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14/05/2004
BBC Four chief moves across to head up BBC Two
BBC Director of Television Jana Bennett has announced the appointment of Roly Keating as the new Controller of BBC Two.
Keating, currently the Controller of BBC Four, will take up his new role in June when he becomes Jana Bennett's first channel controller appointment. Ms Bennett said that BBC Two was a channel where different and specialist passions can come together, where growing new comedy can sit comfortably with landmark factual series and innovative drama.
"But it is also a channel which has to operate in a very busy market and I can't think of anyone who could more brilliantly articulate why BBC Two has a special place at the heart of our national life than Roly Keating," she added.
Roly Keating said that being asked to take leadership of the channel was a "huge honour, and frankly a bit daunting".
"But I'm also incredibly excited: it's a channel I've grown up with, and like millions of other people it's given me some of my most memorable viewing experiences," he said.
"Jane Root is leaving it in strong creative health, and I'm looking forward to the challenge of building on her formidable legacy."
Roly Keating joined the BBC as a General Trainee in 1983 and rose to become Controller of BBC Four in December 2001. He led the launch of the channel in March 2002 - which is regularly beating competitor channels such as Discovery and The History Channel.
Under Keating's control, the channel has won numerous awards in its two years of existence, including a BAFTA for ‘The National Trust’.
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Keating, currently the Controller of BBC Four, will take up his new role in June when he becomes Jana Bennett's first channel controller appointment. Ms Bennett said that BBC Two was a channel where different and specialist passions can come together, where growing new comedy can sit comfortably with landmark factual series and innovative drama.
"But it is also a channel which has to operate in a very busy market and I can't think of anyone who could more brilliantly articulate why BBC Two has a special place at the heart of our national life than Roly Keating," she added.
Roly Keating said that being asked to take leadership of the channel was a "huge honour, and frankly a bit daunting".
"But I'm also incredibly excited: it's a channel I've grown up with, and like millions of other people it's given me some of my most memorable viewing experiences," he said.
"Jane Root is leaving it in strong creative health, and I'm looking forward to the challenge of building on her formidable legacy."
Roly Keating joined the BBC as a General Trainee in 1983 and rose to become Controller of BBC Four in December 2001. He led the launch of the channel in March 2002 - which is regularly beating competitor channels such as Discovery and The History Channel.
Under Keating's control, the channel has won numerous awards in its two years of existence, including a BAFTA for ‘The National Trust’.
(gmcg)
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