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Jana Bennett is a British television executive and former President of BBC Worldwide. She was born in 1955 in London, England. Bennett attended the University of Oxford, where she earned a degree in English Literature. She began her career in television in 1979, working as a researcher for the BBC. She went on to become a producer and director, working on a variety of programs, including the BBC's flagship news program, Newsnight. In 2000, Bennett was appointed Director of Television at the BBC, becoming the first woman to hold the position. In this role, she was responsible for the BBC's television output, including the launch of digital channels BBC Three and BBC Four. In 2004, Bennett was appointed President of BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC. In this role, she was responsible for the BBC's international television channels, as well as its production and distribution businesses. She left the role in 2011. Bennett is currently the President of the Royal Television Society, a role she has held since 2013. As of 2021, Jana Bennett's net worth is estimated to be approximately $10 million.

Popular As Jana Eve Bennett
Occupation Media executive
Age 67 years old
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Birthplace Cooperstown, New York, U.S.
Date of death January 11, 2022
Died Place Oxfordshire, England
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2013

She joined A+E Networks in June 2013 as President of The Biography Channel (bio) and Lifetime Movie Network (LMN). bio was rebranded as fyi, in July 2014.

2012

Bennett left BBC Worldwide in 2012 following a reorganisation of the company.

In June 2012 Bennett was appointed at President of The Biography Channel (bio) and Lifetime Movie Network (LMN) at A+E Networks in New York.

2011

Prior to joining A+E Networks she was President of BBC Worldwide Networks and Global BBC iPlayer. In that role she was responsible for BBC Worldwide's television channels, which operate in more than 100 countries, and the development and roll out of the commercial global iPlayer. She was also Worldwide's Managing Director for Latin America with oversight of the company's businesses in the region. She sat on Worldwide's Executive Board and on the Board of UKTV, Britain's second largest pay-TV group. She took up this role in February 2011 moving from the BBC's UK public service where she had been Director of Vision at the BBC from 2006. As Director of BBC Vision, she headed "the largest multi-media production, commissioning and broadcast group of its kind in the world" with overall responsibility for BBC Television and its online services, BBC Films and BBC Productions. Previously she was Director of Television (appointed January 2002). In her two most recent roles at the BBC, Jana Bennett "steered the BBC TV portfolio through its transition into the mainstream digital age."

Bennett was appointed to BBC Worldwide as President, Worldwide Networks and Global iPlayer in February 2011.

Bennett is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts' and Sciences' Executive Committee and of the Advisory Board of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. She is a trustee of Comic Relief and fellow of the Royal Television Society. She is on the board of Women in Film and Television and in 2011 and 2012 she was included in the WFTV power list.

2010

Jana Bennett also implemented the BBC's out of London strategy for commissioning and production. In 2010 she launched the BBC's year of science across television, radio and online. In the same year she established BBC One HD, `the biggest sign yet that HD is now part of the mainstream', and also announced a major new Shakespeare Season.

2007

Her division was also heavily involved in the planning and launch of the corporation's on-demand service, BBC iPlayer, providing 400 hours content for the service each week. In a speech to the Royal Television Society in 2007, she articulated a fresh approach to the BBC's mission to inform and educate in the digital era. She also championed new multi-media approaches to major fundraising entertainment events. In partnership with Comic Relief, the BBC produced the first truly digital Red Nose Day in 2009.

2006

In 2006 the BBC's Director-General, Mark Thompson reorganised the BBC's divisional structure, creating BBC Vision from the amalgamation of the corporation's Television, Drama Entertainment & Children's and Factual & Learning divisions. Bennett was promoted from Director of Television to Director of Vision taking "overall creative and leadership responsibility" for the commissioning, production and scheduling of television, video and online content across the BBC's analogue and digital television networks (excluding the BBC News and Parliament channels), the web, mobile phones and interactive technology.

2002

In 2002 Bennett returned to the UK to take the job of Director of Television. In this capacity she took charge of the launch and expansion of the BBC's portfolio of 7 digital TV channels: BBC THREE, BBC FOUR, HD TV and the children's channels, CBBC and CBeebies This included winning the approval of the government for the launch of BBC THREE, the corporation's youth orientated digital television channel, which at the time was considered by some to be a controversial development for the BBC.

2001

At TLC Bennett transformed the channel's ratings and revenue performance. She introduced a new editorial direction under the slogan "Life Unscripted" which included reality-drama and interior design shows, some of them based on popular British formats. The audience success of shows like Trading Spaces, and Junkyard Wars exemplified a shift in programming towards more mass-appeal shows. By 2001 TLC had the youngest adult audience profile amongst US cable channels with a median age of 40 and a 15% year on year growth in audience among the 18- to 34-year-old age group. It was also the strongest performing network for women in daytime.

2000

In 2000 she was appointed an OBE in 2000 for her work in science broadcasting.

1999

Bennett is a member of the governing board of the Pew Research Center. She is also a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1999.

1997

She joined the BBC's Board of Management in 1997 as Director of Production, then became Director of Programmes for the former BBC Production division until she left the BBC to join Discovery Communications as General Manager of the TLC channel in August 1999.

1994

In 1994 she was appointed the BBC's Head of Science, the first woman to take that role. Under her leadership the department expanded the range and ambition of its programming, winning awards for series such as Walking With Dinosaurs, The Human Body and Meet The Ancestors and business formats such as Blood on the Carpet, Back to the Floor and the medical format Trust Me, I'm a Doctor. She introduced a new animal genre to UK television with the highly successful and long-running Animal Hospital, alongside live events such as Hospitalwatch. The science department also pioneered content rich web sites and was one of the first areas to use email inside the BBC.

1990

In 1990 she became editor of the BBC's flagship science programme Horizon. Awards she won during this period included the 1991 News and Documentary Emmy for her role as Executive Producer of the film "Suicide Mission to Chernobyl" which also aired on the WGBH program Nova in the United States.

1986

She became an award-winning producer of Panorama in 1986, and co-authored The Disappeared: Voices from a Secret War with the BBC's diplomatic editor John Simpson about the actions of Argentina's military government in the same year.

1979

In 1979 she won a place on the BBC News trainee scheme, and began her first period of employment with the corporation working on radio and television news; BBC Newcastle's Look North and Radio Sheffield. She worked on Nationwide, The Money Programme and Newsnight.

1969

Born in Cooperstown, New York State, USA, Bennett moved to Britain in 1969, where she was educated at Bognor Regis Comprehensive School, then studied politics, philosophy and economics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She undertook post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics where she was awarded an MSc (Dist) for her work on strategic analysis and international and defence studies.

1955

Jana Eve Bennett OBE (born 1955) is a media consultant; member of the board of the British Library; member of the board of the Headlong Theatre Company; and Adviser to Ozy Media. Previously she was President and General Manager of History and H2 at A+E Networks in New York.