Arne Wessberg had talks in Tokyo on Monday 14 April with Katsuji
Ebisawa, President of NHK (one of the EBU's most important
Associate Members) and of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
(ABU), the largest and most active of the EBU's sister unions.
Mr Wessberg thanked Mr Ebisawa for the
close collaboration of both the ABU and NHK in recent years, and
looked forward to even closer cooperationin the future -
operationally, in co-productions and on the World Electronic Media
Forum (WEMF). A side-event to the World Summit on the
Information Society, the WEMF will be organized in Geneva by the
EBU, the United Nations and Switzerland in December 2003.
The two men agreed on the key role that
would be played by the traditional media of radio and television as
creators of content in the information society. "No
technology blossoms without something to deliver,"
Mr Wessberg said.
Mr Wessberg visited the NHK Science and
Technical Laboratories, where he was shown prototypes of
ultra-high-definition television and flexible television screens,
and met a wide range of NHK staff already involved in work with the
EBU.
