Press Releases29 Sep 04

Church conference on public service broadcasting

CHURCH CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING

The Church of Ireland is to help identify issues of concern among faith communities about public service broadcasting at a conference to be held in Church of Ireland House, Church Avenue, Dublin on Thursday, 14 October 2004 at 10.15am.

The one-day conference is described as a Consultation on Diversity and Religion in Public Service Broadcasting that will bring together representatives from RTE, BBC, UTV, government and various faith communities.

Key speakers include Dr Andrew Finlay, Sociologist, TCD who will look at Diversity in the New Ireland Understanding the Census 2002; Dr Jim McDonnell, Media Analyst, London speaking on Public Broadcasting, Religion and Diversity: Irish Religious Broadcasting in a European Context and Christine Morgan, BBC Religion and Ethics, Manchester on Coping with Diversity the example of the BBC.

Conference organiser, the Revd Dr Alan McCormack, said: "This event is an opportunity to identify those issues that concern faith communities and to draw them to the attention of legislators and programme makers."