{"id":59034,"date":"2015-07-12T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T08:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3f48a4dd95174b7dab8ba72b1f82cf5e"},"modified":"2015-07-12T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T08:45:50","slug":"press-release-industry-experts-to-advise-government-on-bbc-charter-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59034","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Industry experts to advise government on BBC Charter Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has today confirmed the appointment of experts from across a range of industries to support the BBC Charter Review process.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory group will play an important role in the government\u2019s plans to deliver a transparent, open and democratic Charter Review. Its remit will be to provide expertise, innovation and advice for the process and policy of the review of the BBC Royal Charter by:<\/p>\n<p>providing strategic independent oversight and challenge to the Charter Review programme of work; and<br \/>\nbringing to bear their own personal experience and expertise on the policy debates.<\/p>\n<p>The group takes in representatives from a range of backgrounds, with different experiences and differing views about the BBC. The advisory group members are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dawn Airey \u2013 Senior Vice President of Yahoo\u2019s business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and formerly Chairman and Chief Executive of Channel 5.<\/li>\n<li>Dame Colette Bowe \u2013 Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, President of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer, and former Chair of Ofcom.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Fisher &#8211; Executive Chairman at Shazam. <\/li>\n<li>Darren Henley OBE \u2013 CEO of Arts Council England and former Managing Director of Classic FM.<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Highfield \u2013 CEO of Johnston Press, one of the largest local media groups in the UK, and former director at the BBC.<\/li>\n<li>Alex Mahon \u2013 former CEO of Shine Group, global television content production company.<\/li>\n<li>Lopa Patel MBE &#8211; digital entrepreneur and founder\/CEO of NewAsianPost.com and Diversity UK.<\/li>\n<li>Stewart Purvis CBE &#8211; British broadcaster and academic, and former Editor-in-Chief and CEO of ITN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport, John Whittingdale MP, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Each member of the independent advisory group brings individual skills, experience and expertise. Together they will contribute to the oversight of the Government\u2019s Review of the BBC Royal Charter. I look forward to working with them on this important issue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Members have been appointed in a voluntary capacity and on the basis of their personal experience, not as representatives of their respective organisations. They will meet up to six times a year, with additional members co-opted as and when required by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"notes-for-editors\">Notes for editors<\/h2>\n<p>Media enquiries \u2013 DCMS News and Communications team \u2013 020 7211 2210 or out of hours on 07699 751153.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1114129\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/444136\/TERMS_OF_REFERENCE.pdf\">Terms of Reference for the BBC Charter Review Advisory Group <\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">60.9KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">2 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of experts from across a range of industries have been appointed by the Culture Secretary to support the BBC Charter Review process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}