The foundation provides a one year program of education and development designed to fast-track their understanding of the global television content business.
This includes subscriptions to a number of trade publications and organisations and all-access passes to the world’s leading content industry events.
Applications can come from individuals, or a sponsor and should demonstrate why each young executive would most benefit from a scholarship.
We aim to reward the most creative applicants and support those who best demonstrate a passion and flare to make a difference in the business. Our aim is to offer support to the next generation of rising stars and get their feedback about how the business might develop, in return.
The successful applicants will be able to demonstrate:
A genuine passion for the content business.
A desire to innovate and entertain.
The ability to set an example and inspire others.
A hunger to learn and grow.
The desire to make a difference.
The scholarship includes the following from David Lyle Foundation Partners:
Broadcast provides the following to each scholarship winner:
An annual subscription to the weekly Broadcast magazine and Broadcastnow.co.uk and premium data service The Commissioner Index, which provides database information on more than 400 commissioners in the UK and US and nearly 15,000 programmes.
Broadcast will also provide a one-hour session with a key member of its team to help with any questions each scholarship winner may have.
2 x full registrations to NATPE Budapest 2025
NATPE Budapest is Central and Eastern Europe’s most established and trusted content marketplace.
2 x full registrations to NATPE Global 2025
NATPE Global is North America’s one-stop content marketplace, bringing together buyers across global streamers, device manufacturers, FAST Channels, MVPDs, linear and broadcast networks and sellers from the major U.S. studios, super-indie, boutique and independent distributors and producers.
PACT provides the following to each scholarship winner:
Access to all Pact member only events which include legal, copyright, international and domestic market briefings etc . We will need to verify them on our system so they will receive the invites. These are exclusive events and are often hosted by leading UK and international TV executives and attended by leading UK independent producers so great networking opportunity as well.
2 X full registrations to Realscreen Summit 2025
The Realscreen Summit is the pre-eminent global conference and marketplace for the business of non-fiction and unscripted screen content
Reed Midem provides the following to each scholarship winner:
A full pass for MIPTV, the international market for content development and distribution and for MIPCOM, the world’s entertainment content market. These two-world class events take place in Cannes, one in April, the other, in October. Each registration comes with an access to the biggest online database of entertainment professionals.
TBI provides the following to each scholarship winner:
• One annual subscription to print issues of TBI Magazine
• One ticket to TBI’s Content Innovation Awards at MIPCOM and/or one ticket to Digital TV Europe’s VideoTech Innovation Awards in London
• One full day at TBI offices with one-to-one sessions with the editorial team
• One-page column in an issue of TBI