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Spring 2007 Bulletin 87 Voice of the Listener & Viewer Working for Quality and DiversityBulletin in Broadcasting Winter 2006/07 Issue 87 Fresh Visions from Familiar Faces - sustaining quality content into the digital age Thursday, 19 April, London, SW1 VLV's 24th Spring Conference will present members and guests with an opportunity to hear at first hand about the future plans of ITV, BBC Radio and Ofcom and to have an update on progress towards digital switch-over now due to start in less than a year. At 10.40am, Michael Grade, until November At 11.45am, Jenny Chairman of the BBC Governors, now the new Abramsky, once Director Executive Chairman of ITV, will give the opening of BBC Radio and Music, address. He will share his vision of the future of but recently appointed BBC the company, until recently able to compete with, Director of Audio and Music and quite often beat, the BBC in the range and in accordance with the high quality of the programmes it commissioned BBC's re-structuring plans and broadcast. 2006 was a low point for ITV with designed to meet the falling audiences and threats of take-over. Will he challenges of new and be able to redirect the company and restore it to converging technologies. its former glory? BBC Radio audiences are riding high at the moment and choosing to listen more and more via new means of delivery, including the internet, mobile Presentation of VLV's 2006 Awards phone and digital television. But will BBC Radio, already run on very tight budgets, suffer from the for Excellence in Broadcasting lower than expected licence fee settlement? How does she see its future? Sue MacGregor, the distinguished broadcaster and journalist will At 3pm, Ed Richards, the present the winners of VLV's 2006 Awards for Excellence in new Chief Executive of the Broadcasting with their trophies. The Awards are kindly organised by regulator Ofcom will VLV Board member, Terry Glover, and sponsored by The Voice of the outline how he sees his Listener Trust. The names of the winning programmes and individuals future role in discharging are all nominated and chosen by VLV members. They are drawn from a Ofcom's responsibilities very wide range of genres and interests for the pleasure they bring to three years after it was viewers and listeners. Almost all the winners attend in person to established by the 2003 collect them. We look forward to seeing and congratulating the lucky Communications Act. The pace of change in ones this year. broadcasting is now so rapid that Ofcom is already finding it difficult to maintain the positive public service remit imposed on ITV by the Act, and has given ITV permission to cut its obligatory hours of Inside regional, children's and religious programmes. He will also look at the need for negative regulation VLV Board New BBC Structure Consultations & Responses in protecting consumers and vulnerable viewers. At 3.45pm, Ford Ennals, Chief Executive of Children’s TV Guest Contributor Student Essay Competition Digital UK , the company responsible for ensuring Editorial Comment Autumn Conference Letters the UK makes a smooth switch-over to digital by 2012, will give an update on progress to date. VLV HoC Meeting Book Review Competition & Concert At 4.20pm the conference will end with a VLV members' forum. ISSN 1475-2948 VLV Board Enlarged at 4th AGM More than 50 people attended the 4th AGM of VLV Ltd in London on 28th Voice of the Listener & Viewer November, which followed the Autumn Conference. The Chairman recalled that Working for Quality and Diversity in British Broadcasting 2006 had been a sad year with the death of Professor Naomi Sargant and her own VLV Patrons bereavement. On the positive side she welcomed the opportunity to introduce VLV's Lord Barnet PC JP first Executive Director, Peter Blackman, who, thanks to a generous grant from the Archbishop Lord Eames of Armagh Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, took up his appointment full time on 19th June. Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS Lord Inglewood MEP Mrs Hay gave her special thanks to her colleagues NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO THE BOARD WERE: Sir Charles Mackerras, KT, CBE on the Board of Directors and the VLV Trust who so Robert Clark Dame Mary Peters DBE freely gave their time and expertise, and also to all After a career managing Lord Phillips of Sudbury OBE those members who so kindly continued to give Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE state benefit provision in support to VLV and herself. VLV could not exist East London that ended Lady Solti without that generous help and interest, whether Lord Thomson of Monifieth KT PC with early retirement moral, in kind or financial, she said, adding particular Sir John Tusa Robert has spent the last thanks to all the contributors to VLV's 2006 Appeal ten years doing voluntary Directors 'Promoting