David McCall (businessman)

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David Slesser McCall CBE (born 3 December 1934)^[1] is a Scottish businessman and former broadcasting executive. He was Chief Executive of Anglia Television in Norwich throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s.

From 1959-61 he did his National Service.

He joined Anglia Television Limited in Norwich in 1968, becoming Chief Executive in 1976. From 1986-94 he was also Chief Executive of Anglia Television Group, and Chairman from 1994-98. He retired as Chairman of Anglia Television in May 2001.^[2]

He became a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1988. He is a former president of the (CTBF). ^{[citation needed]}

In the early 1980s he helped to establish Channel 4. ^{[citation needed]}

In the 1988 New Year Honours, he was appointed a CBE. He married Lois Elder in 1968. ^{[citation needed]} He lives in Redenhall in South Norfolk, on the Suffolk boundary (River Waveney), off the A143.^{[citation needed]}

• East Anglian Film Archive biography (Arts and Humanities Research Council)