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Leading broadcasters to speak on Future of the BBC and ITV
events |News Release 30 March 2005
:Tim Bishop, Head of Regional and Local Programmes, BBC East, and Graham Creelman, Managing Director, ITV Anglia will discuss the Future of the BBC and ITV at an evening seminar to be held in the Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich on Tuesday, 12th April, from 7.00 pm - 8.30pm. The meeting will be chaired by Rosemary McCulloch, Governor , Peterborough Foundation Hospital and former National Vice-Chairman, University of the 3rd Age.
Issues to be discussed will include:
* the Green Paper on the Future of the BBC whose Royal Charter expires in 2006 Plans by ITV&to halve its non-news regional and religious programming by the end of 2005 together with ITV ’s intention to drop nearly a third of its children ’s programmes
* plans to switch from analogue to digital broadcasting in East Anglia by 2011.
Commenting, VLV Chairman, Jocelyn Hay, said: ‘The Government published its Green Paper on the Future of the BBC on 2nd March. The public consultation which ends on 31st May will provide the last opportunity for anyone outside Government to influence the future of the BBC. VLV is therefore organising a series of seminars around the country to raise awareness of the vital role that the BBC and public service broadcasting play in British life and democracy, and of the threats to the quality of radio and television that now exist. We want to encourage as many people as possible to respond to the Green Paper and to reflect their views in VLV ’s own response.\" The seminar is being organised by Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV ) with support from Charter 88 and the Andrew Wainwright Social Reform Trust. For more information and free tickets: contact VLV on: 01474 352835 e-mail: info@vlv.org.uk or visit our website: www.vlv.org.uk
DATELINE: 24 January, 2010
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