the Public Interest in Broadcasting'. The work, mostly for Jocelyn Hay CBE (Hon Chairman) Appeal was launched by Melvyn Bragg (Lord Bragg_ community organisations. Colin Graeme Thompson FCA, FIRM (Hon Treas.) at the end of September and was now over half way He has been a member of Robert Beveridge to reaching its target of £30,000. VLV since the early 1990s John Clark Mrs Hay also thanked the Gravesend staff and and has a passion and concern for diverse, high Robert Clark the interns, Amy Peters and Peter Elms, who had quality Radio. Robert took an active part in the Professor Ivor Gaber given invaluable help with the website, with consumer consultation on BBC Charter renewal. Terry Glover research and in the office. He is the VLV representative on the groups Norman Green The first Resolution which increased the Professor Brian Groombridge monitoring the interests of consumers during maximum number of Directors on the Board from Professor Sonia Livingstone digital switch over including the Ministerial 10 to 13, reflected the fact that VLV now had Professor Máire Messenger Davies, PhD, FRSA, Consumer Expert Advisory Group on switch-over. Warren Newman directors based in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Robert also attends consultative meetings at Wales. As all the directors do a huge amount of Ofcom on behalf of VLV. Company Secretary voluntary work for VLV in formulating policy, Waterlow Registrars Ltd drafting responses and, those in the nations, also Ivor Gaber The Voice of the Listener Trust organising conferences and other events, it had Ivor, a broadcaster, been decided to enlarge the Board in order to researcher and (reg charity 296207) increase the representation, widen the breadth of consultant, is Emeritus VLV’s sister charity which supports VLV’s educational work expertise and experience, and spread the load. Professor of Broadcast Hon Chairman: Elizabeth Smith OBE The second Resolution added the new Journalism at London Hon Secretary: Jocelyn Hay CBE Executive Director to the approved list of those University's Goldsmiths Trustees: who can be co-signatories to cheques. College and Research Michael Barton Professor in Media and RESIGNATION OF DR ANDREW TAUSSIG & Professor Sylvia Harvey Politics at the University PROFESSOR BOB FRANKLIN Dr Andrew Taussig of Bedfordshire. He has We were very sorry to receive the resignation of served as a media and politics consultant to a VLV office hours: Dr Andrew Taussig who has been such a valuable variety of organisations, governments and 9.00am - 5.00pm Mon-Thurs member of the Board for the past three years. We international bodies. His journalistic career has are delighted that he will be staying on as a included senior editorial positions at the BBC, ITN, Voice of the Listener & Viewer Ltd (VLV) member of the Voice of the Listener Trust. Channel 4 and Sky News. He has just completed a represents the citizen and consumer We were also very sorry to lose Professor Bob consultancy project in Uganda where he helped interests in broadcasting and works for Franklin in January. Professor Franklin joined the set up the country's first national news agency. He quality and diversity in British broadcasting. Board in November 2005, just after moving to the has been a member of VLV since the mid 90's and VLV is free from political, sectarian and Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Culture. He has spoken at a number of VLV events and commercial affiliations. VLV is concerned organised a very successful conference for VLV in conferences. He is Deputy Chair of the with the issues, structures, institutions Wales in March 2006 but now finds his new duties Communications Section of the UK UNESCO and regulation that underpin the British leave him insufficient time to play an active role. National Commission and is on the organising broadcasting system and in particular We are glad he and his Department remain committee for World Press Freedom Day. to maintain the principles of public members and we look forward to seeing him at service in broadcasting. future events. Norman Green Fellow VLV does not handle complaints. Jocelyn Hay was unanimously re-elected as of The Royal Television Honorary Chairman and thanked for all her work Society Design & Production on behalf of VLV. Norman started his High Profile Ltd, Tel: 01474 533077 Following the formal business of the AGM, Mrs career at EMI Research Published by Voice of the Listener & Viewer Ltd, Hay chaired a Members' Forum in which a wide Laboratories working on A private company limited by guarantee range of issues was discussed. They included some of military projects including (number 4407712) Registered address: the problems members were having with reception, television cameras for the 101 Kings' Drive, Gravesend, Kent DA12 5BQ. including the quality of DAB radio and the lack of Black Knight rocket.
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