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The Media Club with Matt Deegan
Should YouTube Be Regulated?
Ep. 360
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We're in Edinburgh for the last installment of the Edinburgh International TV Festival before it moves to Manchester next year. But there's plenty of energy on show in this season finale, as YouTube's Pedro Pina delivers the Festival's keynote - the MacTaggart lecture - and unsurprisingly, was not keen on more regulation or of their platform.
Also on the show: where's innovation? Fenton Bailey - World Of Wonder - joined us for an in depth interview this week which you can see on YouTube. During the chat he had a very particular metaphor for the crisis in television... TV Critic Scott Bryan and indie chief Geoff Jein (Biscuit Jim) dissect the theory.
All that, plus conversations with award winners TwoFour, Banijay, Persephonica and Quay Street Productions - and, in the Audio Network Media Quiz - we rundown the big commission announcements of the week with Entertainment Exec Rina Dayalji and Broadcast Magazine's Chris Curtis.
The Media Quiz is sponsored by Audio Network. Alex selects the music for us to score each episode and she and her team can do it for you too at https://audionetwork.com
We record at Podshop Studios - for 25% off your first booking, use the code MEDIACLUB at podshoponline.co.uk
Chapters:
0:00 - Edinburgh TV Festival special
0:33 - YouTube’s Pedro Pina on regulation and public service prominence
6:42 - Fenton Bailey’s Titanic metaphor and TV’s innovation crisis
13:16 - Matt Brittin, the BBC and the future of public broadcasting
18:31 - Rethinking the BBC licence fee and Public Media 2028
25:52 - Audio Network on human-made music and AI
30:22 - Quay Street Productions' Nicola Shindler on drama, funding and what commissioners want
36:34 - Persephonica on podcasting, YouTube and Amol Rajan’s next move
43:20 - Banijay on global formats, creators and building the next big franchise
53:34 - TwoFour's David Clews on 'Educating...', Destination X and taking risks in TV
1:00:27 - Audio Network Media Quiz: Commission Impossible
1:06:46 - Festival takeaways: noisy TV, YouTube and an industry in flux
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A Rethink Audio production, produced by Matt Hill with post-production from Podcast Discovery.
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