In Conversation – Sharon White with Julie Etchingham | RTS Cambridge 2019
At her final Cambridge, Ofcom’s CEO Sharon White talks to ITN’s Julie Etchingham about the challenges facing our industry.
At her final Cambridge, Ofcom’s CEO Sharon White talks to ITN’s Julie Etchingham about the challenges facing our industry.
Tim Davie, Chief Executive at BBC Studios, is joined by Tim Hincks, Co-CEO at Expectation, Stephen Lambert, CEO at Studio Lambert, and Alex Mahon, CEO at Channel 4, as they discuss the future of unscripted television and where the new breakout formats for UK production are.
Rob Chapman, CEO at Founders Intelligence, Paul Bojarski, CEO at Sceenic, Timothy Armoo, CEO at Fanbytes, Love Island's Amber Gill and vlogger and entrepenuer Caspar Lee look at how Gen Z have turned their backs on traditional TV to create content for a wider audience.
Carolyn McCall, CEO at ITV, sets the scene for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2019 with a wide ranging look at the challenges and opportunities for the television industry in a fast-changing world.
Host Susanna Reid talks to Neil Mortensen, Kevin Lygo and the consumer panel in Leeds with Ranvir Singh, about the the changing TV landscape.
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It is a massive honour to be speaking today at the RTS. The Royal Television Society, the only place left where the word Royal isn’t followed by the words “shuts down Parliament”.
The RTS has consistently been at the forefront of highlighting the issue of diversity in the television industry.
I gave my first speech at the RTS over ten years ago, talking about how TV desperately needs more diversity and it’s a mark of how far society has come that I’m back today - to talk about how TV desperately needs more diversity.
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First I want to take us back 40 years. A time before we learned words like ‘value chain’, ‘strategic reprioritisation’, ‘disintermediation’, or indeed ‘backstop’.