Background
FOX, Paul was born on October 27, 1925.
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FOX, Paul was born on October 27, 1925.
Fox was educated in Bournemouth and served in the Parachute Regiment, 1943-1946.
Fox began his career at the Corporation in the 1950s, writing scripts for the Television Newsreel programme before going on to create and edit the popular sports programme Sportsview. By the early 1960s he had been promoted to Head of Public Affairs at British Broadcasting Corporation Television and in this role was heavily involved in the news coverage of the assassination of United States. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the subsequent reaction to the events in the United Kingdom. In 1967 he became the Controller of BBC1 a post he held for six years, one of the longest tenures of any British Broadcasting Corporation Channel Controller.
He also commissioned The Two Ronnies, Bruce Forsyth"s Generation Game and the Parkinson talk show in 1971.
All the Moon landings of Project Apollo occurred during his tenure, and Fox allocated generous time on his network for coverage. Ward Thomas brought in Fox as Head of Programmes of Yorkshire Television (YTV) in 1973, during which he was quite vocal in his disapproval of the ultimately unsuccessful poaching in 1985 of Dallas from the British Broadcasting Corporation by fellow Independent Television contractor Thames Television.
He was Chairman of ITN from 1986 to 1988 and later Managing Director of British Broadcasting Corporation Network Television (1988-1991).
Whilst at YTV he was prominent in representing the managerial view in the industrial dispute between members of the ACTT trade union and the Independent Television companies, which blacked out the network for three months in 1979.
Married Betty R. Nathan in 1948.