Edinburgh International Television Festival
Founded in 1976 the Festival is held annually
over the August bank holiday weekend at the Edinburgh International
Conference Centre.
Featuring prominent television industry voices
and sessions covering pertinent issues facing the future of
broadcasting, the Festival is best known for its keynote address;
the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. This was named in honour of
the writer, producer and director who died in 1974. The lecture
features prescient speeches from controversial and powerful media
figures that reads like a who's who of British TV over the last 3
decades. In recent years this has included Greg Dyke, John Birt,
Mark Thompson, Tony Ball, John Humphreys and in 1989, Rupert
Murdoch. Probably the most well known speech was by an ill Dennis
Potter in 1993.
John Birt returned to give the Lecture in
2005. The ex-ITV plc Chief Executive Charles Allen gave the 2006
lecture. A highlight of the 2007 event included journalist
and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman giving the MacTaggart Lecture.
Edinburgh international Television
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2011 dates to be confirmed
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