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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.
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 couple of decades. In recent years this has included Greg Dyke, John Birt, Mark Thompson, Tony Ball, John Humphrys and in 1989, Rupert Murdoch. One of the best remembered speeches was given in 1993 by an ill Dennis Potter, who attacked the chairman and director general of the BBC of the day by saying: "you cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."
John Birt, one of Potter's targets, returned to give the lecture in 2005. The ex-ITV plc Chief Executive Charles Allen gave the 2006 lecture. Jeremy Paxman gave the 2007 lecture, using it to criticise what he saw as a loss of purpose and moral direction in the industry. The media commentator Maggie Brown has criticised the event for featuring only three women as speakers (Christine Ockrent, Verity Lambert and Janet Street-Porter) in the course of its history.[1]
Current major sponsors are MediaGuardian - Title Sponsor, BBC, Blitz, Channel 4, The Farm, Glow Labs, ITV, Sky and YouGov.
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STV Local
Mon, 13 May 2013 02:22:23 -0700
The Oscar-winning star will deliver the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture in late August, which sets the tone at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Spacey was the star and executive producer of drama series House of Cards which ...
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The Guardian
Mon, 13 May 2013 01:29:36 -0700
Oscar-winning actor to bring Hollywood star power to Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Hacked Off's wealthy donors revealed. Hedge fund manager, writer Simon Singh and friend of Robbie Williams have given thousands to press law ...
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C21Media
Mon, 13 May 2013 02:24:11 -0700
Kevin Spacey will deliver the opening MacTaggart Lecture at this year's Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. The Academy Award-winning actor, director and producer, who exec-produced and starred in Netflix's first original series House ...
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Broadway World
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:57:43 -0700
The jury will select two writers or writing teams to attend the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF), and three writers or writing teams for the New York Television Festival (NYTVF). Places for both events are open to British UK ...
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Glasgow Evening Times
Tue, 14 May 2013 00:16:05 -0700
... show bypassed TV channels. Tweet. Custom byline text: The star will deliver the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture in August, which sets the tone at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. Contextual targeting label: Arts and Entertainment ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Sun, 12 May 2013 11:45:32 -0700
✒The appointment of ITN's Deborah Turness to run NBC's news division confirms the form (as horseracing fans would say) of the position of advisory chair of the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, a role in which Turness shone in 2010.
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The List
Mon, 13 May 2013 05:09:01 -0700
Actor Kevin Spacey will deliver the MacTaggart Lecture at the 2013 Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. The Festival, which runs from 22 to 24 August 2013, is a broadly industry-focused event, meaning the lecture is only open to event ...
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Broadcast
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:49:23 -0700
Jessica Hynes and Jennifer Saunders are to sit on a Bafta jury that will hand emerging comedy writers a place at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. The comedians will join television executives including Big Talk's Kenton Allen and ...
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