NTL boss makes CEO at Ofcom

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 22 Jan 2003 at 11:20

Former NTL boss Stephen Carter has been appointed Chief Executive to the board of Ofcom.

Carter, who described the appointment as 'irresistible', will be responsible for putting together strategy and policies for the new joint Communications regulator that will replace five regulators: Oftel, The Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC), The Independent Television Commission (ITC), The Radiocommunications Agency and The Radio Authority.

Lord Currie, Chairman of Ofcom, said: 'I am very pleased that Stephen is to join us. He has exactly the right qualities to deliver these requirements as well as considerable experience of working in the advertising, broadcasting and telecommunications sectors.'

A statement from the DTI details Carter's past glories, first rising through the ranks to CEO at J Walter Thompson and then as MD at NTL, ending with a flourish which reads: 'He left NTL at the end of 2002 as the Group was poised to exit Chapter 11.'

Tessa Jowell MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, said: 'I am delighted that the Ofcom Board have been able to select a candidate with relevant commercial and management experience. I am sure Stephen Carter will be an asset to Ofcom.'