Broadcasting Regulation Master Class 23rd-26th June 2008

The Broadcasting Regulatory Master Class is the perfect event for regulators, broadcast policymakers, broadcast media practitioners and lawyers, as well as for those who study broadcast media and media regulation.

The Course provides delegates with comprehensive and in-depth analysis and knowledge of the principle traditional issues of broadcast regulation including content and licensing. But it will also examine new and emerging issues such as convergence, spectrum management, intellectual property rights and digital switchover.

The Course will cover:

• Communications regulation in a globalised world
• Independence of regulators
• Convergence
• Competition legislation
• Regulating ownership
• Licensing
• Legal drafting-regulation and guidelines
• Programme content and standards
• Applications of regulatory rules and codes
• Regulation of public broadcasting
• Regulating a digital environment
• Markets and economic regulation

 

In addition, there will be practical workshops using real examples of regulatory issues with the opportunity to discuss individual cases with Albany Associates’ experts and course tutors.

The Master Class will take place at one of London’s most prestigious combined hotel and conference centres - The Cumberland Hotel. Please note that the language for the Master Class will be English.

 

• Members and senior staff of broadcasting regulatory authorities
• Members and senior staff of converged communications regulatory authorities with specific responsibility for the regulation of the broadcasting sector
• Staff working in ministries of government departments associated with broadcasting and broadcast regulatory policy
• Lawyers working in the field of broadcasting regulation
• Broadcasters wishing to learn about regulation or how to work successfully with the regulator
• Students and academics studying broadcasting or media regulation

 

Albany Associates is an international consulting company specialising in the regulation of broadcasting and media and advising on establishing communications regulatory frameworks. Supporting the critical inter-linkage between policy and regulatory implementation. Albany also develops communications and public diplomacy strategies to assist in the public understanding of how the two issues are mutually dependent.

The company provides experience-based practical advice and project management services to a varied worldwide client base including governments, international organisations and agencies, broadcast and telecommunications regulators, press-self-regulatory bodies, NGO’s and media businesses.

Albany Associates can call on an extensive team of multi-disciplined international consultants with global expertise in communications, regulation, broadcasting, media law, public relations and management training.

For more information about Albany Associates please click here…

 

Day 1

Introduction to the Master Class

Introduction of staff and delegates. Agreeing the outcomes of the
course.

Session 1  Communications Regulators in a Globalised World

Presenter: Dr Katrin Nyman- Metcalf and Douglas Griffin

• General principles of communications regulation
• Best international practice
• Requirements of International law
• Questions of Jurisdiction
• Regional issues

 

Session 2  Why regulate broadcasting?

Presenter: Dr Katrin Nyman- Metcalf and Douglas Griffin

We will examine the drivers to the regulation of broadcasting:

• Democratic purposes
• Cultural and consumer protection reasons
• Economic purposes

And the legal frameworks used for regulation

Session 3 What is Good Regulation?

Presenter: Dr Katrin Nyman- Metcalf and Douglas Griffin

• Proportionality
• Accountability
• Consistency
• Transparency
• Targeting

Are there others which apply specifically to broadcasting?

Session 4 Independence of Regulators

Presenters: Dr Katrin Nyman-Metcalf and Dieter Loraine

• Importance of independence
• Ensuring independence while maintaining proper accountability
• Role and functions of responsible policy-making and implementing agencies
• Real life examples of conflicts and resolutions between agencies
• Communicating with Stakeholders, Government and Licensees

 

Day 2

Session 1 Licensing and Licence Conditions

Presenter: Eve Salomon

Without licences, the regulator will find it difficult to enforce regulation.

• Different types of licences
• Spectrum allocation
• Licensing styles
• Licensing processes
• Licence Conditions

 

Session 2 Application of regulatory rules

Presenter: Eve Salomon

The public’s generally accepted standards change over time and the
regulator must keep in line with these changes.  We will consider:

• The role of research
• Codes
• Complaints and complaints handing

 

Session 3   Programme Content Standards

Presenter:  Stephen Whittle and Eve Salomon

The average citizen is most concerned about the regulation of
programme content.  n this session we will begin to consider:

• Protection of democratic principles
• Protection of minors
• Offence to human dignity/taste and decency
• Protection against harm
• Protection of the individual
• Protection against crime, disorder and hatred
• Religious programmes

 

Day 3

Session 1  Programme Content Standards – applying the principles

Presenter: Stephen Whittle and Eve Salomon

In this session we will view examples of real broadcasts which have raised potential regulatory concerns.  The group will have the opportunity to discuss them and consider what regulatory reaction is appropriate.

