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Published: 16 February 2010

Wroclaw, Poland
26 - 29 May 2004

Wroclaw hosted the 22nd Circom Regional Conference, where TVP 3 invited representatives of about 300 regional television stations from all over Europe. During the Conference journalists had opportunity to participate in 10 day Television Journalism Workshop , and the jury of the Prix Circom awarded this year's best regional programmes.

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Conference agenda
Wroclaw 2004 booklet 

Report on regional public television in Europe, April 2004, RAI in cooperation with Circom Regional: summary full version 

ournalism Workshop 2004  

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Published: 16 February 2010

Rick Thompson, Conference Presenter:
Report on the Plenary Sessions of the 21st Circom Regional Annual Conference in Grado, Italy

The rain stopped and the sun came out just in time for the start of the Circom conference in Grado. The location was beautiful. The hospitality from RAI and the local authorities was superb. The attendance was high. The informal networking was continuous. The Coproductions workshops were usually full and active. The two-week training workshop was a big success. But the main business of the 21st annual conference happened in the Plenary Hall over three days of highquality presentations and intensive discussion.
One person attended every plenary session. That person was me, the Conference Presenter. So it was no surprise to be asked by Secretary- General Marija Nemcic to write this summary of the main sessions. A brief report cannot mention every speaker, or give much detail of the sophisticated presentations. And it is inevitably a personal selection of the most interesting contributions. So I hope others who attended the conference will not feel I have neglected anything very important.
The Opening Ceremony on Thursday May 22nd introduced this year’s conference theme of “Connecting”. This theme clearly worked well as a common thread running through the three days, giving a structure to the event, and emphasising the need to connect with regional communities and neighbour-professionals at a time of globalisation. Our Italian hosts gave delegates a particularly warm welcome to Grado, and Giacomo Santini, Vice-President of the European Parliament, made a strong plea for more informed television coverage of the EU over the next 12 months leading up to the next European Parliament elections, which will have an extra 10 countries taking part for the first time.
The conference itself then began with Benchmarking Regional Television in Europe, a presentation of the first draft of a unique survey into the state of our industry. Detailed questionnaires had been prepared by Circom and RAI; replies had been received from 20 member countries. These had been compiled and formatted by Loredana Cornero
from RAI Marketing, and were analysed by Professor Giuseppe Richeri. They showed quite large differences in public TV structures, programming and strategy. Some are loose federations. Others are much more centrally controlled. The move towards 100% digital transmission varies a great deal. For example, Germany is rolling out digital terrestrial transmission on a regional or local basis, so that Berlin has an early target-date for analogue switch-off, while other parts of the country will have no digital delivery in sight for many years. The survey will be completed in the coming months, and will be updated regularly, to become a dynamic resource for use by all Circom Regional members.
In this first session, the European Commission’s Director of Communications, Niels-Jorgen Thogersen, said that the continuing health and development of public television at the regional level was vital for Europe. According to the latest figures, 80% of Europeans now use television as their main source of news, and this percentage is rising. He drew the attention of the conference to a major Call For Proposals issued by the European Commission in the previous week, with up to 16 million Euros set aside for grants for TV and radio programmes about EU issues. He urged Circom to enter programme ideas, and assured non-EU members that the process would be flexible; he hoped to see accession countries and other non-EU countries included in the programme plans. He pointed out that the deadline for the first set of proposals- about Enlargement - had been set for the end of June, so time was short.
Connecting Experiences was the second session on the first morning. Different models of regional television were offered from the UK, France, Netherlands and Norway. The BBC’s Director of Nations and Regions, Pat Loughrey, gave the keynote address, with a passionate call for television which touches communities and individuals. He identified three worrying trends in European society - the fragmentation of society caused by social and religious changes in the past half-century - a growing poverty gap with the rich getting much richer and a growing proportion of poor people - and a digital divide, in which some people will be information rich and others information poor. He explained how the BBC had decided to invest more in local services, particularly with more local radio stations, and that it was trying to use interactivity to stimulate public access and debate at the very local level.
Marc Lesort from France 3 spoke of the difficulty of defining public service broadcasting. He said France 3 is fully committed to covering local culture, but politicians never seemed to be satisfied, not recognising that the audience wants good light-entertainment in their television diet, not just high-culture. He emphasised the value of the France 3 network of regional stations exchanging programmes, ideas and cultural experiences. Roel Dijkhuis from TV Noord took a rather different view, celebrating the complete autonomy enjoyed by regional stations in the Netherlands. “We focus on our own communities. We know them. They know us. It works”. From Norway, Grethe Haaland described the changes at NRK which have been forced by increasing competition and the need to cut costs. They have reduced the number of separate regional programmes, but increased the local presence. And NRK is keen to develop more multi-skilling as fast as possible.
