Simon Murray, a preferred and revered determine within the worldwide TV enterprise, has died aged 64.
Murray’s profession spanned greater than three many years within the promoting, publishing, and TV industries. A plethora of pals and trade colleagues have paid their respects since Murray died, April 6.
A profession in media began at Zenith/Saatchi & Saatchi within the late Eighties, which noticed Murray engaged on Zenith’s influential promoting forecasts, which had been an trade benchmark for a few years. He subsequently took managerial roles within the analysis departments of Kagan World Media after which Baskerville Communications, which revealed a number of newsletters centered on the worldwide TV enterprise. This was pre-internet and the TV stories and information publications had been arduous copy and subscription based mostly.
When UK-listed Informa purchased Baskerville, Murray moved into senior roles within the TV publications and analysis division. In addition to managing giant groups, he remained near the worldwide enterprise, producing intelligence for purchasers as Principal Analyst.
Informa revealed quite a few stories in addition to the TV Worldwide, Movie Finance, New Media Markets and Tv Enterprise Worldwide information publications.
Publish-Informa, Murray launched his personal enterprise, Digital TV Analysis, capitalizing upon his repute for first-class trade perception and evaluation. He labored with purchasers from all sectors of the media, producing an enormous library of market stories and knowledge.
Murray’s spouse, Kathy, let individuals know the information in a transferring Fb publish. Reacting to his sudden passing, pals and colleagues expressed shock and disappointment and paid tribute to an trade determine who had a repute as being good and insightful, with a rare information of the worldwide TV enterprise, but additionally who, at a private degree, was very variety and nice firm. A number of individuals paying their respects had labored for Murray and stated what a constructive affect he’d had on their careers.
Murray was admitted to Northwick Park Hospital in London final week. He had been anticipated to make a full restoration, however died of a coronary heart assault.
He’s survived by spouse, Kathy, two sons, Sean aged 32, Conor aged 29, and a daughter, Maeve, aged 27.