About Stuart Prebble
Stuart Colin Prebble (15 April 1951 – 21 August 2025) was a British television executive who was Chairman of Storyvault Films, and was CEO of ITV, Granada Sky Broadcasting and of ITV Digital. == Early life and career == Prebble was educated at Newcastle University, where he was editor of student newspaper The Courier and later president of the students' union. After leaving university he was producer and editor of the World In Action current affairs series and went on to be Head of Factual Programmes at Granada TV and Controller of Factual Programmes for the ITV network. He was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Factual Series for World in Action and won the RTS "best factual series" award for Network First. He was promoted to CEO of ITV in April, 2001, after ITV struggled to find a replacement CEO for well over a year. In March 2002 he was CEO of ITV Digital when it was forced into administration. In 2000, Prebble had agreed to pay £315 million over three years for TV rights to the Football League, but low user penetration, a conflict over carriage rights with Sky and high debt led ITV Digital's parent investors to walk away. In Autumn 2002 he left ITV to set up an independent television production company based in London and the North East called Liberty Bell. The company produced a wide range of factual programmes for all of the UK terrestrial broadcasters. He was the executive producer and writer of the 2003 - 2004 Grumpy Old Men series for BBC2.
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