Make the most of your rights!
A Royal Television Society conference to explore future opportunities for the creative industries in Wales
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

Tuesday 11th October Attending the conference was a great opportunity to listen to speakers from the main broadcasters in Wales as well as from independent Welsh TV production companies. Marcus Liassides from Ubivisium Ltd gave a particularly interesting speech about the future of IPTV and the possibilities it gives for anybody with the 'rights' to be a broadcaster. I was also interested in the announcement Iona Jones, the new Chief Executive of S4C gave regarding their archive material. She announced that S4C would be transferring the responsibility for archiving footage to independent production companies. It will be interesting to see what use they make of archive material, and I believe it gives them another opportunity to exploit this material through the use of new media. I found the day extremely valuable. Not only did it give me a great insight into the television industry in Wales, but it was also an opportunity to meet a lot of important people within the industry and put faces to names. The topics discussed were also particularly relevant to ourselves as New Media Trainees. There was a lot of talk about the importance of training young people for the industry and it seemed that some of the independent production companies were at present lacking people with skills in new media. On the finance side, the importance of using new media methods to exploit UK and International markets appeared to be an increasingly important area for potential profit growth.