[ecrea] VLV Conference 26 November, London - with Lord Patten, Chair of the BBC Trust 10.30-3.45

In a Brave New World? – Moving towards a White Paper
VLV’s 29th Annual Autumn Conference
Monday, 26 November 2012
10.30am – 3.45pm (Registration 10.15am)
The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London WC1
Keynote Speaker: Lord Patten of Barnes, CH
Chairman, BBC Trust with
Raymond Snoddy in the chair


An update and reminder that Lord Patten of Barnes CH, Chairman of the 
BBC Trust, is the Keynote Speaker at Voice of the Listener & Viewer’s 
29th Autumn Conference on Monday 26 November 2012 at this time when all 
eyes are on the BBC. Journalist and broadcaster Raymond Snoddy will 
chair the session. This will give VLV members and other conference 
delegates a unique opportunity to ask Lord Patten questions directly 
about the difficult issues facing the BBC.

Tickets: Students - £30 each including buffet lunch or £17.50 each 
excluding buffet lunch;
Academics - £105 each including buffet lunch (prices inclusive of VAT)
If your university is a VLV institutional member tickets are £50 (£37.50 
excluding lunch)

Roger Darlington will open the conference with a look at spectrum 
issues, including the coexistence of 4G and terrestrial TV and talk 
about his role as the Consumer Representative on oversight board, 
Digital Mobile Spectrum Ltd.

As we await the publication of Lord Leveson’s Report The World Tonight’s 
Robin Lustig will chair a session looking at the media landscape post 
Leveson with Professor Stewart Purvis CBE, Brian Cathcart, founder of 
Hacked Off! and Bob Satchwell, Executive Director of the Society of 
Editors. At the end of the day we have invited Tim Suter, Perspective 
Associates, Professor Steven Barnett, University of Westminster and 
Helen Keefe, from BBC Policy, to assess the media landscape as the 
debate around the Communications Bill begins.

At the conference the winners of VLV’s Student Essay Competition 2012, 
supported by Channel 4 and The Voice of the Listener Trust, will be 
announced and the prizes presented by director and film producer Roger 
Graef OBE.

The Voice of the Listener & Viewer has called on the BBC to learn from 
its mistakes and move on. VLV believes that it is vital that the BBC 
Trust acts urgently and decisively to re-establish confidence in the 
Corporation’s journalism. However, we do not think that this is the 
moment to jump to conclusions about the BBC’s structure and processes, 
which have underpinned much of the excellent journalism that programmes, 
including Newsnight, have produced over the years. The Trust needs to 
establish very quickly what went wrong on these occasions, including 
establishing whether budget cuts are having an unacceptable impact on 
the quality of BBC programming,

Tickets: Students - £30 each including buffet lunch or £17.50 each 
excluding buffet lunch;
Academics - £105 each including buffet lunch (prices inclusive of VAT)
If your university is a VLV institutional member tickets are £50 (£37.50 
excluding lunch)


For further information call 01474 338711 or email 
(Linda.Forbes /at/ vlv.org.uk); or visit VLV website www.VLV.org.uk. Postal 
address: VLV, PO Box 401, Gravesend, Kent DA12 9FY

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