British media convergence bigwig to speak at SPAA
Stephen Carter, the man who re-engineered the UK’s regulatory landscape for media, is to offer a presentation on convergence at next month’s SPAA conference.
The session at the Screen Producers Association of Australia event is highly timely because Australia’s media regulations are undergoing a similar review to that carried out by Carter around seven years ago.
Carter created the UK super-regulator Ofcom after the merger of several individual media regulators. He later became a government minister and is now boss of telco giant Alacatel-Lucent.
According to SPAA, Carter’s presentation will cover media convergence issues around the three Ps of politics, policy and profit.
During his previous business career, Carter also had a stint as an executive with advertising agency JWT.
The announcement follows news last week that Gareth Neame, managing director UK of NBCUniversal international TV production and head of TV hit series Downton Abbey will be a keynote speaker at the conference.
Prior to his appointment at NBCUniversal, Neame was managing director of Carnival Films, producing shows such as Hotel Babylon, Poirot, and Whistleblowers and before that, head of drama commissioning at BBC responsible for development and production of Spooks, Hustler and Clocking off.
Also speaking at the conference will be Emile Sherman (The Kings Speech) and Nelson Woss (Red Dog) in an ‘on the couch’ session and international guests Joe Matukewicz, Vice President of World Acquisitions, Relativity Media and Bart Wilson of Cinetic Media.
The SPAA Conference runs from November 13 to 16 at Sydney’s Hilton.
What the hell is SPAA thinking giving the time of day to people like these?
UK ‘chief censor’ – ‘super regulater’? Wonder if Paul Fenech’s seen this?
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