The TV Festival is relocating from Edinburgh to Manchester next year after half a century.<\/p>\n
Organisers said it was moving from the Scottish capital “amid increasing challenges around accessibility, affordability and sustainability” across the television industry.<\/p>\n
The TV Foundation, which has run the event since 1976, praised Greater Manchester’s vision for the festival which “combined genuine creative ambition and future-facing energy”.<\/p>\n
It said it would be able to “radically reduce” costs for delegates by moving the festival to Manchester. Edinburgh will host the event for the last time on 25-28 August.<\/p>\n
The festival features independent debate within the television industry, with more than 60 keynote speakers, debates, and masterclasses. <\/p>\n
It attracts some of the biggest names in the sector, with presenter Graham Norton, actor Michael Sheen and American comedian, writer and producer Tina Fey taking part in last year’s event. <\/p>\n
The 2027 festival is set to take place in St John’s, Manchester’s newest creative district, with the dates yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n
The decision was taken by the festival’s board of directors after “an extensive consultation and competitive bidding process” was launched last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The TV Festival is relocating from Edinburgh to Manchester next year after half a century. Organisers said it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}