Press Release
6 August 2003
Immediate
9/03
VLV’s Autumn 2003 Conference
Programme Looks Ahead to New Era
Mon, 20 October, 6pm : Adult Media
Literacy, National Liberal Club, London SW1.
Tickets: £20, concessions £10,
including light refreshments from 5.30pm.
The new regulator, Ofcom, will have responsibility
for media literacy. This seminar, by the VLV Forum for Educational Broadcasting,
will bring together academics, researchers, regulators and other interested
parties to consider the tools and information that viewers will require
if they are to be able to make full use of the services that will be available
to them in the multi-channel, lightly-regulated environment of the future.
Wednesday, 5 November: Children’s Television
& Radio - a Brave New World ?
10.00am - 5pm, St Bride’s Institute,
Fleet Lane, London EC4.
Tickets: £85 including lunch, and
morning and afternoon refreshments. Concessions: £45.
The new Communications Act changes the
public service remit for Britain’s terrestrial broadcasters at the same
time as it lifts the previous ban on foreign ownership of British radio
and television companies. Multinationals like the Disney Corporation,
Viacom, and Clear Channel are reported to be interested in buying British
media interests.
What impact could a change of ownership
have on children’s radio and television? How will the Content Board
of the new regulator, Ofcom, ensure that British children continue to enjoy
programmes that have been made in the UK and which put their interests
above all others?
Confirmed speakers include:
Margaret Hodge MP, UK Minister
for Children
Dorothy Prior, Controller BBC Children’s
Programmes
Steven Andrew, Controller, ITV
Children’s Programmes
Andrea Millwood-Hargrave, Director
of ITC and Broadcasting Standards Commission Research
Anna Home, Chief Executive, Children’s
Film & Television Foundation
Thursday, 27 November: Britain’s New
Broadcasting Order: how will it work?
11am - 4.45pm. Hamilton House, Mabledon
Place, off Euston Road, London WC1.
Tickets: £85 including lunch and
refreshments, Concessions £45.
Ofcom, the new Office of Communications,
will assume responsibility for regulating radio, television, telecommunications
and the allocation of radio frequency spectrum on 15 December.
VLV has invited Ofcom’s Chief Executive, Stephen Carter, to give
the keynote speech at VLV’s 20th annual autumn conference.
A second session will be devoted to the Place of Radio.
Wednesday, 3 December: Broadcasting
and Democracy, 10.00am - 4. 30pm
The Playfair Library, Edinburgh University,
Edinburgh. Details on request.
VLV will hold other events linked to the
political scene, the setting up of Ofcom, digital switch-over and other
current issues on an ad hoc basis during the autumn and winter.
For further information contact Linda
Forbes on 01474 352835 or refer to our website: www.vlv.org.uk
For full details of VLV contact:
Telephone: 01474 352835.
Fax: 01474 351112.
E-mail: vlv@btinternet.com
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