Editing Jeremy Isaacs (section)

{{Short description|Scottish television producer and executive, and opera manager}}
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| honorific_prefix     = [[Sir]]
| birth_name    = Jeremy Israel Isaacs
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1932|9|28|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]]
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| alma_mater    = [[Merton College, Oxford]]
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| occupation    = Television executive
| years_active  = 1958–2000
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'''Sir Jeremy Israel Isaacs''' (born 28 September 1932) is a Scottish television producer and executive, and an opera manager. 

Following a career at [[Granada Television]], the [[BBC]] and [[Thames Television]], Isaacs was the founding chief executive of [[Channel 4]] in 1982, serving in the role until 1987. He won the [[BAFTA Fellowship]] in 1985, the [[British Film Institute Fellowship]] in 1986, and the [[International Emmy Directorate Award]] in 1987. He was also the General Director of the [[Royal Opera House]] from 1987 to 1996. A recipient of many [[British Academy Television Awards]] and [[International Emmy Awards]], Isaacs was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[1996 Birthday Honours]] "for services to Broadcasting and to the Arts."<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54427 |date=14 June 1996 |pages=2 }}</ref>