Jenny Abramsky
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Jenny Abramsky (born 7 October 1946) is Director of BBC Radio and Music. She is the daughter of Professor Chimen Abramsky and the granddaughter of Yehezkel Abramsky. She was educated at Holland Park School in London and the University of East Anglia, where she read English.
She rose from splicing audio tapes to become one of the most powerful broadcasters in the world, and unquestionably the most significant figure in radio. In 1969, Abramsky joined the BBC as a programmes operations assistant, and in 1973 was appointed as a producer of The World at One. She became the first woman editor of the Today programme, ran the first Gulf War Scud FM service, and went on to launch Britain's first continuous news and sport radio station, Five Live, before repeating the feat on TV with BBC News 24. She also launched the BBC's online news website, news.bbc.co.uk which became one of the world's most highly accessed websites.
Abramsky became Director of BBC Radio in January 1999 and has been further promoted since. She is a member of the BBC Executive Board and is responsible for BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, and Five Live; as well as the BBC digital radio stations 1Xtra, 6 Music, BBC 7, Five Live Sports Extra and the Asian Network; the three BBC orchestras based in England; and the Proms.
She is married to Alasdair Liddell, former head of planning for the NHS and now in private business. Their son is a director and producer of science programmes, and her daughter is a producer for ITV.
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