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- Jim Shaw
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- Jim
has wide experience of commercial broadcasting from involvement in a
number of countries. In the UK where he was a Director of Thames
Television, in Europe, Asia and in the USA where he was chairman of
the company he set up to market the airtime sales system, he
personally produced, and that of the company he bought from its US
owners. He was also a founder member of the European Commercial
Broadcasters Group.
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- Joined
ABC TV Ltd in 1955 as a Sales Executive.
- Appointed
London Sales Manager Thames TV Ltd with the change of
franchises in 1966.
Later appointed Sales Controller and then Director Sales and
Marketing.
In
the above tenure, chairman at one time or another of many industry committees
including
the following:
Marketing
Finance
Research
Acceptability of
advertisements.
New Technology.
Head
of TV Public Relations for the British Advertising Industry.
Director
of SAWA, the Screen Advertising World Awards festival in
Cannes
,
France
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Director
of McCann Erickson agency.
Director
Molinaire a post production facilities company.
Produced
the worlds first, real time, online, interactive computer system
to handle the sale of
airtime and set up appropriate companies in the UK, USA with Pete
Cash ex head of the TVB (US) and James T. Shaw ex Director Sales ABC TV (US), France and
Australia.
Founded
SKY Direct Satellite TV.
Contact Jim at jimshaw@commercialtelevision.biz
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