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David Leckie, Leading Australian Media Executive, Dead at 70

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDavid Leckie, one of the most senior executives in Australian television, is dead. He died at home at Mulberry Farm on Tuesday after a prolonged illness.Leckie was CEO of Nine Network from 1990 to 2001.

In 2003, he joined Seven Network and led it to ratings success.Leckie held several senior roles with the Seven group, including CEO of Seven Network, MD and CEO of Seven Media Group and Seven West Media, and was a board director of Seven Network Limited, Seven West Media and Seven Group Holdings.“Inspiring, engaging, loud, passionate and famously difficult at times, he was an extraordinary sales person and an intuitive TV programmer.

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