Graham Lovelace, Director, Lovelace Consulting

Lovelace Consulting operates at the intersection of traditional broadcast media with the internet and telecoms, providing a broad range of insightful services (including bespoke research and intelligence, reports and strategic advice) that guide organisations through the convergence maze.

Graham Lovelace has worked in digital and interactive media for the past two decades:
•    A former print and broadcast news journalist, Graham was a senior member of the team that founded Teletext Limited in 1992. As Editorial Director he was responsible for all editorial content and pioneered the expansion of services to internet and interactive digital television platforms.
•    Since 1999 Graham has been advising companies as a consultant, and providing business intelligence services, initially as Lovelacemedia Limited (a business sold to The Press Association in 2004) and, since 2005, as Lovelace Consulting Limited.

Business intelligence clients have included:
•    Every major UK broadcaster
•    Leading UK newspaper publishers, internet portals, telecoms groups
•    Several leading marketing and PR services
•    Several leading international law firms, accounting and financial services firms and consulting groups
•    UK regulators and government advisors.

Current consulting clients include:
•    The Digital Television Group, the digital TV trade association and standards body. Lovelace Consulting managed the UK’s first industry consultation on 3DTV and we continue to provide strategic management advice to the DTG.
•    BSkyB: Lovelace Consulting produced a major industry event, Introducing Sky3D, for Sky, BAFTA and the UK Film Council in February 2010. We continue to provide research services to Sky.
•    Digital UK, the body coordinating the UK’s digital TV switchover. Lovelace Consulting produces Get Set, the quarterly printed public affairs newsletter for Digital UK.
•    Harvest Media Group, the leading provider of interactive media services to broadcasting brands such as The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, American Idol and Indian Idol.

Past consulting clients in the interactive television sphere have included cable group NTL (now Virgin Media), ITN and Channel 4. Prior to the acquisition of Lovelacemedia, Graham led a strategic evaluation of The Press Association’s broadcasting strategy.

In 2005 Graham co-authored an influential book on IPTV (IPTV: Broadband Meets Broadcast – The Network Television Revolution, ISBN 1905360002, published by informitv.com in 2005 and updated as the IPTV Guide – Delivering Audio And Video Over Broadband, ISBN 1905360126, in 2006).