Should YouTube Be Regulated?

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.

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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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