Transforming Television in the New Media Age?
Stuart Cosgrove - Director of Nations and Regions at Channel 4
When: 6th December 2007, 10am - 12.30pm
Cost: Free of charge and open to all
Where: The Lighthouse
Overview
Channel 4's Stuart Cosgrove is one of Scotland's leading thinkers on media and culture and at this event he discussed the distance that television is travelling to transform itself in the new media age.
Biography
Stuart Cosgrove is Channel 4's head of programmes (nations and regions). He joined the station in April 1995 and has overall responsibility for Channel 4's programmes and creative development strategy outside London. As the channel's controller of arts and entertainments, he was responsible for managing arts and entertainment, sports and Channel 4's flagship American programmes such as ER, Friends and Frasier. The department also commissioned some of Channel 4's most memorable long running programmes including Father Ted, Eurotrash and The Big Breakfast.
Stuart was born in Perth, Scotland, graduated in Drama and English at the University of Hull, and has a PhD in media. In the '80s he worked as an editor for the NME and The Face, establishing a reputation as one of Britain's leading pop culture commentators. His cult radio series Off The Ball is Scotland's most popular radio show, winning a Sony Award in 1999 for Britain's best interactive entertainment show.
