Ofcom has appointed four non-executive directors including former BBC2 controller Roly Keating to the board of Channel 4.
The appointments come a week after it emerged that the Department of Culture, Media and Sport had held up the process with a “regrettable” delay, according to Ofcom chairman Dame Patricia Hodgson.
The appointments were approved by culture secretary Karen Bradley after the names were submitted by the regulator in July and September.
Former BBC2 and BBC4 controller Keating, who was also formerly head of programming at UKTV and is currently chief executive of the British Library, will be joined by Simon Bax, chairman of local newspaper publisher Archant, who previously worked at Pixar and Fox.
The other new non-execs are Direct Line Insurance chief executive Paul Geddes and consultant Lord Christopher Holmes, a former non-exec at UK Sport. The latter chaired the group of advisors to C4 on its Year of Disability initiative in 2016.
The directors replace Richard Rivers, Monica Burch and Alicja Lesniak after the expiration of their six-year terms in September, and former Waitrose managing director Mark Price, who was appointed UK trade and investment minister earlier this year.
It is believed that recruitment firm Egon Zehnder consulted on the recruitment process.
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