EURALVA - The European Alliance of Listeners' and Viewers' Associations
Current Activities
The EURALVA/VLV/ Conference
Serving the Citizen: Broadcasting Accountability in an Online Europe on Friday, 7th October 2011
at The Edinburgh Story Telling Centre, 45 High Street, Edinburgh
programme booking form or visit www.vlv.org.uk website to pay online in Sterling
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Previous Conferences:
Date: Friday, 15th October 2010
14th International Conference
Title: The challenges of the public television in the new audiovisual scenario
- programme - conference report
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
Date: Tuesday, 6th October 2009
13th International Conference
Title: Listeners and Viewers in the Digital Age - programme conference leaflet
Venue: Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: Monday, 10th November 2008
12th International Conference
Title: Building Circles of Trust - the Future Relations between Citizens and Public Service Broadcasters in Europe - programme - report
Venue: IESE - Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa, Madrid, Spain
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Date: 8th & 9th October 2007
VLV's 11th International Conference
Venue: Co-op House, Copenhagen, Denmark
Address given by Professor Vincent Porter
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Date: 11th February 2005
VLV's 10th International Conference
Venue: The Royal Society, London SW1
Keynote speakers included:
Ken Clark, CEO, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation; Karol Jakubowicz, Vice-Chairman, Steering Committee on the Mass Media, Council of Europe and Expert, National Broadcasting Council of Poland; Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC World Service and Global News; Adam Singer, Content Board Member, UK Office of Communications & former Group CEO, Telewest, & CEO, Flextech, and Verena Wiedemann, Head of European Affairs, ARD, Germany.
The Copenhagen Conference started with a visit to the Danish Broadcasting, DR, at its new headquarter near Copenhagen City. Among the participants are here from the left, Nuno de Campos, Portugal, Manfred Kops, Germany, in the background Lars Peter Melchiorsen, Denmark, and to the right Ian Morrison, Canada.
Information about the Public Service Broadcasting in the UK was given by the chairman of VLV, Jocelyn Hay.
The conference coordinator: Preben Sørensen, Denmark, General Secretary, EURALVA.
Another very active participant at the Copenhagen Conference: Andrew Taussig, UK
Participants at the international EURALVA Conference in Copenhagen in October 2007
The President of EURALVA, professor Vincent Porter, U.K., in his speech in October 2007, when the participants in the international conference visited the Danish National Public Service Station, DR.
Participants at the EURALVA Conference in Copenhagen who came from East and Central Europe.
Date: 26th - 27th April 2004
EURALVA Annual Meeting and Conference on Broadcasting and Civil Society In The Digital Age
Venue: The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1.
EURALVA held its 7th annual meeting in London on 27 April, 2004, prior to VLV's 9th International Conference.
VLV's 9th International Conference examined the implications for civil society of the increasingly rapid convergence of communications technology, the proliferation of new services and the opportunities for controlling access which digital technology makes possible.....
International Conference in London 2004
Date: 24th - 26th April 2002
'VLV's 8th International Conference: Terrorism, Trade and Truth - the role and responsibilities of the broadcasters in times of rapid political, economic and technological change'.
Held at the Royal Society of Arts, Strand, London WC2.
Date: 6- 8 June 2001
VLV 7th International Conference
At the Royal Society of Arts, London WC2
Public Service Broadcasting & Citizens in the Global Information Society
Key issues discussed included
- the role and funding of public service broadcasting in the digital environment
- the new round of WTO negotiations\European audio visual policy initiatives
- the funding and production of indigenous children's programmes
- media literacy and lifelong learning