Jana Bennett Dies: “Trailblazing” Former BBC TV Boss And History President Was 66

Jana Bennett Dies: Former BBC TV Boss And History President Was 66

Bennett was open about her rare condition glioblastoma multiforme in an interview with London’sin 2019, at which point she revealed she had become a trustee of OurBrainBank, a cancer research app allowing GBM patients to share their symptoms with clinicians.

The powerhouse of British and U.S. TV was born in New York State in 1955 and moved to Britain in 1969, studying at Oxford before winning a place on the BBC News trainee scheme. During her nine-year tenure overseeing all BBC programming, she was responsible for the launch of hit formats includingand dramas including She steered the early years of BBC iPlayer and was responsible for the corporation’s landmark out-of-London strategy that saw 3,000 roles created in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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