Michael Grade

Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, CBE (born 8 March 1943) is an English television executive and businessman. He was chairman of the BBC from 2004 to 2006 and executive chairman of ITV plc from 2007 to 2009. Since 2011 he has been a Conservative Party life peer in the House of Lords.

Early life

Grade was born into a Jewish show business family originally called Winogradsky; his father was the theatrical agent Leslie Grade and his uncles were the impresarios Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont. When he was three years old his mother left the family to conduct a relationship with wrestling commentator Kent Walton. Grade was brought up by his grandmother, and only saw his non-Jewish mother once more as an adult. He was educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire and St Dunstan's College in London.

Career

Grade joined the Daily Mirror in 1960, and was a sports columnist from 1964 to 1966. By his own account (as related on Channel 4 chat show The Late Clive James), the job had been organised by his father. When Leslie Grade suffered a serious stroke in 1966, the 23-year-old Michael moved into his theatrical business. In 1969, he moved to London Management & Representation. Among the artists whom Grade represented were Morecambe and Wise (he successfully negotiated the duo's defection from ATV to BBC2 in 1968) and Larry Grayson.

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"Given the impoverished state of the counties, I realise the England and Wales Cricket Board faced a difficult decision,"
"We have lost a national treasure - a comic actor of real genius."
"I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better."
"We have lost a national treasure."
"One estimate suggests that in 10 years time, 10 to 15 percent of all available new content could come from new providers, such as one-man bands, back-yard productions or people sharing a particular passion, such as fly-fishing."
"The media world is changing out of all recognition. Technology has to have a seat at the table."
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A King In A Cattle Trough

by: Michael Card

How do you capture the ascents of angels?
How do you put words to the taste of their light?
You cannot describe how their words burn right thru you
How you became dizzy with heart pounding fright
In the midst of your fear, how they sang you a song
To the glory of God most High
How all of a sudden, that when they departed
That they left a hole in the sky
How do you worship a king in a cattle trough?
When you cannot bow any lower than he?
And what king of gift to give Someone with nothing?
In humiliating humility
Wrapped up in rags, what a heart-breaking sign
Yet on his sweet face, what a delight
The darkness that prows here cannot comprehend
This impossibly bright point of light
So everyone listened in awe and amazement
To all we’d been told ‘bout this beautiful boy
But Mary, his mother, she wordlessly wondered
And pondered her treasure of joy
Who could conceive how the Savior was born
In a place only fit for the cattle to feed
His poverty made him our perfect Provision
The one hope for our every need
2010 Covenant Artists, ASCAP
guitar, vocals, Michael Card
bass, Keith Compton




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