Noel Curran Biography
Noel Curran is an Irish CEO, Chairperson, and former radio and television producer and journalist who has served as the Director-General of the European Broadcasting Union.
How old is Noel Curran? – Age
He is 57 years old as of 13 November 2022. He was born in 1965 in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan.
Noel Curran Family – Education
Richard Curran, his younger brother, is the deputy editor of the Sunday Business Post and the host of the TV show Dragons Den. Curran went to both elementary and secondary school. He majored in Communications at Dublin City University, where he specialized in Irish and International Broadcasting Policy, and where he wrote his final year thesis on the future of Public Service Broadcasting. While studying for his master’s degree, he also wrote about European broadcasting policy.
Noel Curran Wife
Curran is married to Eimear Quinn, the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest winner. Joelene was born in October 2009, and Marlene was born in April 2012. They spend time in both Ireland and Switzerland.
Noel Curran Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Noel Curran Current Affairs
He began his career as a senior financial journalist at Current Affairs before moving on to become a television producer. He returned to RTÉ as Editor of Current Affairs, where he was instrumental in the launch of the Prime Time Investigates documentary series. He was the editor of Mary Raftery’s award-winning documentaries Cardinal Secrets and Broken Trust. Following Mary Raftery’s death in January 2012, he spoke on Radio 1’s ‘Drivetime’ show about her contribution to journalism.
What is the meaning of EBU in the Eurovision Song Contest?
He represented public service media concerns on a global scale. The EBU offers its members a worldwide news service, international sports rights, live classical and jazz concerts, a technology and innovation service, a media research section, and a variety of television and radio material. The EBU also has a commercial arm, Eurovision Services, which distributes and produces huge sporting events around the world. Curran is the Chairperson of Eurovision Services. He is the first Irishman to hold the position of Director General of the EBU.
Noel Curran Career
He joined Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) as a business and analytical columnist in 1992, after a period working for Business and Money magazine. While working at Business and Money Curran was engaged with a few noticeable examinations. He became representative manager of Business and Money two years in the wake of joining as a correspondent, prior to leaving for RTÉ.
He then, at that point, became leader maker of live amusement series and creations, delivering a few live TV programs at the Point Theater, prior to being delegated as chief maker of the Eurovision Tune Challenge 1997, held in Dublin, introduced by Ronan Keating and Carrie Crowley. He was an individual from the EBU Eurovision bunch.
Curran left RTÉ in 2000 to turn into a head of a confidential free creation organization. As an autonomous, he won an IFTA grant as leader maker of the insightful narrative Ill will’.
In 2003, he was named overseeing overseer of television, at 37 the most youthful individual to stand firm on the situation, as per the Irish Free and Irish Times. He drove a strategy of expanded interest in Irish television creation during his residency, as RTÉ’s business pay developed to its most elevated noteworthy level. As per the Sunday Business Post Curran’s residency denoted the initial time publication and business divisions in television were coordinated under one overseeing chief.
In Walk 2010, Curran passed on RTÉ to seek after a consultancy and other personal financial matters prior to being evaluated and afterward selected DG by the RTÉ board compelling from 1 February 2011.
In 2017 he was selected Chief General of the EBU. He got back to Dublin City College in April 2016, where he reprimanded Irish telecom strategy and cautioned that RTÉ and public media confronted a troublesome monetary future without changes in approach and subsidizing.