Press Release
19 February 2004
Immediate
VLV’s Spring Conference Programme 2004
Looks to the Future of public service broadcasting
and the new technology
VLV’s 21st Spring conference programme
will focus on the future for public service broadcasting in the UK and
worldwide, starting with an evening meeting to consider BBC Charter Review
and Ofcom’s Review of Public Service Broadcasting, and including VLV’s
9th international conference.
Thursday, 4 March: 5.00pm - 7.30pm
at the Foreign Press Association,
10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1.
Tea / Coffee from 4.30pm.
This special evening meeting will include
presentations on and discussion of the DCMS consultation on BBC Charter
Review and Ofcom’s Review of Public Service Broadcasting across all terrestrial
television channels.
Both consultations have deadlines of 31
March for submissions by members of the public.
Tickets: £10 each, include
light refreshments from 4.30pm.
Mon & Tues 26 and 27 April: Broadcasting
& Civil Society in the Digital Age. VLV’s 9th International
conference 09.30 - 5.00pm.
The Royal Society, 6 - 9 Carlton House
Terrace, London SW1
Lord MacIntosh of Harringey, UK
Minister for Broadcasting will open VLV’s 9th International conference
on 26 May and welcome delegates on behalf of the UK Government. He
will speak at 09.30am.
During the two day event, key speakers
and delegates from the UK and overseas will consider the role, funding
and future for public service broadcasting and communications in an increasingly
competitive global media market.
Policy areas will include: the effect of
revisions to the European Directive on trans-frontier television; WTO policies
re audio-visual services; developments arising from the WSIS; and the impact
of increasingly concentrated global media ownership on indigenous cultures,
language and values and on access to plurality of sources of information,
ideas and indigenous sport.
Conference fee, including lunch and refreshments
each day: £411.25. Earlybird discount for payments by 20 February:
£353.50. Concessions on request.
Thursday, 29 April: Public Service Broadcasting:
safe in whose hands?
11.00 – 4.45pm at Hamilton House, Mabledon
Place, off Euston Road, London WC1. Coffee from 10.30am.
Keynote speakers: at 11.00am - Stephen
Carter, Chief Executive, Ofcom.
At 3pm – Mark Byford, Acting Director
General of the BBC.
1.45pm: Presentation of VLV’s 2003 Awards
for Excellence in Radio and Television
Tickets: £99.88, include lunch,
refreshments and the Awards presentation. Concessions on request.
Commenting, VLV chairman, Jocelyn Hay said:
‘This spring sees two vitally important public consultations on the future
of broadcasting in Britain. The public is largely unaware of them,
yet the outcomes will affect not only the programme choices open to individual
listeners and viewers, but whether our terrestrial channels will be able
to continue providing a public service which nourishes and sustains British
cultural and democratic life.
VLV is holding its meeting on 4 March to
stimulate debate and encourage every person to seize the opportunity to
respond and make their views known through these crucially important consultations.
To book a place please
click here.
For further information contact: Jocelyn
Hay on 01474 - 352835 or e-mail : vlv@btinterent.com
For full details of VLV contact:
Telephone: 01474 352835.
Fax: 01474 351112.
E-mail: vlv@btinternet.com
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