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Don't let them pull the plug on public service broadcasting
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Monday, 22 February, 2016, 18.00-20.30
Where
House of Commons Committee Room 10
The NUJ's cross-party Parliamentary Group is holding a meeting about the future of public service broadcasting.
With concerns about the privatisation of Channel 4, the potential sale of ITV, the renewal of the BBC's charter, plus funding of S4C, the NUJ is bringing together supporters of a broadcasting service which serves all the UK's viewers and to join a campaign for quality public service TV and against privatisation.
Speakers
Helen Goodman, NUJ Parliamentary Group chair.
Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ general secretary.
Maria Eagle, shadow culture minister, tbc
John Nicholson, SNP spokesperson on culture, media and sport and a member of the DCMS select committee. John is a former broadcast journalist who has worked for the BBC, for programmes such as Panorama and Newsnight, and ITV News Channel where he presented Live with John Nicolson, a three-hour morning news magazine until 2005.
Vince Cable was the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2010 to 2015 and the LibDem Member of Parliament for Twickenham from 1997 until losing his seat in the 2015 election.
Liz Saville-Roberts is Plaid Cymru MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd.
Dorothy Byrne, Channel 4’s Head of News and Current Affairs.
DATELINE: 5 February, 2016
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