ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY Committee Group Chairs
Committee Group Chairs (listed annually according to Group)
ADVERTISING SPECIALIST GROUP 1984-86 Peter Battle
ALEXANDRA PALACE COMMITTEE 1986-88 John Ware
ARCHIVES 2015-17 Steve Bryant 2017- Dale Grayson
AWARDS REVIEW (AND FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE from 1990) 1975-76 Vic Gardiner 1976-78 John Vernon 1978-82 Brendan Slamin 1982-83 Donald Cullimore 1983-84 David Glencross 1984-88 Robert Rowland 1988-03 John Gau 2003- David Lowen
BAIRD TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE 1971-74 G.B. Townsend 1974-76 D.E.P. Jenkins
COMMERCIAL AWARDS 1992-96 Tim Bell
COMMUNICATIONS 2001-05 Sally Osman 2005-06 Nicola Howson 2006-13 Sophie Cohen
COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST GROUP 1984-87 Desmond Morse 1987-94 David Gregory
DESIGN AWARDS (LATER CRAFT & DESIGN AWARDS) 1990-91 Spencer Chapman 1991-94 John O'Hara 1994-95 Janet Street Porter 1995-00 Michael Lumley 2000-05 Vernon Lawrence 2005-06 David Liddiment 2006-09 Paul Jackson 2010-14 Nigel Pickard 2015-17 Cheryl Taylor 2017- Lee Connolly
DESIGN SPECIALIST GROUP 1985-89 Mary R. del Castillo 1989-90 Peter Pegrum 1990-94 Colin Lowrey
DIVERSITY 2002-03 Andrea Wonfor and Tamara Howe 2006-11 Lucy Pilkington 2011-17 Marcus Ryder 2017- Angela Ferreira
DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT SPECIALIST GROUP (This merged with the New Technologies Specialist Group in 1987) 1984-87 Reg Gray
EARLY EVENING EVENTS 2001-02 Katie Taylor/Sally Doganis 2002-04 Simon Shaps 2004-06 Sue Robertson 2006-11 Kate Bulkley 2011- Dan Brooke
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 1975-76 Peter Wayne 1976-77 Vic Gardiner 1977-78 Neville Watson 1978-79 Arthur Clifford 1979-80 Phil Sidey
EDUCATION 2015- Graeme Thompson
EDUCATION SPECIALIST GROUP 1984-88 Robert MacPherson 1988-92 Eurfron Gwynne Jones 1992-93 Alan Rogers 1993-94 Eurfron Gwynne-Jones 1994-97 Paul Ashton 1997-00 Jane Drabble 2000-03 Michael Stevenson
EDUCATIONAL TV AWARDS 2003-06 Andrew Bethell 2006-07 Glenwyn Benson 2008-10 George Entwistle
FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE 1972-73 T.H. Bridgewater 1974-76 Neville Watson 1986-88 George Pagan 1988-90 Stuart Sansom
FINANCE AND RESOURCES SPECIALIST GROUP 1984-87 John Keeble 1987- Terry Smith (From 1994 FINANCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY) 1994-97 Dick Bates
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEES 1967 Bernard Marsden 1977-79 Tony Pilgrim 1977-79 Mike Cox 1983-86 Buzz Bowen
FUTURE TELEVISION 2006-08 Christine Mitchell
HISTORY 2015-18 Don McLean
HISTORY AND ARCHIVES SPECIALIST GROUP 1984-92 Leonard Miall 1992-03 Anne Hanford 2003-07 Steve Bryant 2007-13 John Trenouth 2014-15 Don McLean
IBC LIAISON 2001-02 Michael Lumley 2004- Terry Marsh
INNOVATION AWARDS 2006-07 Jennie Evans 2007-12 Jeff Henry
JOURNALISM AWARDS 1984-88 John Gau 1988-94 Brian Wenham 1994-96 Barry Cox 1996-01 Richard Tait 2001-03 Nick Pollard 2003-05 Richard Sambrook 2004-08 Stewart Purvis 2008-12 Nick Pollard 2012-14 Richard Sambrook 2015-17 Stewart Purvis CBE 2017- Sue Inglish
MARKETING
1997-98 Michael Bunce 1998-99 Elizabeth Tims 1999-04 John Hardie
MASTERCLASSES 1995-00 Sally Doganis