• Sanctions
• Principles and Procedures

 

Session 2  Advertising and Sponsorship

Presenter: Eve Salomon

How should the commercial aspects of radio and television be
regulated? We will look at:

• Advertising content regulation
• Scheduling of advertising
• Regulation of sponsorship
• Product placement
• Regulatory remedies

 

Session 3 The Way Forward: Convergence, Digital and New media
Regulation

Presenter: Eve Salomon

• Convergence of regulators
• Differences in Sector regulations
• Interactivity in broadcasting: Consequences for regulation
• Digital and new media regulation

 

Day 4

Session 1 Regulating the Media During Elections

Presenters: Douglas Griffin and Dieter Loraine

• Media Rules and Codes
• Monitoring Elections coverage
• Working with Election Commissions

 

Session 2 Markets and Economics

Presenter: Nicola Floyd

• Competition
• Significant Market Domination
• Ownership
• Plurality

 

Session 3 Markets and Economics

Special presentation by the Director General of the Communications
Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kemal Huseinovic.

 

Session 4 Sweep Up

Before we end there will be some time for delegates to raise any
additional questions which they may have.

 

 

The City of London

London offers a sophisticated setting for this in-depth, residential programme. For the first time visitor, there is the magic of the Thames, the Tower of London, Westminster, red buses and famous names like Big Ben, Oxford Street and Harrods.

 

 

London reaches out to embrace diverse people and cultures. It is a combination of 2000 years of history and twenty first century experiences. London encompasses the best that the world has to offer – in the arts and culture, business and commerce, sports and events, cuisine and entertainment.

 

 

 

The Cumberland hotel

The Master Class is held at the Cumberland Hotel. Visitors to London will find the Cumberland Hotel an ideal base. Situated by the spectacular Marble Arch in the centre of London, the hotel is close to many of the city’s famous attractions. Re-opened in 2004 after an extensive refurbishment, it focuses on style, design, and of course providing quality personal service. Each of the 900 bedrooms have their own décor and personalised works of art as well as the most up to date technology for entertainment or business.

 

How to get there

Maplink
Click here for online map

Road
From Marble Arch monument take the first left down Great Cumberland Place where you will find the hotel's main entrance.  NCP parking is available nearby on Bryanston Street at an additional charge.

Rail
From Victoria Railway Station (2 miles), take the bus to Oxford Street and Marble Arch.  The Cumberland's hotel entrance is situated on Great Cumberland Place.  Paddington and Marylebone station are also 2 miles away.

Air
From Heathrow (18 miles), take the Heathrow Express train (every 15 minutes) to Paddington Station.  A taxi ride from Paddington will take 10 minutes to get to the hotel.  Alternatively you can catch the Heathrow Airport Bus Service that stops on Oxford Street.  When you are Oxford Street you will need to turn right onto Great Cumberland Place where you will find the main entrance of The Cumberland.

For more information about the hotel and its facilities please click here...

 

The Master Class will be lead by Eve Salomon and Stephen Whittle, supported by other expert Albany consultants and some members of the Albany Advisory Board.

Eve Salomon is an international expert in broadcasting regulation and law having worked throughout Europe, in Africa and the Americas. She is a legal expert for the Council of Europe and the author of the UNESCO/Commonwealth Broadcasting Association publication, guidelines for Broadcasting Regulation (published February 2006). Eve joined the UK’s Independent Television Commission in 1992, later moving to the Radio Authority where she was Director of Legal Services. She was part of the core team which set up Ofcom, the UK’s converged media and telecommunications regulator, where she was the initial Board Secretary. Since 2004 she has been a consultant specialising in regulatory and media issues and is Commissioner of the Press Complaints Commission.

