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The Edinburgh International Television Festival, founded in 1976, is held annually over the British August bank holiday weekend at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre

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The Edinburgh International Television Festival, founded in 1976, is held annually over the British August bank holiday weekend at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Edinburgh International Conference Centre

The Edinburgh International Conference Centre, or EICC for short, is the principal convention and conference centre in Edinburgh, Scotland....
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Featuring prominent television industry voices and sessions covering pertinent issues facing the future of broadcasting, the Festival is best known for its keynote address; the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. This was named in honour of the writer, producer and director who died in 1974. The lecture features prescient speeches from controversial and powerful media figures that reads like a who's who of British TV over the last 3 decades. In recent years this has included Greg Dyke

Greg Dyke

Gregory Dyke is a journalist and Presenter. He was Director-General of the BBC of the British Broadcasting Corporation from January 2000 until 29 January 2004 when he resigned following heavy criticism of the BBC's news reporting process in the Hutton Inquiry....
, John Birt, Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson

Mark John Thompson is Director-General of the BBC of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004, and a former Chief executive officer of Channel 4....
, Tony Ball, John Humphreys

John Humphreys

John Humphreys may refer to:* John Humphrys , British broadcaster, journalist and author* John Humphreys , Australian economist and libertarian...
and in 1989, Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
. Probably the most well known speech was by an ill Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter was an England dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social....
in 1993 when he attacked the then chairman and director general of the BBC by saying; "you cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Dalek

Dalek

The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial life in culture race of mutants from the United Kingdom science fiction on television series Doctor Who....
s appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."

John Birt returned to give the Lecture in 2005. The ex-ITV plc

ITV plc

ITV plc is a United Kingdom media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom....
Chief Executive Charles Allen gave the 2006 lecture. Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Dixon Paxman is an England journalist, author and television presenter. He has worked for the BBC since 1977. Best known for his abrasive and forthright style of interviewing on the BBC's Newsnight programme, he has been praised as tough and incisive and criticised as aggressive, condescending and irreverent....
gave the 2007 lecture, using it to criticise what he saw as a loss of purpose and moral direction in the industry.

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