Connecting the Content with Viewers was the title of the next session, with a series of sketches of the types of programming which can work well at local level. Contributions came from France, Italy, Netherlands, and Denmark. An unusual presentation was offered by Helen Thomas, head of the BBC Hull regional station in England. For the past 18 months, she had been conducting an experiment in extremely local TV, with maximum interactivity, such as video diaries from viewers. This was all TV-on-demand, delivered to a small community via broadband. Ms. Thomas said very local services were hugely popular, but the question remained on how to finance them in the long-term.
The theme of co-production, programme sharing and practical collaborations was investigated in the session called Connecting Broadcasters. Successful trans-frontier projects from France and Italy were explained, along with the well-established Balkan Magazine, Alpe-Adria, and Mediterranean projects organised by the CMCA. It was already clear that this 21st annual conference was seeing a dramatic resurgence in co-productions, after several years of low activity. Many ideas were being discussed, some of them stimulated by the European Commission and Parliament. For the rest of the conference, the coproduction workshop rooms seemed to be packed with people.
Coordinators Tim Johnson, Peter Saur and Valerie Joyeux reported that it was an exhausting series of discussions, but should prove to be a rewarding experience for participating stations. Clearly new life has been breathed into Circom Co-Productions.
The evening of the first day saw the Prix Circom presentations, with clips of 19 commended and winning programmes in the six award categories, and some elegant new trophies. The enjoyable ceremony was smoothly produced by Prix Circom President, David Lowen, who said though the the number of entries was down on2002, the quality of entries had been extremely high. It was the second time that the same TV channel had won both the “Grand Prix” awards. It had been Polish television both times, with TVP3 Poland picking up this year’s prizes
for best documentary and best news programme. He hoped that more countries would enter in 2004, when the judging would be hosted by TG4 in Ireland. He was already seeking a TV station to host the judges in 2005.
The following morning, conference delegates had the chance to find out how the six Prix Circom winning programmes had been made, in the session called Meet the Winners. This year it was a particularly interesting presentation. There were many energetic and witty ideas in the winning news programme from Poland, “Fakty Tydzien”. The winning documentary, Bobrek Dance, was revealed to be the result of long preparation which enabled the production team to become part of a deprived Polish community. The winning current affairs programme from BBC Northern Ireland had also been carefully prepared; its investigation into people-smuggling had been the result of a daring undercover operation using hidden cameras, which provoked a debate about when secret filming should be permitted. The editor of the winning cross-border programme, Euro3 from France 3 Nord, had been unable to persuade neighbouring countries to screen the programmes, but remained committed to a broader view of his own region. The team behind BBC Scotland’s special award team told how they had overcome a series of information barriers as they investigated the mysterious deaths of four young soldiers. In contrast, the most original programme,
from Omroep Flevoland in the Netherlands, was the result of very little planning, with the team sometimes knocking on doors at random to find human stories, such as the elderly lady who plays drums in her livingroom.
The second session on the second day, Connecting with Democracy, concerned one of the big issues facing every regional TV station in Europe - how to make politics interesting, without promoting colourful extremists or sensationalism? The subject produced a great deal of reaction, with animated discussions continuing over coffee well after the end of the formal session. The introduction used PowerPoints to give examples of academic research and recent elections to show that there is increasing apathy and cynicism about politics in many countries. Paul Cannon from the BBC explained that senior executives had recently completed a major study about their political coverage,
which had concluded that they must emphasise much more the impact of policies on ordinary lives, and that local politics must take centre-stage. “There are political producers and political consumers. We should give more time to the consumers at the point of delivery.” A new political TV show had been launched which integrated regional coverage. From Rotterdam, Cees van der Wel described the amazing political rise of the controversial and charismatic Pim Fortyn, who until his murder had attracted a huge following in the Netherlands by manipulating the media and being entertainingly radical. “I still can’t understand how it happened”, said Cees, who suggested that we must find ways of making mainstream politics more interesting to viewers. From B92 in Belgrade, correspondent Milorad Vesic reminded everyone how difficult it is to report politics in Serbia, where the Prime Minister had recently been assassinated. Journalists across South-East Europe found it very difficult to establish true information, in an atmosphere of cynical manipulation, concealment and even intimidation.
In the following plenary session, Connecting with Digital, moderator Gerry Reynolds introduced a number of case-studies showing different applications of the digital revolution. Some of the latest newsgathering techniques were illustrated by Steve Pearce from BBC News. He showed how store-and-forward internet transfers of high-quality
pictures had been used in Iraq. This system has potential applications for regional stations wishing to bring pictures into base without having to use expensive satellites. The expansion of national digital channels in Germany was described by Rolf Czernotzky from ARD, and contrasted with the very local service of TV2 Nord Denmark, explained by Bent Bjoern. RAI’s director of strategy, Luigi Rocchi gave an overview of the technical challenges facing digital transmission in Italy.
When the Big Story Breaks was a very interesting workshop session in the plenary hall, which reflected the large number of major events which have affected regional newsrooms in recent years. There were dramatic pictures from the firework factory explosion in Holland, the eruption of Mount Etna, the bombardment of Dubrovnik, and the huge
