ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT 2007 AGM 28 May 2008 at 6:00pm at the RTS, Kildare House, 3 Dorset Rise, London EC4Y 8EN Patrons Pepper Post Production Principal Patrons S4C SMG BBC Sony Business Europe BSkyB Spectrum Strategy Consultants Channel 4 Television UKTV ITV RTS Patrons International Patrons APTN ABN Amro Autocue Accenture Avid Technology Europe Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking Bloomberg Discovery Communications Europe Canon Microsoft Channel Television NBC Universal DTG High Definition Forum RTL Group Granada Television Time Warner Hat Trick Productions Viacom HIT Entertainment Walt Disney Company Ikegami Electronics UK IMS ITV Anglia Major Patrons ITV London ITV Meridian ITV Tyne Tees Arqiva ITV West Ascent Media Networks ITV Yorkshire BT Vision Cable & Wireless Omneon Video Networks Deloitte Panasonic Broadcast Europe DLA Piper PricewaterhouseCoopers Endemol UK Quantel Enders Analysis Radio Telefís Éireann Five Reuters Television FremantleMedia SMG Grampian Television GMTV SMG Scottish Television Guardian Media Group SSVC IMG Media Tektronix (UK) ITN Teletext KPMG Television Systems MCPS-PRS Alliance Ulster Television Millbank Studios University College, Falmouth OC&C Strategy Consultants University of Teesside Ofcom Vinten Broadcast 2 R O YA L T E L E V I S I O N S O C I E T Y REPORT 2007 Contents Patrons 2 Notice of AGM 2008 4 Form of proxy 5 Advisory Council election manifestos 6 Minutes of AGM 2007 7 Board of Trustees report to members 11 National events 2007 25 Centres report 2007 26 Who’s who at the RTS 28 Auditors’ report 30 Financial statements 31 Notes to the financial statements 34 Trustees’ and Directors’ reports 41 Picture credits 47 R O YA L T E L E V I S I O N S O C I E T Y REPORT 2007 3 Notice of AGM 2008 The 79th Annual General Meeting of the Royal Television Agenda Society will be held on Wednesday 28 May 2007 at: 1 To approve the minutes of the previous Annual General Kildare House Meeting held on 23 May 2007. 3 Dorset Rise London EC4Y 8EN 2 To approve the 2007 Annual Report. at 6:00pm. 3 To receive the Financial Report, Balance Sheet and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2007. Voting by proxy Under Article 24, members of the Society are empowered to 4 To elect Sophie Jones, Jonathan Levi and Andrew Shaw appoint a proxy to attend and vote at the AGM. The completed as members of the Advisory Council proxy form, on page 5, should reach Head Office no less than 48 hours before the meeting. 5 To appoint Arram Berlyn Gardner as auditors for 2007/08 and to authorise the Board of Trustees to fix their remuneration. 6 Any other business. 4 R O YA L T E L E V I S I O N S O C I E T Y REPORT 2007 Form of proxy If you wish to I, ....................................................................................................................................................................... appoint another member please of ...................................................................................................................................................................... insert the name of your proxy here. being a member of the above named Society and entitled to vote hereby appoint You may delete reference to the ........................................................................................................................................................................., Honorary Treasurer and Chair. Initial or, failing him, the Honorary Treasurer, or, failing him, the Chair of the meeting, as my proxy to vote for the alteration me and on my behalf at the AGM of the Society to be held on 28 May 2008 at 6:00pm and at any adjourn- ment thereof. In respect of the resolutions referred to in the Notice of the Meeting, I desire my proxy to vote as indicated: For Against Abstain Please insert ‘x’ 1.0 Approve minutes of the previous meeting held on in the appropriate 23 May 2007: box if you wish to instruct your proxy on how to vote 2.0 Approve the 2007 Annual Report: 3.0 To receive and adopt Financial Report, Balance Sheet and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2007: 4.1 To elect as a member of the Advisory Council Sophie Jones: 4.2 To elect as a member of the Advisory Council Jonathan Levi: 4.3 To elect as a member of the Advisory Council Andrew Shaw: 5.0 To appoint Arram Berlyn Gardner as auditors for 2007/08 and to authorise the Board of Trustees to fix their remuneration: (If this form is signed without any indication as to how the proxy shall vote, the proxy will exercise his or her discretion both as to how he or she votes or abstains from voting) Signature ........................................................................................................... Date ..................................... Form of proxy 1 Under Article 24, members of the Society are empowered to vote at the AGM by proxy. To notes be valid, this form of proxy must be deposited at the Royal Television Society, Kildare House, 3 Dorset Rise, London EC4Y 8EN not less than 48 hours before the meeting. 