Category: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ; Northern Ireland
Date: 14.07.2006
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Anna Carragher, Controller of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Northern Ireland for the past six years, has announced that she will retire in October, after 36 years in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ. The recruitment process for her successor will start immediately.
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Anna Carragher said: "I feel both privileged and proud to have had a long and varied career with the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and I am particularly proud to have been Head of Programmes, Head of Broadcasting and Controller, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Northern Ireland at a time of great change both in the industry and in Northern Ireland.
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"I've worked with great people and we've made great programmes. I shall miss the staff of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Northern Ireland immensely - and want to thank them all for all the achievements of the last decade."
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Paying tribute to Anna Carragher, Pat Loughrey, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Director of Nations and Regions, said: "Throughout her career Anna has been an outstanding editorial leader and one of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's most distinguished journalists.
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"Initially as Head of Programmes and then as Northern Ireland's first female Controller, she has led the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's affairs through a period of real challenge but also of great opportunity - including record-breaking audience figures and a host of UK-wide awards for radio and television."
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Professor Fabian Monds, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's National Governor for Northern Ireland, said: "Anna has led Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Northern Ireland through a period of significant change and modernisation with energy, flair and imagination.
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"She has overseen the enhancement of local and
network output, delivering improved quality and diversity and earning
strong audience appreciation.
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"She has positioned Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Northern Ireland very favourably for the digital broadcasting era.
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"I am especially grateful for her enthusiastic
commitment to improving the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's accountability to local audiences
and for ensuring and effective and efficient relationship between
management and the Broadcasting Council for Northern Ireland. I wish
her every continuing success in the future."
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Anna Carragher joined the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ as a studio manager in London in 1970 after graduating from Queen's University, Belfast. She became a producer on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio
4's Today programme in 1975, worked as the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Radio News producer in New York in 1977, then moved to television in 1982 to join the launch team of Breakfast
Time (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE).
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She then worked on Newsnight (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TWO) and from 1985 to 1989 was the producer of Question
Time (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE).
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In 1989 she returned to radio as the producer of Radio 4's Any Questions?, then
edited European and Correspondent programmes for the network and for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Five Live.
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She became Head of Programmes, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Northern Ireland, in 1995 (re-designated Head of Broadcasting the following year) and Controller in September 2000.
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She is a member of Business in the Community and of Rajar (Radio Joint Audience Research Ltd), a trustee of the Grand Opera House, Belfast and a member of The Sony Radio Academy Awards Committee.
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