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Five sessions in less than three hours is the format that has been used for these seminars. An invited audience of between 40 and 50 broadcasters, analysts, commentators, regulators, academics, students and journalists listened to – and then questioned – nine speakers, ending with a wrap-up from former broadcaster and regulator Stewart Purvis, of City University.
The thrust of the morning was to offer a corrective to the recommendation from the House of Commons Media Committee report (see my post on this) that the BBC Trust be replaced by a unitary board comprised of executives and non-executives in equal numbers.
