The Knowledge - Andy Lloyd James
The Knowledge is a series of interviews with leading screen industry figures, conducted by experienced film journalist Andrew Urban and published via the CSB blog.
Andy Lloyd James- biography
Andy Lloyd James began his television career in 1970, directing and producing documentary and arts programs at ABC TV. Moving through Executive Producing, he became head of the Documentary Features Department in the early eighties. In 1988 he became Head of Television at SBS-TV and in the mid-nineties he conceived and inaugurated SBS Independent, the broadcaster’s commissioning wing for independent productions. In 1996 he was invited to become Head of Drama at the ABC and within a year had been appointed to the ABC Executive as Head of National Networks with responsibility for ABCTV, the five national Radio networks and ABC OnLine.
He left the ABC in 2000 and has subsequently divided his time between consulting to a range of clients including State and Federal agencies, developing a new channel for Foxtel and, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, developing a major industry-supported research project exploring the shape of Television in 2015. In 2000 he was awarded, in the Queens Birthday Honours, the Public Service Medal for Outstanding Public Service to National Public Broadcasting. He has also served as Head of the Centre for Research and Screen Studies at AFTRS.
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Chapter 1 - Challenges and opportunities- 12 minutes
- Broadcasters should outsource all but news & current affairs
- Digital technology - a huge opportunity for broadcasters and producers
- Building a fatter basis for business
- Producers here exist only on fees – change will come when they can hang on to rights
- Change of regulation required – to abolish deficit funding (by broadcasters)
- Public broadcasters should be better funded – to underpin independent production
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Chapter 2 - The role of public broadcasting - 11 minutes
- Public broadcasting in UK came before commercial, not in Australia
- Public broadcasting not as an alternative but as nation building
- Also a role in maintaining multiple agendas for discussion
- Public broadcasting needs to rebuild the national agendas
- There needs to be a massive public push and new boards
- Challenges in public broadcasting - decisions about money
- Drama needs investment
- Qualitative measure & ratings – why they matter to public broadcasters
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