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David Leckie

July 2021

David Leckie’s family and friends gather at the Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens in North Ryde Sydney to farewell a titan of the TV industry.

‘Still the One’: TV titan David Leckie farewelled at intimate memorial

TV titan David Leckie was remembered by his family as a ‘bulldog, boisterous, obsessive, controversial, fearless, cheeky and a ruthless competitor’ and an ‘adoring, sensitive father and husband’.

  • Miranda Ward
David Leckie and Kerry Stokes at a Seven AGM.

David Leckie, the man who brought success to television

David Leckie, who died on Tuesday, was a television legend known for his bluster, winning ways, long lunches and his abrasive relationship with Kerry Packer.

  • Miranda Ward
Former Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment chief executive David Leckie has died aged 70.

TV legend David Leckie dead at 70

The former Seven West Media and Nine Entertainment chief executive has been remembered as the ‘last of the rock star CEOs’.

  • Miranda Ward

March 2020

Big picture view: Seven consultant David Leckie in front of his portrait at Macchiavelli Restaurant in 2014.

Warburton brings in Leckie to mentor key execs at Seven

The Seven CEO has turned to his first boss in television as a consultant for the free-to-air broadcaster.

  • Max Mason

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