Brian Doherty Email & Phone Number

1 Stephen Street, London, W1T 1AL

The Rights Team is a central resource providing rights support and expertise to the FM Group globally as well as advising independent producers. We support and promote the widest possible exploitation of FM's programme assets through efficient and effective management of the company's rights and through the upkeep of DPS (the corporate rights database)..

33 Foley Street, London, W1W 7TL

• Year on year the US Consumer Products team hit their revenue targets. From London I managed all the stakeholders involved: forged closer ties with Content & Production and Channels to manage programme investment.
• Developing new brand partnerships: Soho Theatre, AudioGo, Amused Moose, Foxtel, Playstation, Xbox.
• Successful extensive project to exploit deep catalogue digitally, through IPTV and 3rd party licensing with major partners such as Hulu, Criterion and Acorn.
• Increased TV sales by 150%, including first-time sales to US broadcasters.
• Overhaul of compliance procedures to enable development of streaming revenue and allow ancillary exploitation. Show less

London

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGASPIRE is an accelerated leadership development programme offered annually to only 12 individuals following a rigorous selection process conducted across BBC Worldwide. 12 months are spent developing a project that benefits the business, mentored by a member of the BBC Worldwide Board of Directors. As part of the 2012 cohort, I was.

London, United Kingdom

• Reporting into the International Director I managed the relationship with our offices in Sydney, Tokyo & Hong Kong. This meant overseeing all aspects of Home Entertainment licensing in the territories from investment.
• ASPAC revenue increased from £5m in 2006 to over £14m in 2010.
• Negotiation of several successful cover-mount campaigns with News Ltd In Australia generating £2m revenue over 2 years with continuing successive revenue results.
• Winner of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2009 for International Trade. Show less

London, United Kingdom

• I facilitated all aspects of DVD publishing in Australia and the Far East. This entailed ensuring timely delivery of cleared masters in a format suitable to the relevant territory, layered artwork, DVD menus, publicity.
• Successful multi-platform launch of Top Gear in Japan.
• New Direct… Show more I facilitated all aspects of DVD publishing in Australia and the Far East. This entailed ensuring timely delivery of cleared masters in a format suitable to the relevant territory, layered.
• New Direct Marketing deals in ASIA with UCAN supplying unused back catalogue which has returned overages of £7m 2007-2012. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Rights acquisitions and artist contracts for Factual, Arts & Classical Music programming for radio & television. Negotiating fees and rights with talent and agents for actors, musicians, presenters and interviewees based in UK and overseas. Key Achievement: Key stage of BBC Radio 7 (now BBC Radio 4 Extra) negotiations.

London, United Kingdom

Acquiring and negotiating rights in order to facilitate the sale of BBC programming. This involved clearing rights for exploitation on Television, Audio, Video and DVD platforms. I was also required to research and clear new content for added value on DVD releases, as well as negotiation and renewal of contributor contracts.Key Achievement: Initiated the.

London, United Kingdom

Based in the Television Rights department at LWT, part of the Granada Media Group my responsibilities included sourcing programme information from a wide range of sources, analysing rights and resolving rights and copyright issues and communicating information to international sales teams. Disseminating music copyright information was my area of.

London, United Kingdom

Managing team of on-site collators of all music played live and broadcast and liaising with artistes and tour managers to ensure an accurate catalogue of all copyrighted material used.Key Achievement: Development of a self reporting system for all the major festivals eg Glastonbury, Reading and Cheltenham Music Festival.

Cultural Studies, English Literature Major, Political Theory, History, Philosophy, Literary Theory, Media Theory, Film/Video Studies., 2:1 (Hons)

Activities and Societies: Founder member of the Irish Society, DJ at campus radio staion, singer in a few gigging bands, film-maker.

3 A-Levels: English Literature, Geography, Sociology