Seminars
BBC Television Seminar
14 October 2004
As part of the BBC Charter Review, Terry Burns, the Government’s
independent advisor, convened a number of informed seminars to examine
different aspects of the BBC’s role and functions.
As Lord Burns was unable to participate on this occasion, Howard Davies and Tim Gardam - members of his panel of experts - chaired and facilitated on the day. They were joined by heads of BBC television and a number of specialist industry representatives on the top table. The seminar took place in front of a small invited audience made up of members of the public who each responded to our initial consultation earlier this year, and members of the broadcasting industry.
The seminar examined the position and role of BBC television in the current broadcasting ecology, and looked at issues surrounding the future provision of BBC television in a digital age.
The seminar also provided space for discussion about the BBC’s current television output, and examined questions relating to the quality of programming and content across the BBC’s entire television portfolio, including the BBC’s digital channels. The seminar also addressed issues surrounding the role of the BBC as producer, commissioner, and broadcaster of television.
View archived webstreams of this seminar at: www.bbc.co.uk/thefuture/seminars/dcms_seminars.shtml
Seminar Transcript:
We have produce transcripts of each seminar. Every attempt
has been made to accurately transcribe the debate, however, due to the
acoustics of the conference room, this transcript may contain minor
errors.
Transcript
for the seminar on BBC Television PDF (225kb)
If you have any comments or queries, please
contact the Charter Review team.
Seminar Papers:
Agenda (PDF 12kb)
Executive Summary from 'Independent Review of the BBC's Digital Television Services
Executive Summary from 'Phase 2- Meeting the digital challenge: Ofcom review of public service television broadcasting', Ofcom, September 2004 (PDF 245kb)
Headlines of BBC Statements of Programme Policy 2004/2005- Television (PDF 27kb)
TV Reach and Share Figures (source: BBC, October 2004) PDF (91kb)
The BBC and Production (a paper drafted by DCMS in consultation with the BBC and PACT) (PDF 91kb)
Extracts from DCMS' consultation report 'What You Said About the BBC, DCMS 2004
Chapter 7: Publicly-funded services and functions (PDF 97kb)
Chapter 10: Organisation and Infrastructure (PDF 80kb)
Chapter 5: The BBC Today (PDF 83kb)
Extracts from 'Building Public Value: Renewing the BBC for a digital World', BBC, June 2004
Chapter 3: Building Public Value in the future (PDF 49kb)
(point 3.3 re BBC television aims - innovation and originality, commitments to drama, comedy and less derivative programming)
Chapter 4: Demonstrating Public Value (PDF 46kb)
(point 4.2 re measuring BBC performance and quality)
Guest Speakers:
Professor Steven Barnett
Professor Patrick Barwise
Peter Bazalgette
Jana Bennett
Maggie Brown
Luke Crawley
Roly Keating
David Liddiment
Ed Richards
Dr Bill Robinson
Simon Shaps
Andrew Zein
Guest Speakers Biographies PDF (423kb)
Related Information:
Independent
Advisor & Panel
Some of these documents are available online in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
format.
