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Public Service Broadcasting Forum

Thursday, June 10, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

Public Service Broadcasting Forum

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The Future of Public Service Broadcasting - June 10th 2010

A symposium organised by openDemocracy and hosted by City University’s Department of Journalism


You are invited to participate in an all-day symposium chaired by Steve Hewlett, presenter of Radio 4’s The Media Show, and hosted by City University’s Department of Journalism. The symposium embraces the current consultation on the BBC's Strategy Review in asking a broader question: what is the future for pluralism in the supply of public service content in the UK?

Schedule:

10.30 - Refreshments and welcome

11.00 - Introduction: Frank Field, Anthony Barnett and Steve Hewlett

11.15The role of the licence-funded BBC and the significance of the Strategy Review

  Panel: Caroline Thomson (Chief Operating Officer, BBC), Professor Steven Barnett,      Mark Oliver, Professor Richard Collins

12.45 - Lunch

13.30 - How to identify, supply and fund the PSB needs the BBC cannot fulfil

Panel: Jonathan Thompson (Director of Strategy, Ofcom), Geraint Talfan Davies, Blair Jenkins, Richard Hooper

15.00 - Refreshments

15.15 - The public service media content that merits support in the digital future, and how it can         be funded

       Panel: Tony Curzon Price, Claire Enders, Sunny Hundal, Helen Shaw

16.45 - Summing up: David Elstein


The symposium is the physical culmination of the online Public Service Broadcasting Forum, an editorial series and online discussion board. Launched on 29 March by Frank Field MP on the openDemocracy website, the Forum aims to debate the status, health and future of public service broadcasting in parallel with the public consultation period of Putting Quality First, the BBC’s formal Strategy Review.

 

The PSB Forum has already published dozens of posts – speeches, documents, opinions, research papers, proposals and comments – dealing with current broadcasting matters, all of which are freely available at www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/collections/psbf. It is open to all quality contributions and we hope participants will engage in this online discussion in the run-up to the symposium. Contributions to the Forum will be summarised for participants in the symposium in their email pack ahead of the event.


The attendance fee will cover morning and afternoon coffee and a sandwich lunch. 


Whether or not you can participate in person, you are welcome to contribute online with short articles, comments or papers for publication on the website.


Contributions and queries should be sent to the Forum’s moderator, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal at:

daniel.macarthur-seal@opendemocracy.net


You can also subscribe to the Forum's editorial email to be kept up to date with the ongoing discussion.