- [1988-1991] Managing director of BBC Television.
- Controller of BBC One (1967 - 1973).
- He came up with the idea of BBC Sports Personality Of The Year, which was first awarded to runner Sir Chris Chataway in 1954.
- Paul Fox joined the BBC in the 1950s as a newsreel scriptwriter before going on to edit round-up show Sportsview and news and investigation programme Panorama.
- He was also a former chairman of breakfast franchise consortium Daybreak TV and was a board member of Thames Television.
- All the Moon landings of Project Apollo occurred during his tenure, and Fox allocated generous time on his network for coverage.
- He was educated in Bournemouth and served in the Parachute Regiment in the 1940s.
- He was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from Bradford University in 1991.
- Fox was a broadcasting giant, who was instrumental in creating what is now referred to as the 'golden era' of television, has left a significant mark on UK television.
- He received the Royal Television Society Gold Medal for Outstanding Services to television in 1992.
- He was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) by Leeds University in 1984.
- He moved into television with the Beeb in the 1950s, firstly with the news department writing scripts for the Newsreel slots.
- Ward Thomas brought in Fox as Head of Programmes of Yorkshire Television (YTV) in 1973, and later became managing director of Yorkshire Television between 1977 and 1988. During this period he was quite vocal in his disapproval of the ultimately unsuccessful poaching in 1985 of Dallas from the BBC by fellow ITV contractor Thames Television. This permanently soured his relationship with Thames executive Bryan Cowgill, who had been a former colleague at the BBC.
- He returned to the BBC as managing director of network television and retired in 1991, the year in which he was knighted for services to the TV industry.
- He also commissioned The Two Ronnies, Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game and the Parkinson talk show in 1971.
- Whilst at YTV, Fox was prominent in representing the managerial view in the industrial dispute between members of the ACTT trade union and the ITV companies, which blacked out the network for three months in 1979.
- In 1967, he became the Controller of BBC1, a post he held for six years, one of the longest tenures of any BBC Channel Controller. His achievements in the role included the launch of the enduring Dad's Army and overseeing the transition of BBC1 into colour in 1969.
- Moved from BBC One to become managing director of Yorkshire TV, which became ITV Yorkshire, from 1973 to 1988.
- Sir Paul was also a founding editor of sports show Grandstand and a controller of BBC One.
- He became chairman of the Racecourse Association and the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) before leaving both roles in the 1990s.
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