David McCall (businessman)

David Slesser McCall CBE is a Scottish businessman and former broadcasting executive. He was Chief Executive of Anglia Television in Norwich throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s.

Career

From 1959-61 he did his National Service.

Anglia Television

He joined Anglia Television Limited in Norwich in 1968, becoming Chief Executive in 1976. From 1986-94 he was also Chief Executive of Anglia Television Group, and Chairman from 1994-98. He retired as Chairman of Anglia Television in May 2001.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1988. He is a former president of the.

Channel 4

In the early 1980s he helped to establish Channel 4.

Personal life

In the 1988 New Year Honours, he was appointed a CBE. He married Lois Elder in 1968. He lives in Redenhall in South Norfolk, on the Suffolk boundary, off the A143.