MEDIA FACULTIES LIAISON 1999-06 Brian Winston
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE (Later the Fellowship and Membership Policy Committee) 1974-76 Tom Robson 1976-80 Ray Mobsby 1980-82 Corney Webster 1982-86 Tony Kay 1986-88 George Pagan 1988-90 Stuart Sansom
MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE 1985-88 Carol Haslam
MULTICHANNEL (From 2004 FUTURE TELEVISON) 1999-03 Joyce Taylor 2003-04 Christine Mitchell
MULTIMEDIA 1996-97 Duncan Thomas
NEW TECHNOLOGIES SPECIALIST GROUP (This Group began as a Committee Group in 1983 under the Chairship of Charles Sandbank) 1984-85 Charles Sandbank 1985-86 Ian Millar 1986-90 David Kitson 1990-97 John Ive
NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS SPECIALIST GROUP 1984-87 Tony Crabb 1987-93 Christopher Capron 1993-98 Sue Tinson 1998-01 Stephen Claypole 2001-03 Nigel Dacre 2005-06 Richard Sambrook 2006-11 Jim Gray
PAPERS COMMITTEE This committee was set up in the 'sixties to take on the duties and responsibilities of the Lecture Secretary. It was allied to the London Centre. 1967-74 M.H. Cox 1974-76 John Tucker 1982-83 Brendan Slamin
PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE (LATER MARKETING , PRESS AND PR) 1978-80 Donald Cullimore 1980-82 James Arnott 1982-86 Donald Cullimore 1986-92 Michael Bunce 1992-98 Sarah Thane 1999-00 Keith Samuel 2000-01 Roy Addison
PRODUCTION SPECIALIST GROUP 1984-85 Michael Darlow 1986-88 Keith Williams
PRODUCTION TRAINING COMMITTEE 1980-81 Leonard Chase
PROGRAMME AWARDS COMMITTEE 1971-72 Stuart Sansom 1972-74 Neville Watson 1974-76 Peter Wayne 1976-83 John Vernon 1983-85 Jon Scoffield 1985-88 Shaun Sutton 1988-90 David Rose 1990-93 Charles Denton 1993-97 Andrea Wonfor 1997-00 John Willis 2000-02 Mark Thompson 2002-05 Tim Gardam 2005-07 Claudia Frankenstein 2007-09 Lorraine Heggessey 2010-15 David Liddiment 2015-17 Alex Mahon 2017- Wayne Garvie
PROGRAMME SERVICES SPECIALIST GROUP 1985-86 Peter Mavius
RECRUITMENT 1994-99 Keith Clement
RTS FUTURES 2008-10 National Chair: Andy Duncan; London Chair: Camilla Lewis; 2011-16 Camilla Lewis 2016-17 Donna Taberer 2017- Alex Wootten
RTS TECHNOLOGY BURSARIES 2016- Simon Pitts
SPONSORSHIP ADVISOR 2001-02 Tim Brady
SPORTS AWARDS 1996-00 Will Wyatt 2000-03 John Bromley 2003-05 Michael Grade 2005-07 Jonathan Martin 2007-12 John Rowlinson
STUDENT VIDEO AWARDS 1996-02 Paul Jackson
STUDENT TV AWARDS 2002-07 Paul Watson 2007-12 Peter Salmon 2012-14 Patrick Younge 2015-16 Stuart Murphy 2016- Phil Edgar-Jones
TECHNICAL AWARDS COMMITTEE 1971-72 Peter Rainger 1972-73 G.G. Gouriet 1973-74 Peter Rainger
TECHNICAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST GROUP 1984-88 Robert Wright 1988-90 David Ogle 1990-92 John Barlow 1992-93 John Try 1993-97 Bob Wilkinson
TECHNICAL TRAINING COMMITTEE 1980-81 R. Roberts
TECHNOLOGY 1997-01 Peter Booth 2001-03 Peter Owen 2003-06 Chris Daubney
TELEVISION NEWS AWARDS COMMITTEE 1972-73 Stuart Sansom 1973-75 George Cook
TRAINING POLICY COMMITTEE 1977-79 R. Roberts 1979-81 Robert Rowlands 1981-83 C.R. Longman 1983-86 Harold Anstey 1986-88 C. Daubney 1988-91 Duncan McEwan 1991-99 Harry Urquhart
TV DINNERS 2005-07 Simon Shaps
VETERANS 2006-07 Tony Crabb 2007-12 Roy Addison 2012-15 Paul Jackson
WORKSHOPS 1995 Tracy O'Keefe 1995-97 Andy Bird 1997-00 Martin Hart