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9th EBU Television Assembly
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Amsterdam 10-11 April,
2003 The TV Assembly is being held in Amsterdam
on 10 and 11 April 2003. Programme On Thursday 10 April, Bob Collins (RTE), Chairman of the TV
Committee, along with Harm Bruins Slot, Chairman of NPB and Jean
Stock, Secretary General of the EBU, will open the meeting. The lecture of honour will be made by the Director General of a
Member who has delivered an outstanding performance in television
during 2002. The subject of this year's lecture
is "The current competition situation in European TV
and how we have managed to succeed." A live game show moderated by Philip Freriks, news presenter at
NOS, will be used to look at the problems and dilemmas of working
in television: how to handle political pressure, how to resolve
major staff problems, how to tackle the written press, how to
handle personal relations and the professional obligations,
etc. The last session, chaired by Bob Collins, will deal with
management issues. Short videos have been produced and the
directors-general of SVT (Sweden), Channel 1 (Russian Federation),
LTV (Latvia) and RTVE (Spain) will play a truth game and give their
opinions on the video situations presented to them. This session
will help to shape an image of the public service remit for the
next decade. The TV Assembly will also be distinguished by a number of
parallel workshops: | | • | Impartiality: this workshop
focuses on the difficulties of public service broadcasters in
maintaining impartiality, especially in their reporting of news and
current affairs. The speakers are Keith Graves, long-serving BBC
correspondent and correspondent for Sky News, Jamie Shea, head of
media relations for NATO, and the moderator Sarah Yuen, EBU
executive producer. | | | • | Should online departments be
closed? Until April 2000 new media departments could not
be built fast enough nor big enough. Three years later it is time
to reassess the role of the new media offer with the portfolio of a
public broadcaster. Moderated by Max Johns, EBU executive producer,
speakers that will take stock of this are Michel Mol, head of
Online NPB, Torben Eriksen, head of new media at DR, and Jacques
Bughin, partner at McKinsey. | | | • | Launching a major drama
event: in 2002, Band of Brothers won
an Emmy in the USA. The workshop will look at how it was promoted
by two large national broadcasters and how the channels maintained
their own brand image with this worldwide programme. The discussion
will be chaired by Katharina von Flotow, EBU executive producer,
and the speakers are: Nigel Cole, business director at BBC
Broadcast, Jo Broadhead, senior media planner of BBC Broadcast, and
Stephen Harlé, artistic director of France 2's Presentation
Department. |
The conclusions of each workshop will be presented at the
plenary session by Marija Nemcic. The first part of the meeting on Friday 11 April is
devoted to the EBU Television Department, its strategy, and
Members' science programmes. | | • | Has the TV Department performed according
to the business plan 2002–05? The report will be
presented by Bjørn Erichsen, TV Director at the EBU. | | | • | The final discussion will take place in the
afternoon. What are the strategies, objectives and
targets for the business plan 2003–06? Presentation
by Frank Dieter Freiling, Chairman of the BP Advisory Group. | | | • | "Proud to present". The theme
"How to make science popular on TV?" will be illustrated by eight
successful science programmes from ARD/WDR, BBC, RAI, TVE, UR, VRT,
France 3 and SRG/SSR. Speakers include: Daniele Jörg
(ARD/WDR), Steve Hocking (BBC), Jean-Noël Dibie (France 3), Stas
Gawronski (RAI), Helen Rundgren (UR), Frank Symoens (VRT). This
session will be chaired by Ruurd Bierman. |
The meeting of the TV Assembly will conclude with the election
for a new TV Committee for 2003–05.
© EBU 2005
Latest update 08.11.2005
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