Press Release 04 August 2001
Education, Children, Digital
& the Communications Bill
on VLV’s Autumn Agenda
Five events will be staged this
autumn by Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV) to raise and
inform public debate about important topical issues in broadcasting.
They include:
Wed. 26 September, London. Launch
of the VLV Forum on Educational Broadcasting,
6.00pm - 8.30pm. Institute of Education,
Bedford Way, London WC1. Tickets £10, Concessions £7.50.
The VLV Education Forum will bring
together broadcasters, programme makers, teachers, academics and
students to consider current and future possibilities for educational
broadcasting and related services.
The BBC and Channel 4 have ambitious
plans for using new media, including the Internet and interactive
television to develop new services for schools, further education
and life long learners.
VLV is eager to encourage the development
of new services but also to ensure that valuable programmes and
resources continue to be broadcast free-to-view.
Sat. 13 October. ‘Broadcasting
and Scottish Devolution’, Napier University Edinburgh 10.00-4.30pm.
VLV. Tickets: £15, concessions £10, excluding lunch.
VLV will join with the Royal Television
Society, Radio Academy and the International Institute of Communications
to hold its 11th annual conference in Scotland.
Invited speakers include: John McCormick,
controller, BBC Scotland; Richard Findlay, chairman, Scottish
Radio Holdings; Professor Jean Seaton, BBC historian; David Goldberg;
Glasgow University; Robert Beveridge, Napier University; Paul
Brown, chief executive, Commercial Radio Companies Association;
Jocelyn Hay, chairman, VLV.
Thurs. 1st November, ‘Children
and Television: Predators at the Gate’ Conference Centre, Euston
St, London NW1. 0930-4.30pm. Tickets: £80, concessions £18.50
including lunch.
The seventh annual conference of
the VLV Forum for Children’s Broadcasting will examine the provision
of television and radio programmes for children in the UK and
the impact that new media, including satellite, the Internet and
video games are having on audiences and producers.
Confirmed speakers include: Nigel
Pickard, BBC Controller of Children’s Television; Janie Grace,
ITV Controller of Children’s Television; Andrea Millward-Hargrave,
Director of Research, Broadcasting Standards Commission; Dr Maire
Messenger-Davies, University of Wales, Cardiff.
Wed. 28 November. ‘Broadcasting
& the New Communications Bill’. VLV’s 18th Autumn Conference,
followed by 18th AGM, Hamilton House, London WC1. 10.30am - 3.30pm.
Tickets £80, concessions £18.50 including lunch.
One session will be devoted to issues
arising from the Bill, followed by an open forum, another to a
panel questions on digital television and radio.
VLV has invited the Culture Secretary,
Tessa Jowell MP, to address a VLV Evening Westminster Seminar
on the Communications Bill after Parliament returns on 15 October.
Date to be confirmed
For tickets and further information
contact: Linda Forbes or Jocelyn Hay: 01474-352835
For full details of VLV contact:
Telephone: 01474 352835.
Fax: 01474 351112.
E-mail: vlv@btinternet.com
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