| Press Release 13 September 2001
Immediate 17/01
Michael Stevenson and Paul Ashton to
speak at Launch of
Voice of the Listener & Viewer
Forum for Educational Broadcasting
Michael Stevenson, Director, BBC Factual
& Learning and Paul Ashton, Commissioning Editor, Schools Special Projects
and Channel 4 Learning will speak with a Head Teacher, at the launch
of VLV’s new Forum for Educational Broadcasting.
Alan Tuckett, Director of the National
Institute for Adult & Continuing Education will chair.
The inaugural meeting will be at the Institute
of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1 on Wednesday, 26th September,
at 6.00 pm. Light refreshments will be served from 5.30pm.
The VLV Education Forum will bring
together broadcasters, programme makers, teachers, academics, students
and individual users to consider current and future possibilities for educational
broadcasting and related services.
The BBC and Channel 4 plan to use 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 these new services but also to ensure that
valuable programmes and resources continue to be broadcast free-to-view
on mainstream channels.
Competition from new commercial satellite
and cable broadcasters is increasing but none of the new services bears
similar public service obligations in regard to their programme provision
as the BBC and Channel 4.
VLV is therefore concerned, together with
many in the teaching profession, that in the present climate of rapid technological
change and intense commercial pressure, educational programmes may be displaced
from mainstream free-to-view channels.
These concerns range from the pace of change
and the transfer of programmes online, to the dispersal of expertise from
specialist educational departments, suggestions of closer government funding
and more commercial partnerships.
VLV is creating the Forum for Educational
Broadcasting and modelling it on VLV’s Forum for Children's Broadcasting
which was formed in 1994 and which will hold its seventh annual conference:
‘Children
and Television: Predators at the Gate’ in London on 1st November.
Commenting VLV chair Jocelyn Hay said: ‘ The
new forms of educational programming are exciting but it is important that
education remains at the heart of the public service broadcast remit,
and for it to continue to be universally available to all licence-payers
free-to-air.’
For tickets (£10 each, concessions £7.50,
including light refreshments) contact: Linda Forbes.
For further information about the launch
of the Forum and about Membership of the Forum contact:
Jocelyn Hay: Telephone: 01474-352835.
Fax: 01474-351112.
E-mail: vlv@btinternet.com
Website: www.vlv.org.uk
For full details of VLV contact:
Voice Of The Listener & Viewer
101 King's Drive, Gravesend
Kent
DA12 5BQ
Telephone: 01474 352835.
Fax: 01474 351112.
E-mail: vlv@btinternet.com
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