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Brexit Comment on Conservative Home
by Ed Hall on 08/17/18You can see my thoughts on the current Brexit chaos here.
Ed Hall
Sailor
A passionate and experienced offshore yacht racer, Ed completed his 6th Fastnet Race in 2017.
The Night Owl team was 12th to the Rock in the 2015 race, 10th in IRC2 in the 2011 Fastnet, and overall winner of the JOG Offshore Series in 2009.
Both yachts Night Owl 1 and 2 have a great history, winning many races during the last few seasons, including Line Honours in the St. Peter Port race to Guernsey, Royal Thames Trophy in the St Malo Race, and the 2017 Warsash Spring Series.
Ed is also an active RNLI crew member on the Thames Lifeboats and races other yachts and sails for pleasure too.
Business
Journalist and
Activist
Ed has been leading digital television and retail businesses since 1998. He has created multiple TV channels in news, film, sports and entertainment. He also built and sold a group of TV shopping channels and sat on the board of a wide range of television and retail companies.
He has led on complex business projects in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He created the UK's first financial services televison channel, Simply Money, and also created the first non-Sky red button interactive service. He is often credited with creating the market in EPG positions on the Sky platform.
He has served on the board of professional industry bodies in Asia, Europe, and Australia and currently serves as Chairman of a Nigerian teleshopping company.
In 2011 he created Comux, a new company that beat the BBC to win the contract to build the national broadcasting infrastructure for the new UK-wide local television network, reaching 13 million homes.
In 2017 Ed took on a role as interim CEO restructuring a national terrestrial broadcaster in Greece.
To discuss new opportunities or for advice you can always get in touch with Ed through his office at Expert Media Partners.
Ed founded and led the campaign to lift the ban on lesbians and gay men serving in the British Armed Forces, later persuading Stonewall to support it. His book, We Can't Even March Straight (Vintage), was published in 1995. He received several awards for this successful human rights campaign which succeeded at the European Court of Human Rights in 1999.
Ed wrote and presented a range of programmes for BBC Radio 5 Live in the series Ed Hall Investigates winning a Sony Radio Award for News and Current Affairs in 1998. The BBC News website carries details of his expose of a secret world trade in genetically-modified pigs click here.
Other radio programmes written and presented by Ed Hall include The First 100 Days (of the Blair Government) for BBC Radio, and Encyclopaedia Historica for the BBC World Service.
In 1991 and 1992 Ed produced programmes for Channel 4 Dispatches and Thames Television on drug smuggling at Heathrow Airport and British mercenaries fighting in the former Yugoslavia.
As a writer Ed's work has appeared in a very diverse range of publications including the Independent, The Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Evening Standard, and not forgetting Independent Grocer. He is a regular commentator on broadcasting, business and technology.
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