Oh Susanna

What do we know about Susanna Dinnage, 51, the woman from Discovery who has beaten Tim Davie and others to the top job at the Premier League ?

She's been a Fulham season ticket holder for the past seven years, she likes tennis, she has a personal trainer, she's a fan of Duran Duran. She seems to have been interested in a move from Discovery, where she's currently Global Head of Animal Planet, for a while - she was rumoured to have been runner-up to Alex Mahon when she took over at Channel 4.  Perhaps there was some anxiety about Discovery's European plans, post-Brexit and post-the-merger with Scripps....

She's had the odd spat with Sky during her time at Discovery, threatening to pull her channels in the UK because of carriage charges. In 2015 at an RTS think-in, she bemoaned the “slightly exaggerated importance of live sport” in the broadcasting ecology. However she was also involved in the deal with the All England Club and the BBC to show Wimbledon on Eurosport and Eurosport’s successful bid for the European rights for the Olympics between 2018 and 2024.





She started in tv with MTV in Europe in 1992, eventually specialising in audience research.  She joined Channel 5 ahead of its launch in 1997, as head of consumer research and planning. She joined Discovery in 2009.