Special General Meeting
There are still places available at the Save Kids’ TV special General Meeting in London on the 16th October ‘07. This will be your chance to find out more about Ofcom’s report on its Children’s Public Service Review and discuss SKTV’s reactions to it. It’ll also provide an opportunity to learn more about the consultation process Ofcom will undertake up to the end of 2007 and the various options it sees as potential ways forward. The SKTV Exec will outline initial thoughts on their proposal for a funded alternative Public Service Provider for kids, and are looking for ideas on how the campaign should progress from here.
Save Kids’ TV was born in a series of meetings which followed the Showcomotion Conference in the summer of 2006. Since then there has been tangible progress in the extent to which the funding crisis and its implications are understood by the regulator and by key politicians. SKTV took a pivotal role in co-ordinating the activities of the many bodies campaigning and has been instrumental in putting the issue of kids’ entitlement to their own stories in their own programmes onto the public agenda. But there’s a great deal more to be done to ensure that Ofcom recommends a properly funded solution to the problem. We need to galvanise the support of parents, and kids themselves, so that Ofcom and the politicians they advise are in no doubt as to what the public want for their kids - the best TV - and the funding to pay for it.
To do this we need the help, ideas, expertise, networking abilities and skills of the hundreds of you who have already signed up in support. Please come along to the meeting to contribute to the next phase in the campaign’s development.
The meeting will take place in the London Gifted and Talented Offices, 130 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1 at 6.30pm - 8.30pm on Tuesday 16th October. We need to know the number who’ll be there, so please RSVP to admin@savekidstv.org.uk and we’ll respond with the full address details.
