The Fund, Ofcom and the PSBs
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/05/2019
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lewis Silkin Llp
Category(ies)
- The Young Audiences’ Content Fund
- Ofcom’s new powers to require Public Service Broadcasters to do more for kids and teens.
- Find out progress on applications to the Young Audiences Content Fund.
- Comment on the criteria for selection.
- Discover the extent to which commercial match-funding is being offered.
- Consider the broadcasters responses to Ofcom’s request for new proposals for future engagement with the children’s and youth audience – and discuss how Ofcom should respond.
- Assess whether the new opportnities are coming together to stimulate a new era of commissioned content.
- Have your say on the future of children’s content in the UK.
Host:
Stewart Purvis, former CEO and Editor-in-Chief of ITN and Ofcom Partner for Content and Standards.
Panelists:
Magnus Brooke, Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs, ITV
Jackie Edwards, Head of the Young Audiences Content Fund, BFI
Oli Hyatt, Animation UK
John McVay, Chief Executive, Pact
Ben Roberts, Director, BFI Film Fund
Megan Thomas, Senior Policy & Public Affairs Executive, Channel 4
Tickets:
Free to supporters and patrons of the Children’s Media Foundation. £10 to others.
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