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Vale: Nigel Dick

Pioneering media exec, who held positions at Nine, Seven & Crawfords, died earlier this month.

Pioneering media executive Nigel Dick, who held positions at Nine, Seven, Crawford Productions, died earlier this month, aged 89.

Dick held many varied roles over his lifetime and worked in the media industry since 1948.

Nigel Dick AM was a former Chairman of HSV 7, Southern Cross Communications and Chief Executive of GTV 9, TCN 9 and the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand. His extraordinary career as a media executive, consultant and director spanned over 50 years with media companies, public companies and charities.

Between 1956 and 1988, a time of huge change in broadcasting, Dick worked in several companies as a television and radio executive and saw first hand the evolution of the industry in Australia.

During a long and distinguished career he worked at the highest levels of the Australian television industry in executive roles with the Networks as well as Federal Councillor of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations (FACTS), and Director of and consultant to Crawford Productions Pty Ltd., Deputy Chairman and founding board member of the Victorian Film Corporation (now Film Victoria); Assistant Managing Director of Television Corporation Ltd (now Nine Network), and Director of Television and Broadcasting for the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, to name just a few.

In his 80s, he remained working as a media consultant and researcher and completed a PhD on the present and future shape of free-to-air television in Australia at the University of Melbourne.

In 2011, he gave the Hector Crawford address at the annual SPAA conference.

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