2 The proxy, who must be a member of the Society, must attend the meeting in person to represent you. 3 Unless otherwise directed, the proxy will vote or abstain as he or she sees fit. R O YA L T E L E V I S I O N S O C I E T Y REPORT 2007 5 RTS Advisory Council election manifestos 2008 Sophie Jones Andrew Shaw Head of public affairs, Channel 4 Managing director, broadcast and online, MCPS-PRS Alliance >Sponsors: John Cresswell; Jonathan Levi; Stewart Purvis; Sue >Sponsors: Mark Bradford; Jeff Henry; Ashley Highfield; Jane Robertson; Nick Toon Lighting; Christine Mitchell I have worked in television for 10 years in various public and In the past 20 years I have been lucky enough to work in corporate affairs roles. I joined Channel 4 at the beginning of content and cable businesses in both Europe and Asia, 2008; prior to that I was controller of public affairs at ITV and before joining the MCPS-PRS Alliance some 18 months ago. director of corporate affairs at ITN. Throughout my career television has played a central role. I have been actively involved in the RTS for a number of The RTS enjoys a unique place in the UK’s broadcasting years; I am currently chair of the Communications Commit- ecosystem, creating numerous opportunities for members tee and sit on the Early Evening Events Committee. of the public and particpants from across television to come The RTS has a hugely important role to play in encourag- together to share our understanding and to recognise tel- ing debate and raising awareness of the many issues fac- evisual excellence. ing British television as we enter a period of challenging and I have been an RTS member for 10 years but, until now, exciting change. have not been actively involved in the Society’s work. Having The RTS is also ideally placed to be a forum for debate enjoyed and learnt from so many of the events that the RTS and initiatives to encourage diversity and the engagement of has organised I would like to put something back. young people in television. I look forward to my experience I hope that supplementing what I have done in the UK my playing a positive role in the Society’s work. experiences in Asia and in the music business will allow me to bring a different perspective to the Society’s work. We are all increasingly operating in a global and interde- pendent media and the Society must remain as relevant in Jonathan Levi the future as it has been in the past. I would like to play a role in making that happen. Senior producer/series producer, ITV Productions >Sponsors: Melvyn Bragg; Kate Bulkley; Sophie Jones; Sue Robertson; Simon Shaps I am a producer working for ITV in the specialist factual and arts area. I am currently series producer of Melvyn Bragg’s Travels in Written Britain, exective producer of the South Bank Show Awards and directing documentaries on Simon Cowell and Ronnie Corbett. I am included in the Who’s Who 2008 Young Business Lead- ers edition for my roles at ITV and my role as director of Directors Cut Films in Soho. I was producer of the RTS Review of the Year 2006 and 2007; Broadcast Hot Shot in the Producer category 2006; finalist for Broadcast Young Talent Producer 2005; producer for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2005 session on the future of public service broadcasting; and producer of Mark Law- son’s interview with Alan Yentob for an RTS early evening event in October 2005. I am deeply committed to programme making and finding a way to make arts programmes commercially viable in the future. If I am elected to the RTS Advisory Council I will bring youth, enthusiasm, a wealth of ideas and a commitment to high-quality programme making. 6 R O YA L T E L E V I S I O N S O C I E T Y REPORT 2007 Minutes of AGM 2007 Minutes of the 78th Annual General Meeting of the Royal IBC was out of the Society’s control and this was reflected Television Society, held on Wednesday 23 May 2007 at the in the plan. Royal Television Society, Kildare House, 3 Dorset Rise, Lon- Keith Clement asked if the RTS would have to cut back on don EC4Y 8EN its activities without IBC. Grant Murray said not necessarily – the deficit could be made up in some other way. Arthur Pigott asked why, on page 35, IBC profit was shown Present as a deficit. GM replied that this was due to RTS (IBC) Ltd Sally Osman, Vice Chair (in the chair); Sir Robert Phillis, Pres- recording a profit that the company pays, by way of a deed ident; David Lowen, Honorary Secretary; Grant Murray, Hon- of covenant, to the Society, leaving no reserves.