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EXCLUSIVE: “The UK’s role in the media multiverse” will take up plenty of airtime at the RTS Cambridge Convention, according to Theresa Wise, as the great-and-the-good of the TV industry prepare to gather for the biannual get-together.
Wise, the RTS CEO for a decade, pointed to huge international players set to keynote the two-day event including CAA Chairman Bryan Lourd and Liberty Global MD Mike Fries. With the industry experiencing tough times as the economic crisis, ad recession and U.S. strikes combine to slow production to a stutter, the UK’s “role in the media multiverse” will be up for discussion, according to Wise, who said speakers will likely tackle the American labor action and its impact on the UK head on.
Lourd will be speaking just a few weeks after French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault agreed to buy a majority stake in CAA. Wise said the CAA Chair won’t be afraid to tackle big topics such as the strikes. “I would be amazed if they are not discussed and Bryan will speak to some of these,” she added.
This year’s convention features big hitters such as James Corden speaking for the first time post-Late Late Show, Piers Morgan and the heads of the major broadcasters, the latter of whom “generally acknowledge this is not the easiest year [for broadcasting],” said Wise.
She stressed that the Convention has previously had splashy international names such as Ari Emanuel and Reed Hastings but acknowledged that there are some big draws for 2023.
Wise credited Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon, this year’s Convention Chair, for bringing the spark.
“The essence of a great RTS Convention is that it is chaired by someone senior from the industry,” she added. “This brings to bare the convening power of the industry.
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