Allan MacDonald

Chief Executive

Allan MacDonald is Chief Executive of mne TV and established the company in 1989. Mne TV celebrated its 20th birthday in 2009 after creating more than 100 long running and returning series over the years.

Allan has directed a number of programmes including Eilean Eile (Another Island) series, the Cairdean (Relatives Across The Sea) series, An Traigh Mhòr (Barra Long Beach Airport), the international award winning Cabhsair Eirisgeidh (The Eriskay Causeway), and religious service outside broadcast.

Allan is a former Manager of BBC Radio in Stornoway and Inverness and spent four years as a Television Producer with BBC Scotland in Glasgow. He set up the first Gaelic Department within Grampian TV in 1992.

Allan has held a number of positions on other boards; he is a former member of the Board of Lews Castle College of Further Education in Stornoway and was Chairman of PACT in Scotland from 2001 to 2006. During the passage of the Communications Act 2004, he was a member of the Scotland Office Gaelic Broadcasting Working Group.

He is a founding Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary Scotland and currently a Board Member of Skillset National Board for Scotland.