Jay Hunt (BBC)

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Jay Hunt is the present Controller of BBC One.

Hunt joined the BBC in 1989 as a researcher, working on BBC Breakfast News. She went on to work on Newsnight before being appointed editor of Panorama in 1998, subsequently being put in charge of the BBC One One O'Clock News and eventually the Six O'Clock News.

Hunt became BBC Birmingham's Executive Producer for Daytime in 2002, being promoted to Senior Commissioning Executive for Daytime in 2003 and then Controller of BBC Daytime and Early Peak with responsibility for programming across both BBC One and BBC Two between 9am and 7pm.

Hunt left the BBC briefly in 2007 to take up the role of Controller of Programmes for Five, but on 3 December 2007 it was announced that she would be returning to the BBC to take up the vacant post of Controller of BBC One in 2008.