{"id":678322,"date":"2026-07-07T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678322\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:31:08","slug":"bbc-boss-matt-brittin-to-make-edinburgh-tv-festival-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678322\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Boss Matt Brittin To Make Edinburgh TV Festival Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> Director General <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-brittin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-brittin\" data-tag=\"matt-brittin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Brittin<\/a> will make his first major industry appearance at the final Edinburgh Television Festival in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe will sit down for an \u2018In Conversation\u2019 talk about the first few months in what is British media\u2019s most-scrutinized job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrittin <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/bbc-confirms-matt-brittin-director-general-tim-davie-1236761334\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">succeeded Tim Davie in the top job<\/a> at the BBC on May 18, becoming the first DG since Greg Dyke in 2000 with no prior experience at the public service broadcaster. Instead his background was working for tech giants, most notably as Google\u2019s boss in EMEA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEdinburgh is pitching his appearance as his chance to introduce himself to an industry crowd that is wracked with apprenhension about the future of the BBC, the business and production in general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cMatt Brittin arrives in Edinburgh at a critical moment for the BBC,\u00a0with charter renewal ahead and a whole industry waiting to hear what the next chapter for the corporation will look and feel like,\u201d said Fatima Salaria, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/edinburgh-tv-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_edinburgh-tv-festival\" data-tag=\"edinburgh-tv-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edinburgh TV Festival<\/a> chair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe fact Matt has chosen Edinburgh for his first major industry appearance matters. We are delighted to welcome him for a conversation which will be lively, serious and central to the future of British television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrittin\u2019s first trip to Edinburgh comes in the festival\u2019s final year in the Scottish capital. It was recently revealed that Greater Manchester had won a bidding process to host the festival from 2027, bringing to an end a 50-year run in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Director General Matt Brittin will make his first major industry appearance at the final Edinburgh Television Festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,39792,96,175194,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-brittin","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678322","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=678322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}