The VLV held its 41st Spring Conference, on Wednesday 24th April at the Geological Society in Piccadilly, central London. You can view the full programme here.
We celebrated all that Public Service Broadcasting provides for audiences in the annual VLV Awards for Excellence, which were hosted by broadcaster Clive Myrie. Our focus during the conference was on how British broadcasting can be supported to ensure it keeps delivering benefits for citizens in the UK.
In the morning we heard from Dame Caroline Dinenage DBE MP, the Chair of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, and from Kevin Lygo, Managing Director, Media and Entertainment, at ITV, who leads the commissioning of all ITV’s content. The first session was chaired by Torin Douglas MBE, former BBC media correspondent, and the second session by Romilly Weeks, ITV News Political Correspondent and Presenter.
At lunchtime we held the VLV Awards for Excellence, hosted by broadcaster Clive Myrie with VLV President Tony Hall, Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE.
In the afternoon we explored the impact podcasting is having on live radio audiences in a session chaired by broadcaster Roger Bolton. The speakers on our expert panel were David Lloyd, co-founder of Boom Radio, Jonathan Wall, Director of BBC Sounds, Aradhna Tayal Leach, Managing Director of the Radio Academy, and Matt Deegan, founder of Folder Media.
Our final session of the day, chaired by former VLV President and Chair of Ofcom, Dame Colette Bowe DBE, looked at what public service content should include and how it should be funded. Our speakers were the Chief Executive of MG Alba, the Gaelic media service, Donald Campbell, Sarah Clarke, Chief Operating Officer of ITV’s Media and Entertainment Division, Aaqil Ahmed, former Head of Religion and Ethics at both Channel 4 and the BBC and Trustee of The Sandford St Martin Trust, and Jackie Edwards, former head of the Young Audiences Content Fund which supported the production of UK children’s content.
Videos of all the sessions will be available on this page in due course.
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