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Please contact Ralph Montague, Producer DVD Signature of Cardholder Features on 020 8743 8000, via VLV, or by email, I would like to pay by Bankers' Order I Gift Aid I please send me a form. care of claire [email protected] 8 Bulletin Spring 2006 Voice of the Listener & Viewer Ltd, a private company limited by guarantee, registered no: 4407712 Voice of the Listener & Viewer Working for Quality and DiverBulletinsity in Broadcasting Spring 2006 Issue 85 Controller BBC 1 and Chief Executive New Director Channel 4 will speak at VLV’s Spring Conference for VLV For the first time, Wednesday, 26 April VLV has appointed The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 a full-time Director. This very important After the BBC Charter: What Future for Pluralism step in the development of in Public Service Broadcasting? the organisation has been made possible Peter Fincham, Controller Now that the White Paper has set out a clear role by the support of BBC 1, will give the morning for the BBC over the next decade, it is important to the Esmée Fairbairn keynote speech at 11.00am: consider how plurality of PSB provision may be Foundation. The with Matt Wells, Guardian sustained in the years ahead. Andy Duncan will set Media Editor, in the chair. out his views on public service broadcasting and the Board of VLV is His theme will be central role that Channel 4 will play as we move extremely grateful Mainstream Television in towards a fully digital world and take questions. for the Foundation’s generosity, an expression of a Multi-channel World. The conference takes place just two days before confidence in the role which the organisation He will consider the future role the end of the public consultation on the Government continues to play within the broadcasting of the BBC’s flagship channel and take questions. White Paper on BBC Charter Review and with just two community. years before the process of switching off of analogue Peter Blackman is to take up his post on 19that Andy Duncan, Chief television transmissions begins in Border region. A June. He has previously held positions as Assistant Executive of Channel 4 capacity audience is anticipated comprising broadcasters, Director, British Bankers’ Association; Executive will give the afternoon regulators, academics, consumer and civil society Committee Chairman and Head of Public Relations keynote speech at 2.45pm. representatives and VLV members, listeners and viewers. Kate Bulkley, journalist, for the Small Firms Lead Body, and Director of the broadcaster and writer Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Association. His Tickets available from VLV office or website. on new technology, will be experience also includes extensive management, in the chair. His theme will Corporate £100, charities £55, business and financial consultancy and the be Public service plurality individual concessions £25, students £12 provision of training to a range of organisations. in the digital age. His current appointment is as Director of the Churches’ Media Council. He is married with two grown-up children and an 18-month old After the Charter, what Plans for the BBC? granddaughter. Thursday, 18 May VLV chairman, Jocelyn Hay, announcing the appointment, expressed her delight at welcoming Over Seas House, Park Place, St James, London SW1. 6.00 for 6.30pm Mr Blackman. She said that VLV needs to develop fast to confront changes in the rapidly changing Mark Thompson, BBC of the BBC and to give his views on its role media field and it must prepare itself for an even Director General will and funding in the much more competitive be the speaker at the environment to come. Jocelyn Hay, VLV Chairman more important role as advocate for the citizen last of VLV ‘s Evening will take the chair. and consumer interests in broadcasting. Mr Seminars on the Blackman brings, she said, ‘a range of experience Tickets available from VLV office or website. Government White which will be essential as VLV expands to meet £15, include wine reception from 6pm Paper on BBC the increasing demands placed upon it.’ Charter Review. The formal Inside consultation on the Government VLV New Board Member Editorial Comment Book Reviews White Paper will have ended by the time that the BBC Director General speaks to VLV members VLV Summer Lecture Programme BBC White Paper Scottish & Welsh Conferences and guests in May but it is highly unlikely that VLV Summer Conference Guest Contributor Letters the new Charter will have been signed by then. Nevertheless we expect him to take the VLV 2005 Awards Digital Update Competition opportunity to outline his vision for the future ISSN 1475-2948 PD James and John Simpson gave the first of VLV’s Lectures in 2006 P D James (Baroness James of James Purnell MP and Sir Christopher Bland Voice of the Listener & Viewer Holland Park OBE) opened spoke at the first of VLV’s seminars on the BBC Working for Quality and Diversity in British Broadcasting the VLV 2006 Lecture series White Paper. VLV Patrons on 31 January at the British James Purnell MP, Minister Lord Barnet PC JP Academy in London SW1. for Tourism and the Creative Archbishop Lord Eames of Armagh In a revealing discussion Industries was the speaker in Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS with Sue Macgregor, the the first of VLV’s London Lord Inglewood MEP broadcaster and Seminars on the Government Sir Charles Mackerras, KT, CBE journalist so sorely White Paper on BBC Charter Dame Mary Peters DBE missed from the Today programme, Lady James Review on 21 March.