Appointment made to new broadcasting job

Press, 2 January 1985, Page 16

Appointment made to new broadcasting job

Mr Bill Foster has been appointed by the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand to the newly created post of general manager of resource services.

The post is one of the most senior in the corporation, on a par with the directors-general of Radio New Zealand and Television New Zealand.

The corporation’s public affairs manager,. Mr John Shrapnell, said Mr Foster would manage all the be-hind-the-scenes functions necessary to put television and radio on air.

“The job covers all the various services that enable the more obvious services of the corporation to function,” he said. “It is also an area from which new services could come.”

The job was created after a top-level reorganisation of the corporation. Mr Foster will be a member of a new executive management

team which also includes the directors-general of Radio New Zealand and Television New Zealand, Miss Beverley Wakem and Mr Allan Martin, and is headed by the corporation’s chief executive, Mr lan Cross. Mr Foster, who is 38, was

born in Invercargill and educated in Palmerston North. After graduating from the University of Canterbury with batchelor of engineering and master of commerce degrees, he joined the Post Office as an engineer.

He became principal corporate planner at Post Office headquarters in Wellington, where he developed management information systems and the use of computers.

In February, 1983, he was seconded to the Broadcasting Corporation as director of corporate planning. He is vice-president of the New Zealand Business Planning society and a registered engineer.

Mr Foster is married to a teacher, and is a keen sportsman.