UKTV and BBC Studios restructure commercial team

Ella Sagar

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November 18, 2022

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1 minute

In brief: UKTV and BBC Studios have appointed Jonathan Newman as general manager, commercial as part of a restructure.

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Ella Sagar Ella Sagar is a reporter for The Media Leader and leads our audio and out-of-home coverage. She joined in September 2021 and has a gold standard NCTJ. She previously wrote for the South West Londoner, Ealing Times, and The Hillingdon Times. At the University of Leeds, she received a First Class Honours Degree in French and Spanish with distinction in speaking and during her time there regularly presented radio shows on Leeds Student Radio, wrote for the student paper The Gryphon and was editor of Her Campus Leeds.

UKTV and BBC Studios have appointed Jonathan Newman as general manager, commercial, as part of a restructure.

Sam Tewunga, chief commercial officer at BBC Studios for the UK Region, said the commercial teams restructure was to “focus more effectively on the Region’s strategic priorities”.

Newman takes on the new role immediately and will be responsible for all commercial activity, except advertising, across the UK region, including strategy, profit and loss responsibility, businesses development and BBC Group corporate development.

He will also head up the UKTV Distribution team, BBC Studios Content Sales team, its media-for-equity fund UKTV Ventures and Content Funding.