Job: presenter, BBC Radio 2 Age: 46 Industry: broadcasting New entry The king is dead – long live the king?
Job: presenter, producer Age: 48 Industry: broadcasting New entry Graham Norton is the new Jonathan Ross – but without the baggage.
Job: actor, writer, presenter Age: 34 Industry: broadcasting New entry David Mitchell is the go-to funnyman of the moment.
Job: controller, Radio 2, 6 Music, Asian Network Age: 51 Industry: broadcasting New entry Under Bob Shennan the country's biggest radio station got bigger.
Job: controller of fiction, BBC Age: 45 Industry: broadcasting Annual programming budget: £440m Staff: 65 New entry Jane Tranter is the second most important person at the BBC.
Job: controller, drama commissioning, BBC Age: 34 Industry: broadcasting Annual budget: £250m Salary: £160,000 (total remuneration) Staff: 20 2010 ranking: 78 Making drama is tricky.
She cited research published earlier this year by Lily Canter of Sheffield Hallam university in which she interviewed editors across the media industry, broadcasting as well as newspapers.
Job: controller, BBC1 Age: 44 Industry: broadcasting New entry Charlotte Moore is in charge of the country's most popular TV channel with a £1bn budget to match.
Job: writers, actors Age: 30, 41 Industry: broadcasting New entry James Corden and Ruth Jones emerged as two of the brightest new comedy talents of the year.
In the 60 years between 1929, when radio became the dominant conveyor of the prevailing mass culture in the United States, and 1989, when cable television became a truly mature industry, broadcasting provided something that was unique in human history.
Job: director of BBC News Age: 49 Industry: broadcasting Annual programming budget: £395m Staff: 3,000 2004 ranking: 84 Helen Boaden is the first female director of BBC News.
