VLV'S PREVIOUS CONFERENCES IN 2011

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                                                    Public Service Broadcasting under Siege?

                                                         VLV's 28th Annual Autumn Conference

                                                Wednesday, 30th November 2011 10.30am - 3.30pm

                                     at The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1

Digital Radio Update

Speaker:

Roger Darlington, Chair, Digital Consumer Expert Group

Chair:

John Clark, Trustee, The Voice of the Listener Trust

Delivering Quality First

Speaker:

Caroline Thomson, Chief Operating Officer, BBC

Chair:

Gillian Reynolds, Radio Critic, The Daily Telegraph

Presentation of VLV's 2011 Student Essay Competition

Jon Snow presented the prizes to the winner and runner-up of the post-graduate winners for VLV's 2011 Student Essay Competition.

Winner: Anna Chapman from London College of Communications (prize accepted by Martin Shaw, Anna's tutor).

Runner-up: Amie Tsang from City University, London.

The winner received £400 from Channel 4 and both winner and runner-up received 4 weeks work experience from Films of Record.

       Left to Right: Lewis Rudd (organiser), Martin Shaw, Amie Tsang and Jon Snow

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The Importance of free-to-air Television

Speaker:

Ilse Howling, Managing Director, Freeview

Chair:

Professor Bob Usherwood, Board Director, Voice of the Listener & Viewer

 

After the Phone Hackers

Speaker:

Rt Hon Lord Fowler, former Chair, House of Lords Select Committee on Communications (right of picture)

Chair:

Stewart Purvis, Professor of Television Journalism, City University London (left of picture)

 

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CONFERENCE WAS FOLLOWED BY VLV LTD'S 9th AGM at 4pm.

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                                        The value of localism - what's the case for local media?

A Voice of the Listener & Viewer Seminar supported by Ofcom and The Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster

                                                 Wednesday, 23rd November 2011 4pm - 6pm

                                                     University of Ulster, Belfast Campus, Belfast

Speakers included:

Dave Hyndman, Community Media Director of local TV station, NvTv

Mike Nesbitt, NI Assembly Member for Strangford and former UTV journalist

Jonathan Rose, Director, Ofcom NI

Maggie Swarbrick, Director, MA in Journalism, University of Ulster and BBC broadcast journalist

Professor Pat Loughrey, Warden of Goldsmith College, University of London, Visiting Professor at the School of Media, Film and Journalism, University of Ulster and former Director of Nations and Regions, BBC

                                                                                                                                        LtoR: Dave Hyndman, John Rosborough, Jonathan                                                                                                                                                  Rose,Maggie Swarbrick & Mike Nesbitt

Chair:

John Rosborough, award-winning radio producer and former radio executive, and member, Voice of the Listener & Viewer

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                                     Children's Programmes - Out of Date in the Digital Age?

                                          Wednesday, 2nd November 2011 6.30pm -8.30pm

                                         National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1

 

Baroness (Floella) Benjamin, independent producer, writer and long time campaigner

 

 

 

                                                                                                  Speakers Left to Right:

Reg Bailey, Chief Executive, Mother's Union

Jane Rumble, Head of Market Research, Ofcom

Máire Messenger Davies, Professor of Media Studies, School of Media, Film and Journalism, University of Ulster and VLV Board Director

Anne Brogan, Director, Kindle Entertainment

Joe Godwin, BBC Director of Children's

Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology and Head, Department of Media and Communications, LSE

 

press release                                               Ofcom's slides

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                                  Public Service Broadcasting - What do we really, really want?

