Roger Froome Laughton

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. Laughton attended the state boys'

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(KES). He studied at

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, gaining a degree in History in 1963, and a

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from the

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in Oxford the following year. He was a television producer for the BBC from 1965–90, working on programmes such as Michael Wood's ''

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''. On 27 October 1986 he launched the BBC Daytime service. In November 2006, he produced the ''Laughton Report'', which found that the local BBC television services were disruptive to local newspapers, but employed fewer journalists.Laughton Report
/ref> From 1991-96, he was the Chief Executive of Meridian Broadcasting (now ITV Meridian). He received the CBE in the

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for services to regional broadcasting. He became a Fellow of the

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in 1994. Laughton married Suzanne Taylor in 1967, and they have a daughter, Catherine.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Laughton, Roger 1942 births Academics of Bournemouth University Alumni of Merton College, Oxford BAFTA winners (people) BBC executives BBC television producers British television executives British television producers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Television Society ITV people Mass media in Hampshire People educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield People from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Living people Governors of the British Film Institute