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British Broadcasting In Crisis? The Commercial Channels & the rise of VOD | Steve Hewlett Debate Two

Watch the second Steve Hewlett Scholarship event 'British Broadcasting In Crisis? The Commercial Channels & the rise of VOD' at 5.30pm on Tuesday 8 December.

Chair John Stapleton, Broadcaster, Former BBC, TV-am, GMTV, ITV, is joined by Sir Peter Bazalgette, Executive Chairman ITV, Former Independent and BBC producer, Claire Enders, Founder, Enders Analysis, Janine Gibson, Assistant Editor & Editor Special Projects, The Financial Times, and Mark Thompson, Former Director General, BBC, Former CEO The New York Times. Thanks given by Tim Davie, Director General, BBC.

British Broadcasting In Crisis? The PSBs | Steve Hewlett Debate One

Watch the first Steve Hewlett Scholarship event 'British Broadcasting In Crisis? The PSBs' at 5.30pm on Monday 7 December.

Chair John Stapleton, Broadcaster, Former BBC, TV-am, GMTV, ITV, is joined by Mark Damazer, Former BBC Trustee & Controller Radio Four, Greg Dyke, Former Director General, BBC, Former CEO LWT, Claire Enders, Founder Enders Analysis, and Alex Mahon, CEO Channel Four Television.

RTS announces 2019 undergraduate bursary scholars

The 2019 RTS bursary cohort (Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian)

2019 sees the RTS offering more than double the number of bursaries compared to the number at launch in 2014.

This year, the list of eligible courses was substantially expanded and for the first time the RTS invited applications from students studying a ScreenSkills accredited higher national diploma. For 2019, 35 bursaries for Television Production and Broadcast Journalism students and eight bursaries for Technology students have been awarded. 

Mark Thompson's Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture speech

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My subject this evening is sovereignty – though there won’t be much about Brexit tonight – and sadly no insights at all about today’s riveting developments.

The questions I plan to raise don’t depend on whether Brexit goes ahead. They’ll matter whether we stick with Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, or head down the pub with Boris and Nigel for a chorus of Roll Out the Barrel. Or even if it turns out we’ve been characters in a play by Samuel Beckett all along – Waiting for Brexit – and the whole point was that nothing was going to happen.

Mark Thompson warns government policies endanger the BBC at the Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture

Mark Thompson, President and CEO of The New York Times Company (Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian)

Giving the third Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture at London’s Westminster University, he accused policy makers of largely concentrating “on tightening the funding pressure and other constraints on the BBC further” including “the disastrous withdrawal of funding free licence fees for the over 75’s” agreed in the 2016 Charter now coming into full effect.  

RTS bursary students and mentors celebrate scheme’s success

Jonathan Brackly, Natalia Wiktorovicz, Joseph McCawley and Sam Vincent (Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian)

Addressing the students and mentors, RTS Education Chair Graeme Thompson said: “You are part of a thriving project, which is making a difference to representation in the TV and screen industry. We fervently believe that we reach the parts that others in the industry can’t reach – and that’s fantastic for the diversity of our industry.”

Charlotte Moore's Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture | Full Video

BBC Director of Content, Charlotte Moore, delivers the Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture 2018, a joint initiative by the RTS and the Media Society.

Moore talked of the threat to British content for British audiences with the rise in popularity of US streaming services like Netflix and Amazon, and spoke of the key ways the BBC will aim to promote content bespoke to Britain in the future.

To donate to the Steve Hewlett Memorial Fund, please visit rts.org.uk/SteveHewlettFund.