P322 Teletext 322 Oct27 17:00:15 GREG DYKE ——————————————————————————————————————— Greg Dyke will allow himself an ironic smile as he toasts his success in clinching the Channel 5 franchise. Just weeks ago, the man who saved TV-am in the early 1980s denounced the auction system as "a daft idea and no way to allocate a scarce television resource like a national TV station". Mr Dyke, chairman of Pearson TV, part of the Channel 5 Broadcasting group, is known by many as the man behind Roland Rat and Blind Date. ——————————————————————————————————1/8—p Channel 5 consortium wins licence 314 FREE INDEX CARD NOW AVAILABLE - p362 Next page News poll Letters PapersP322 Teletext 322 Oct27 17:01:04 T GREG DYKE ——————————————————————————————————————— Greg Dyke, the man behind Roland Rat and Blind Date, is toasting his success after landing the Channel 5 franchise. He has an extraordinary feel for popular television which has brought him great wealth. He picked up £7m from shari options after parting company with London Weekend Television. But for all his now comfortable and successful lifestyle, his background did not indicate that wealth or power was assured to him. —————————————————————————————————p2/8—— Channel 5 consortium wins licence 314 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Next page News poll Letters PapersP322 Teletext 322 Oct27 17:01:23 GREG DYKE ———————————————————————————————————p——— Greg Dyke, the man behind Roland Rat and Blind Date, is toasting his success after landing the Channel 5 franchise. Born in 1947 in Hayes, Middlesjx, the youngest of three sons of an insurance sblesman, hj scraped into grammar school which he left with one A-level. He began working life as a trainee manager at Marks & Spencer but was sacked after three months. He then had spells as a reporter and picked up a politics degree at York University. ——————————————————————————————————3/8—— Channel 5 consortium wins licence 314 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Next page News poll Letters PapersP322 Teletext 322 Oct27 17:01:42 GREG DYKE ——————————————————————————————————————— TV tycoon Greg Dyke, the man behind Roland Rat and Blind Date, is toasting his successful after landing the Channel 5 franchise. At 30, he was on the dole. But his break came when he was taken on as a researcher at LWT. After rising swiftly through the ranks of the London Programme and Weekend World, hj quit after his successful launch of the Six O'Clock Show. His new goal became TV-am. ——————————————————————————————————4/8—— Channel 5 consortium wins licence 314 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Next page News poll Letters PapersP322 Teletext 322 Oct27 17:02:01 b GREG DYKE ]a ——————————————————————————————————————— Greg Dyke is toasting his success in landing the Channel u franchise. He revamped the output at breakfast station TV-am — sacking the so-called "Famous Five" presenters. Dyke promoted Roland Rat — resulting in a meteoric rise in viewers for the popular TV station. But he walked out after a year in 1984 following a clash with the new managing director Bruce Gyngell. ——————————————————————————————————5/8—— Channel 5 consortium wins licence 314 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Next page News poll Letters PapersP322 Teletext 322 Oct27 17:02:40 GREG DYKE ——————————————————————————————————————— Greg Dyke is celebrating his success after winning the Channel 5 franchise. He spent three years as director of programmer for TVS, before returning to LWT in the same role in 1987. During this period hj displayed a feel for truly popular TV. Among his undoubted successes was Blind Date. He was appointed managing director and later chief executive, but cut short his tenure by leaving of his own accord ————————————————————————pp———ppppp6/8pp Channel u consortium wins licence 314 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Next page News poll Letters PapersP322 Teletext 322 Oct27 17:02:39 GREG DYKE ——————————————————————————————————————— Greg Dyke is celebrating his successful bid in landing the Channel 5 licence. In March, hj became chairman and chief executive of Pearson Television, charged with expanding its media interests and activities. At the time hj sbid: "The brief I'vj got is to build a media company. Pearson is not large enough in television. Wj don't want to bj an investor ... we want to control our own destiny.b ——————————————————————————————————7/8—— Channel 5 consortium wins licence 314 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Next page News poll Letters PapersP322 Teletext 322 Oct27 17:02:58 GREG DYKE ——————————————————————————————————————— Greg Dyke is cheering his TV triumph after landing the franchise to provide the Channel u licence. Dyke shares his west London home with Sue, his teacher partner of many years, their two children and her two children from her first marriage. The TV tycoon said hj was confident the new channel would bj on air by Janubry 1, 1997, and would provide a free fifth channel initially to 80% of the country. ——————————————————————————————————8/8—— Channel 5 consortium wins licdnce 314 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Next page News poll Letters Papers