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Changing Radio for a Changing Culture

The 9th Radio Assembly will be held in Frankfurt on 3 and 4 April 2003.

On Thursday 3 April, Helmut Reitze, intendant of Hessischer Rundfunk (ARD/HR), will deliver the welcoming address to the Assembly chaired by Nicholas Kenyon, BBC.

Three subjects will be covered:

news coverage of the terrorist attacks, Sergei Kurokhtin, RDO;
the conclusions of a study conducted by the EBU's Strategic Information Service, presented by Stanislaw Jedrzejewski (PR), Graham Dixon (BBC) and Penelope Rudd (EBU);
important radio events in 2003:
 
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RNE Rencontre (8 and 9 May);
DAB content workshop (28 May);
Pan-European day of culture on radio (12 October).

Following on, the professional debates will address the main theme of  "Culture on Radio Revisited: challenges, audiences, new demands":

The debate "Changing Radio for a Changing Culture", chaired by Nicholas Kenyon, will be opened by Heinz-Dieter Sommer (ARD/HR) and Michael Tracey, director of the Center for Mass Media Research at the University of Colorado (USA);
Ann Sandelin (YLE), will lead the discussion on "Changing Cultural Content – the Challenges". The main speakers will be Roger Wright (BBC), Svetlana Dimitrova (BNR), Solveig Mattsson (YLE) and Jan Westerhof (NPB).

On Friday 4 April the first session will be chaired by Vlado Senica (RTVSLO):

"Reflecting the Culture of New Audiences", with the participation of François Desnoyers (Radio France), Angiolino Lonardi (RAI), Gérard Tschoppp (SSR) and Lukas Hurnik (CR).

Bernd Peter Arnod (ARD/HR) will officiate as chairman for the last debate:

"Communication Culture on All Platforms". Speakers include Walter Couvreur (VRT), Leif Lønsmann (DR), Josep M. Marti (SER), Marie Wennerten and Karolina Gerdin (SR).



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