salmon was born and brought up in Burnley, Lancashire.

Notes to Editors

1. The appointment of Peter Salmon as Director, 成人快手 North, was made by the 成人快手 Executive Board. The 成人快手 Trust has approved the position to join the membership of the 成人快手 Executive Board.

2. The post of Chief Creative Officer, 成人快手 Vision Productions will be advertised in due course.

3. Five 成人快手 London-based departments, including two TV channels and two radio stations, will move to MediaCityUK in Salford Quays in 2011. They are 成人快手 Children's (including C成人快手 and CBeebies); 成人快手 Formal Learning; parts of 成人快手 Future Media & Technology; 成人快手 Radio 5 Live (including 5 Live Sports Extra); and 成人快手 Sport.

4. The 成人快手 has already announced that it intends to base commissioning executives for daytime, comedy and learning programmes at Salford Quays, reporting directly to 成人快手 Vision. Commissioning executives for Children's will move with the two channels, reporting (through the channel controller) to Director, 成人快手 North.

5. The 成人快手 will be based in three new buildings at MediaCityUK, a 200-acre brownfield development and the UK's first media city. A separate studio block also forms part of the development, although this is not solely for the use of the 成人快手. [The 成人快手 does not own the buildings nor is it responsible for their construction or the site's development; these are all the responsibility of Peel Holdings.]

The mediacityUK consortium developing the site comprises Peel Holdings Ltd, the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company and Salford City Council. [The 成人快手 is not a member of the consortium, nor is it a partner in the development, but as the anchor tenant does have a place on the Steering Group.]

Final approval for the 成人快手 initiative was given by the 成人快手 Trust and agreement reached with the developer Peel Holdings on 31 May 2007. Preparatory work started on site in June 2007.

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