Jenny Abramsky (born 7 October 1946) is Director of BBC Audio 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. is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Chimen Abramsky, born March 5, 1917, is emeritus Professor at University College London. ... Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky (7 February 1886 (near Most and Grodno, Lithuania) – 19 September 1976) was one of the worlds most eminent Orthodox rabbis of the 20th century. ... Holland Park School was opened in London, UK, in 1958 and was the first purpose built comprehensive school. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a leading campus university located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, founded as part of the British Governments New Universities programme in the 1960s. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

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 agenda-setting 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. The World at One, or WATO for short, is BBC Radio 4s long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, which is broadcast from 1pm to 1:30pm from Monday to Friday. ... Look up today in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Scud FM was the name given by the journalists to the BBC radio rolling news service that was on air during the first Gulf War from 16 January until 2 March 1991. ... BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ... BBC News 24 is the BBCs 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom. ... BBC News Online is the BBCs news web site and part of bbc. ...

Abramsky became Director of BBC Radio in January 1999 and has been further promoted since. She is a member of the BBC's 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. In 2006 she became Director of Audio and Music – adding online services, audio on demand and podcasting to her remit of broadcast radio. BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ... A Promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall, 2004. ... An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. ...

She is married to Alasdair Liddell, former head of planning for the NHS, who quit to go into private business. Their son is a director and producer of science programmes, and her daughter is a producer for ITV. “NHS” redirects here. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting...

In the first three months of 2007, the BBC's radio stations had a reach of almost 33.5 million people – a record, 9 July 2007's London's up-market Guardian daily reported. It listed Abramsky as the 18th most powerful person in the UK's media. She had an annual programing budget of £236 million (about US $474.68 mn) and a staff of 1,681. She might have led the BBC into 2007 with an audience share of 56.6 percent – compared with the 13.9 percent of listeners shared by all commercial radio broadcasters – but she had slipped from No. 11 in the paper's 2006 ranking of the top media executives.[1] For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...

External links

• Jenny Abramsky's biography on the BBC website

See also

• List of British Jews