                                                          Saturday, 22nd October 2011 2pm - 4pm

                                                      Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester

Public Meeting - all welcome - admission FREE - JUST TURN UP

Speakers:

Sophie Jones, Head of Corporate Relations, Channel 4

Mark Covell, Head of External Affairs, BBC North

Cat Lewis, MD and Executive producer, Nine Lives Media

Professor Sylvia Harvey, Visiting Professor, University of Leeds and Trustee, The Voice of the Listener Trust

Chair:

Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester

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                                                     UK Programme Production - Securing its Future

                                                            Monday, 17th October 2011 6pm - 8.30pm

                                              The National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1

                                                              Speakers:

David Liddiment, BBC Trustee and Creative Director, All3Media

Dan Brooke, Director of Marketing and Communications, Channel 4

Adam Minns, Executive Director, COBA (The Commercial  Broadcasters       Association)

Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, University of Westminster

Chair:

Steve Hewlett, TV Journalist and consultant, and presenter of BBC                                       Radio 4's Media Show

  

  LtoR: Steven Barnett, Adam Minns, Steve Hewlett,

               David Liddiment and Dan Brooke

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                                      Serving the Citizen: Broadcasting Accountability in an On-line Europe

                                    European Alliance of Listeners' & Viewers' Associations in association with

                                                                       Voice of the Listener & Viewer

                                                               Friday, 7th October 2011 9.30pm - 6pm

                                                           The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

See programme        

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                                                            Windows on the World: Keeping Them Open.

                                            The Prospects for public service broadcasting, libraries and arts.

                                                                    Saturday, 16th July 2011 at 2pm

                                   The Congreve Room, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UP.

Public Meeting - all welcome - admission FREE - JUST TURN UP .  Refreshments from 1.45pm.

Speakers:

Lauren Smith, Founding member of the national libraries advocacy group Voices for the Library and co-ordinator of the Save Doncaster Libraries campaign.

Garry Lyons has written extensively for theatre as well as for radio and television, with his BBC2 drama-documentary Britain's first suicide bombers attracting a Prix Europa nomination in 2007.

Sheena Wrigley, Joint Chief Executive, West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Sylvia Harvey, Visiting Professor in Broadcasting Policy, University of Leeds; Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics; Trustee, The Voice of the Listener Trust.

Chair:

Judith Stamper, Deputy Head, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds; BBC Journalist and former Presenter BBC Look North.

The event was also supported by the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds

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                                                            LISTEN HERE! The Future of Local Radio

                                                                  Saturday, 4th June 2pm - 3.30pm

                                            The Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1

The Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV) offered local people the opportunity to have their say on the future of local public service radio.  This is important at a time when there are threats to the coverage of local issues, community and specialist programming.

Admission was FREE.

Speakers were:

Michael Barton, the first manager of BBC Radio Sheffield and also a member of The Voice of the Listener Trust.

Tim Smith, Acting Head of BBC Yorkshire.

The event was chaired by Ian Soutar, Arts and Entertainment Editor of the Sheffield Telegraph

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An Evening with the Controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4Extra.  Gwyneth Williams spoke on how she sees the future of the BBC's flagship radio channel now? on  Wednesday, 18th May 2011 6.30pm - 8pm   (Registration 6pm) at The Royal College of Pathologists, 2 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AF. 

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                                            'Risking Quality in Times of Change -

                                     what future for Public Service Broadcasting?'

                                                        Tuesday, 12th April 2011 10.30am - 3.30pm at The

Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1

Helen Boaden, Director of BBC News gave a Keynote address and took questions at VLV's Spring Conference.   Speech

 

Stewart Purvis, Professor of Journalism, City University chaired the session.

  

Other speakers included:

David Liddiment, BBC Trustee who led the BBC Trust Review of Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 7.

David Elstein, Chair of the Broadcast Policy Group and Open

Democracy and former CEO of Channel 5 and Head of Programmes at BSkyB

Roger Graef, writer, broadcaster, film-maker and criminologist

Stephen Whittle, controller, former Broadcast Equality and Training Regulator and former Controller of BBC Editorial Policy

Also Justin Webb, presenter, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme presented the prizes of VLV's 2010 Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting at 1.45pm.  List of Winners - press release

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