Stephen Whittle was the BBC’s Controller of Editorial Policy for five years. His role was to ensure that the BBC observed the highest ethical and editorial standards. As Controller, he was involved in some of the most high profile BBC investigations, for example into racism in the police service and corruption in the Olympic movement. Stephen was previously Director of the Broadcasting Standards Commission (1996-2001), a regulatory body covering all broadcasters and dealing with issues o fairness and privacy, and taste and decency. Stephen also advises public service broadcasters throughout the world on ethical issues in programme making.

Katrin Nyman-Metcalf is Professor of International and Comparative Law at Audentes International University in Tallinn, Estonia and a regular visiting professor at universities in Georgia, Latvia and Sweden lecturing in public international, EU and comparative law with a special emphasis on communications law. Her PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden (1999) deals with the law of outer space including legal issues related to the use of space for communications. Apart from her academic work, Professor Nyman-Metcalf is active as an international consultant in the area of communications law (telecommunications and media) as well as infrastructure and general institution building. Projects include regular legal analysis of media and communications legislation for the OSCE and Council of Europe, EU legislative projects and various professional training projects.  In 1998-1999 Dr. Nyman-Metcalf was Head of the Legal Department of the Independent Media Commission (later Communications Regulatory Agency) in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina and later (until 2004) active as legal advisor to the Agency. She was also involved as advisor and as member of the first Council of the broadcast regulator in Kosovo (until 2007) and is currently involved in training the Iraqi communications regulator. Dr. Nyman-Metcalf has published extensively on international and EU law, including on media issues. She is an Estonian national, resident in Tallinn and speaks seven languages.

Dieter Loraine is co-founder of Albany Associates. He has over 15 years experience of strategic communications, institution building and media and regulatory development. Prior to forming Albany he was Senior Consultant for Media Regulation with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Media Development and Regulation Advisory Team in Iraq. Between 2001 and 2003 he was Acting Deputy Director General and Director of Communications for the Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) in Bosnia and Herzegovina – at the time, Europe’s newest converged regulator. During his time with the CRA he also served as Special Adviser to the UK Press Complaints Commission. Dieter is credited with designing and establishing from scratch the Bosnian Press Council, the first of its kind in South East Europe.

Between 1998 and 2001 he held two senior positions as Director of Broadcast Licensing and Director of Public Affairs in the Independent Media and Broadcasting Commission in Sarajevo. Prior to working in the Balkans, Dieter ran a flourishing public relations company in the UK, following a very successful career in the Royal Marines, retiring in 1995 as Assistant Director of Public Relations for the Royal Marines in the UK Ministry of Defence.

Douglas Griffin is an attorney specialising in media and communications issues.  He has worked in the United Arab Emirates providing advice on regulatory issues, in Sudan on a public information campaign related to the peace process in Darfur, and in Iraq on capacity building projects with the media and telecommunications regulator.  He is also advising Jordanian institutions on the establishment of a media law curriculum, the development of an annual media law and policy institute, and other law and policy issues. 

Doug was the lawyer for the Media Development and Regulatory Advisory Team that Albany Associates deployed in Iraq.  In that capacity, he drafted codes and regulations applying to Iraqi media, drafted legal opinions designed to protect the media and public service broadcaster from government influence, drafted procedural rules for administering complaints against media, drafted media legislation for presentation to the Iraqi legislature, and advised the Iraqi interim and transitional governments on the role of independent regulators of media and telecommunications. 

Prior to his position in Iraq, Doug worked with Internews Europe where he assisted media rights advocates in developing countries and was in private practice for five years with the international law firm of Latham & Watkins in New York, Moscow and Paris representing clients on a variety of media and communications matters.

 

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The Administrator
Broadcast Regulatory Master Class
Albany Associates Ltd
Fox House
10 Whimple Street
Plymouth, PL1 2DH
Devon, UK

Fax: +44 (0) 1752 604 200

For more information please contact Dieter Loraine or Anna Staevska on:
Tel: +44 (0) 1752 604 211
Email: masterclass@albanyassociates.com