Michael Richard Jackson (born 11 February 1958) is a British television producer and executive.
He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC1 and BBC2, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media.
He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001.