Jeremy Isaacs

Jeremy Isaacs
Born
Jeremy Israel Isaacs

(1932-09-28) 28 September 1932 (age 92)
Alma materMerton College, Oxford
OccupationTelevision executive
Years active1958–2000

Sir Jeremy Israel Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) is a Scottish television producer and executive, and an opera manager.

Following a career at Granada Television, the BBC and Thames Television, Isaacs was the founding chief executive of Channel 4 in 1982, serving in the role until 1987. He won the BAFTA Fellowship in 1985, the British Film Institute Fellowship in 1986, and the International Emmy Directorate Award in 1987. He was also the General Director of the Royal Opera House from 1987 to 1996. A recipient of many British Academy Television Awards and International Emmy Awards, Isaacs was knighted in the 1996 Birthday Honours "for services to Broadcasting and to the Arts."[1]

  1. ^ "No. 54427". The London Gazette. 14 June 1996. p. 2.