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    Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, CBE (born 8 March 1943) is an English television executive and businessman. He has held a number of senior...
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    programmes and ratings being over 20% behind ITV. Cotton recruited Michael Grade to become Controller of BBC1 from 1 September 1984 the first time the...
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  • Lew Grade, Baron Grade, OStJ (born Lev Winogradsky; 25 December 1906 – 13 December 1998) was a Russian-born British media proprietor and impresario. Originally...
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  • Brass Eye (redirect from Grade is a cunt)
    programme had been pulled by the then chief executive of Channel 4, Michael Grade, owing to the negative effect it might have had on the channel's upcoming...
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  • Michael Grade, admitted it should never have been aired. At its peak 18 million viewers watched it. Mason, Rowena (23 April 2009). "Michael Grade at...
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    buildings under three grades, with Grade I being the highest grade, as follows: Grade I: buildings that are of exceptional interest Grade II*: particularly...
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    received, and uses this information as a basis for its decisions. Michael Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth was appointed as chairman of Ofcom for a four-year...
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  • Lord Grade may refer to: Lew Grade, Baron Grade (1906–1998), Russian-born English impresario and media mogul. Michael Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth (born...
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    Controller of BBC1 at the time, Michael Grade, criticised Doctor Who, saying that the programme had become overly violent in 1985. Grade later admitted that he...
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  • operates a voluntary beef grading program that began in 1917. A meat processor pays for a trained AMS meat grader to grade whole carcasses at the abattoir...
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  • aviation pioneer Leslie Grade (1916–1979), British theatrical agent Lew Grade, Baron Grade (1906–1998), British impresario Michael Grade (born 1943), British...
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    The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers...
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  • when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire. Guests included Paul Fox, Brian Tesler, Michael Grade, and Billy Marsh. BBC Two...
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  • screen time for the season and an instruction from BBC1 controller Michael Grade that the series needed to contain less violence and more humour. Several...
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  • Retrieved 5 November 2017 – via www.theguardian.com. Tise Vahimagi & Michael Grade. British television: an illustrated guide. Oxford University Press,...
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  • mid-1960s, and the ownership of the Grade Organisation passed to Grade's son Michael in 1966. In 1967, the Grade Organisation was acquired by EMI and...
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  • production facilities. Grade's inability to grant them a series in colour led to their agent, Michael Grade (who happened to be Lew Grade's nephew) contacting...
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    Salisbury Cathedral (category Grade I listed cathedrals)
    Kiosk (Grade II) (1272821)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 June 2024. Historic England. "The King's House and College of Sarum St Michael (Grade...
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  • Zastrozzi). When handing over responsibility for running the channel to Michael Grade, Isaacs threatened to throttle him if he betrayed the trust placed in...
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    George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as...
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  • to the BBC, Jackson was tempted away from the corporation to succeed Michael Grade as the Chief Executive of Channel 4. He took up the post at the end...
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  • by Michael Grade, then an agent, who signed him. Following several successful appearances in ATV variety shows, Grade's uncle, impresario Lew Grade, gave...
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  • Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? is an American quiz game show. It originally aired on Fox where it was hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. It is produced by Mark...
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    Chairman had begun, and that he would not be putting his name forward. Michael Grade was appointed on 2 April 2004 and took up his post on 17 May; Ryder...
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    advertisements for the first time in early 2007. In 2007, ITV Chairman Michael Grade described the site as "the sweet spot" of the internet and stated that...
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  • Baron Goodman Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner Lew Grade, Baron Grade Michael Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth (Jewish father) Susan Greenfield, Baroness...
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  • relative grading, marking on a curve (BrE) or grading on a curve (AmE, CanE) (also referred to as curved grading, bell curving, or using grading curves)...
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  • Ryder, and was Acting Chairman in 2006 following the resignation of Michael Grade as BBC Chairman on 28 November 2006, Salz became Acting Chairman, and...
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  • His brothers, Lew Grade and Leslie Grade, also entered show business and formed the Grade Organisation. Their sister, Rita Grade, later wrote a book...
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  • Pay grades are used by the eight structurally organized uniformed services of the United States (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast...
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