Meet MARKETING EDGE panelist @Inaugural Quarterly Virtual Summit- Andrew Hanlon, Media Tsar
Andrew Hanlon is a media Tsar with over 30 years’ experience in the broadcast industry. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TVC Communications, and is responsible for defining and delivering the business strategy and providing overall leadership for the operation of TVC, TVC News and Max FM (Lagos & Abuja).
Prior to joining TVC Communications, Andrew had worked as Director of News and Information Programming at Ireland’s leading independent national television station, TV3 in Dublin, where he was responsible for the channel’s news and daily studio programming for 18 years. As a founding director of the company in 1998, Andrew established the station’s award winning national news service along with a host of other market leading programmes.
Andrew’s career in news programming began in 1986 with RTE, Ireland’s state owned national television and radio broadcaster, where he worked as a reporter and newscaster for three years before taking the position of Head of News at leading Dublin radio station 98FM, part of the international Communicorp group of radio stations between 1989 and 1997.
He then took up the role of founding Managing Director of Independent Network News (INN), a syndicated national radio news service for the network of independent radio stations in Ireland.
Since his appointment as CEO at TVC, the foremost indigenous media conglomerate has undergone phenomenal growth in terms of infrastructure and programming. In fact, he has impacted and imparted the media group with his Midas Touch having achieved a 360 degree turn-around of the award winning station. Andrew’s dynamic leadership and management acumen has greatly assisted TVC Communications group in an unprecedented transformation and radical revolution in people-centric broadcast journalism in Nigeria.
Under Hanlon’s watch, the hitherto news-focused TVC was rebranded to be a one-stop shop for entertainment and news, with its flagship news channel TVC News refocused in line with its pay-off line to be the “First with Breaking News” in the country.
For a visionary with a knack for excellence, Hanlon’s astuteness in re-organizing the media conglomerate has earned it several awards including the prestigious National Media Merit Award ‘TV Station of The Year’ and MARKETING EDGE TV STATION OF THE YEAR AWARD amongst several awards and laurels.
Hanlon is a gregarious personality who has made several friends in Nigeria, having relocated from his country of birth, Republic of Ireland, in 2018. He is well loved and admired amongst corporate leaders and the industry where he is a role model to younger professionals.
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