Keynote Panel Examines The Changing Face Of
Diversity On Television:
A New Urban Reality
Sponsored By Television Week
Network executives, noted scholars and more examined “The Changing Face of Diversity on Television: A New Urban Reality” during this keynote panel, held Nov. 4, 2006, as part of the Next TV conference. (Click or scroll down to see photos below.)
Featuring television industry and media professionals, daylong forum Next TV sought to provide attendees with tools and information necessary to compete in today’s evolving telecommunications landscape.
Candace Bond McKeever, Television Academy Diversity Committee Chair, and BET Entertainment President Reginald Hudlin produced the "Changing Face of Diversity" keynote session, focusing on the reality of diversity in the television industry and the impact of new media in lowering the traditional barriers to entry.
Writer-filmmaker Nelson George moderated the discussion with a distinguished panel including:
Mara BrockAkil - Executive Producer, CW series Girlfriends
Eddie Arnold - Vice President Government Affairs, Nielsen Media Research
Payne Brown - Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Comcast Corporation
Vic Bulluck - Executive Director, NAACP Hollywood Division
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson - Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies; and the Avalon Foundation
Reginald Hudlin - President, BET Entertainment
Changing Face Of Diversity On Television: A New Urban Reality NEXT TV Keynote Session • Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre Photos: Mathew Imaging
Mara Brock Akil (r.), producer of CW series Girlfriends, talks with NEXT TV attendee.
Television Academy COO Alan Perris (l.) and
Vic Bulluck, head of the NAACP Hollywood Division
Panelist Eddie Arnold, Vice President of Nielsen Media Research's Government Affairs division.
Panelist (l. to r.) Vic Bulluck, BET Entertainment head Reginald Hudlin and University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson.
Panelists Vic Bulluck, Reginald Hudlin and Mara Brock Akil on the Television Academy plaza.
Next TV forum attendees hear television production, research, network and education pros discuss changing demographics and technology.
Next TV's "Changing Face of Diversity" panelists (l. to r.): Eddie Arnold, Mara Brock Akil, Vic Bulluck, Payne Brown, Nelson George, Candace Bond-McKeever, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and Reginald Hudlin.
