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= Clive Jones (Media Executive) = Clive Jones CBE (born 10 January 1949) is a British television executive and chairman of the Disasters Emergency Committee, the Runnymede Trust and the National Theatre of Wales. He worked at ITV for more than thirty years, holding a range of senior posts including three years as Chief Executive of News and Regions.

Early Life and Education
The son of a coalminer, Jones grew up in the mining valleys of South Wales, winning a place at the New Bridge Grammar School before studying economics and politics at the London School of Economics.

Journalism & Broadcasting
Jones started his working life in print journalist working first at the Yorkshire Post and then the Sheffield Morning Telegraph. He then moved into television news at Yorkshire Television where he ultimately produced and edited regional and network programmes for four years.

He is known for his role in rescuing ITV’s first breakfast franchise TV-AM alongside

Greg Dyke after its disastrous launch. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/profile-clive-jones-an-eye-for-the-bigger-picture-1104097.html Jones was successively Managing Editor, Editor then Editor in Chief of TV-AM before joining up with Dyke again as Controller of News, Current Affairs and Sport at Television South (TVS), later becoming the station’s Chief Operating Officer. In the early nineties he was Managing Editor of the London News Network, the joint venture company created by Carlton and LWT, that created the first ITV seven day news service in the capital and established what became the first ITV Network transmission centre. Jones then moved to Birmingham to become Managing Director of Central Television, one of the ITV “Big Five” with the peak time shows Inspector Morse, Peak Practice, The Cook Report and Soldier, Soldier. In 1996 became Chief Executive of the Carlton Television Group, which was to encompass the ITV licences for Carlton (London Weekday), Central, West Country and HTV (Wales and West) by the time Jones took it into the merger with Granada in 2004 to become ITV plc. From 2002-2004 Jones was also Managing Director of the ITV Network. From 2004 until 2007 he was one of the three executive directors of ITV serving as Chief Executive of News and Regions, while also overseeing ITV’s Compliance, Sport, Technology and its switch to digital terrestrial transmission. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jan/10/ITV.broadcasting

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While at ITV he founded the Cultural Diversity Network (CDN) of which all major UK broadcasters are members and served as chair for its first three years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/10_october/09/greg_dyke_cdn.shtml

He left ITV in 2007, but stayed on in the role of Chairman of GMTV until 2010. Jones maintains links with ITV as a director of their pension funds. https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/itv-pension-scheme

Jones was a director of S4C, the Welsh national broadcaster, and its commercial arm S4C

Masnachol from 2007 to 2012. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/apr/20/broadcasting.television1

http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/news/newsdetail.asp?newsID=6027

He has been chairman of Procam, the biggest broadcast facilities hire company in the UK

in 2013 and is also Chair of Provenance Pictures, the feature film and TV drama

production company based in Swansea.

https://www.nationaltheatrewales.org/news/clive-jones-cbe-named-new-chair-national-theatre-wales%E2%80%99-board

Voluntary & Public Sector Appointments
He chairs the Runnymede Trust and was a member of the National Advisory Committee on Cultural and Creative Education for the Blair government. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/profile-clive-jones-an-eye-for-the-bigger-picture-1104097.html

He was a board member of the Young Vic theatre and on the board of the National Film and Television School. https://www.nationaltheatrewales.org/news/clive-jones-cbe-named-new-chair-national-theatre-wales%E2%80%99-board

Jones was chair of London Metropolitan University for six years. The university made him an

Honorary Doctor of Letters in 2017 http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/articles/new-chair-and-governors-appointed-to-the-board-of-governors/ and for five years he was a Visiting Professor to the

Cardiff University School of Journalism. http://www.nctj.com/latestnews/Clive-Jones-CBE-joins-stellar-line-up-for-Journalism-Skills-Conference-next-week He also sits as a trustee of the Thomson Foundation. http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/network/trustees/clive-jones/

For eight years he served as the Chairman of Creative Skillset, the sector skills council for

television, film, advertising, new media and fashion and now chairs its Board of Patrons. http://creativeskillset.org/about_us/structure_and_governance/board_of_patrons

Personal Life
Jones is married to Vikki Heywood CBE, the Chair of the Royal Society of the Arts and former Managing Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/apr/07/itv.television1

Honours
In 1999, Jones won the Windrush award for improving opportunities for ethnic minorities in Broadcasting.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/profile-clive-jones-an-eye-for-the-bigger-picture-1104097.html

He was made a fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1997 and given its gold medal, its

highest award, in 2007. In the same year he was awarded a CBE for services to broadcasting.

https://www.nationaltheatrewales.org/news/clive-jones-cbe-named-new-chair-national-theatre-wales%E2%80%99-board