| Press Release 8 October 2003
Immediate 11/03
Britain’s New Broadcasting
Order: How Will it Work?
Find Out On:
Thursday, 27 November,
11.000-4.30pm, Hamilton House, London WC1
The new Office of Communications, Ofcom,
will introduce an entirely new regulatory regime for broadcasting and telecommunications
when it assumes responsibility for the work of five existing bodies in
the new year. Ofcom’s principal point of contact with listeners and viewers
on programmes will be with its Content Board. How will the members of the
Content Board interpret their duties and the new regulations?
Kip Meek Ofcom,s Senior Partner, Content
and Competition and a member of the Content Board, will explain the new
approach in the keynote speech at VLV’s 20th annual autumn conference in
London on 27 November, and take questions from the floor.
Time will be reserved during the afternoon
for radio and the discussion of topical issues.
Tickets: £80 including lunch. £40
concessions, including lunch.
To book a place - please
click here.
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Broadcasting and
Democracy
Wednesday, 3 December,
0930 – 4.30pm. Playfair Library,
University of Edinburgh
The most boring words in the English language
are said to be: ‘There now follows a party political broadcast’. Party
political and election broadcasts allow political parties to talk directly
to potential voters in an unmediated way and form a precious part of Britain’s
democratic heritage. Yet this tradition is now in danger of being lost
as politicians and broadcasters question their worth. But what about the
voters? Are they prepared to change to a system like that in the USA, where
paid-for advertising is the norm?
VLV’s 12th annual conference in Scotland,
this year in association with the Electoral Commission and Edinburgh and
Napier Universities, will consider these issues and how the matter should
be approached in the light of devolution. Among the speakers will be:
Glynn Mathias, Electoral Commissioener,
Scotland
Blair Jenkins, Head of News, BBC Scotland
Alisdair Macleod, Scottish Parliamentary
Unit, BBC Scotland
Professor Ivor Gaber, Goldsmiths College,
University of London
Professor Bob Franklin, Sheffield University
Tickets: £25, including lunch. Students
and concessions, excluding lunch: £5.
Further information from: Linda Forbes
or Jocelyn Hay on 01474 - 352835 or e-mail : vlv@btinterent.com Or from
Robert Beveridge at: r.beveridge@napier.ac.uk
To book a place - please
click here.
For full details of VLV contact:
Telephone: 01474 352835.
Fax: 01474 351112.
E-mail: vlv@btinternet.com
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