The Uncertain Future of Public Service Broadcasting: Will Religion have a Place in it?

Public Service Broadcasting (PBS) is in an existential crisis. The BBC, stuck with a frozen licence fee and rocketing inflation, is cutting back and preparing for a future without state funding. ITV wonders whether it should remain a public service broadcaster, and Channel 4 is being deserted by younger viewers who are turning to Tiktok and You Tube. Religious broadcasting was already in retreat before this latest crisis. Can anything be done to secure its future in a rapidly changing media environment?

When | Thursday 18 May 2023, 7.30-c.9pm

Where | St Albans Cathedral & Online via Zoom Webinar

Cost | £10 (£6 students)

Speakers| Dean Jo Kelly-Moore and presenter, Roger Bolton

Roger presented Feedback and the Sunday Programme for Radio 4 and Right to Reply for Channel 4. Before that he was a BBC executive and also edited various television programmes including Heart of the Matter and Panorama for the BBC and This Week for Thames Television. He is a trustee of the Religion Media Centre, and on the Little Gaddesden PCC.

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