chemical factory explosion in France. The speakers agreed that every regional newsroom should have a plan for the big unexpected events, which usually occur at awkward times, often at weekends. Marcel Oudewesselink from RTV Oost Holland said, “The best thing the boss can do is leave the journalists to do their jobs, provide food, give staff
safety top priority, and plan the coverage for the next day”.
A parallel workshop considered The Challenge of EU Enlargement. Those who attended said it was very useful to be reminded of the significance of the expansion of the EU to 25 countries, and of the free TV facilities on offer from the European institutions. Kirsten Tingsted- Andersen made it clear that, in addition to the European Commission’s
grants, significant co-production funds would be available from the European Parliament during the build-up to the EP elections in June 2004. The EP audio-visual unit would expand its media-relations operations to cope with coverage of a much bigger parliament.
On the final day of the conference, Saturday 24th May, Connecting Communities with Global Events reminded delegates of the need for great sensitivity when reporting the divisions in local communities caused by such events as the Iraq war, the war against terrorism, and large-scale economic migration. There was a notable contribution from
Khurshid Ahmed, the Chairman of the British Commission for Racial Equality, who was generous about European television’s record, but suggested that special efforts should be made to reflect all parts of the TV audience in each locality, and that producers should really understand the religious and cultural differences in their own communities.
Before the closing ceremony, Young Circom was an opportunity for the participants in the Circom Journalism Workshop, which the Thomson Foundation had organised before and during the conference, to show delegates what they had been doing. A young journalist from Slovakia introduced a half-hour film made by the workshop team. It
contained a series of features about Grado and its surrounding area. These showed excellent television techniques, with well-composed sequences of shots, very good natural sound, many human examples, and interesting narrative structures, all presented in a second language, English, with style and imagination. On behalf of the trainees, Suzanna the presenter appealed directly to any bosses present to allow the young journalists to try such techniques when they returned to their home stations, and not to ignore or obstruct their fresh ideas!
As the conference closed with votes of thanks for all involved in the organisation, it was clear that Circom 2003 had been a big success. The facilities were good. The production team had been very helpful. There had been much more use of visual aids than in previous years, with more speakers using video-clips or PowerPoint for illustrations. A conference of TV professionals should use well-prepared visual aids; this year there was good progress in that direction. There had been some excellent speakers.
For the future, Circom might consider limiting the number of speakers on stage for each session. Some sessions had involved too many speakers, over-running the time, and preventing any meaningful interaction with the audience. Perhaps the plenary hall was a little too large. And some sessions were not well-attended as they were competing with a busy Co-production workshop. A reduction in the number of main sessions might be worth considering. But overall the 2003 conference has been one of Circom’s most enjoyable and interesting events. The feedback from delegates has been very positive.
The success of Grado will be hard to follow in 2004, when TVP3 in Poland will host the conference. The Director of TVP Wroclaw, Richard Novak, ended the conference by inviting delegates to his city in May next year, and showed a film about this vigorous international city, situated near the borders with Germany and the Czech Republic. It will
be particularly appropriate for the 22nd Circom conference to be in Poland, by far the largest of the 10 countries which will join the EU on May 1st 2004, ending two generations of division in the heart of Europe. And Circom will be meeting during the campaign for elections to the European Parliament, with the accession countries taking part for the first time.
In summary, it is clear that all who attended Circom 2003 can look back on the 3-day conference, the board meeting, the co-production workshops, the Prix Circom, the training workshop, and the informal networking during the wonderful social programme, and say that in Grado we were definitely "Connecting Successfully!"
RICK THOMPSON Director T-Media. Conference Presenter.

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Published: 16 February 2010

President Lefty Kongalides: Welcome speech to CR members

In the past two years while I had been addressing this audience in the annual CIRCOM Regional conference I repeatedly underlined the fact that this union is a part of a great family - a family that is getting bigger and bigger. And of course I was referring to the European Union, which just last month grew to 25 member nations. I cannot avoid speaking about this family - again, as CR is an offspring of the European Union - working within the EU, benefiting from generous funds for projects materializing through our chain of 380 stations in 38 countries of Europe and offering precious services informing / among other important issues / the citizens of Europe as a whole, what is the Enlargement, the real dimensions and advantages of being a member nation.
We are only 13 countries short before all the member countries of CR become some day in the future accepted in the European Union as equal partners. And I would like to remind to everyone here that CIRCOM Regional was a pioneer organization in accepting as members all the public stations in countries of the former Iron Curtain, even before the European Union did so.
So CR was looking into the future and predicting the future. This happened through the insight of great people who before us were Presidents, General Secretaries, Ex. Committee and European Board members of CIRCOM Regional. And I believe this is the right time and the right place to pay tribute to all these wonderful people, whose task we are now carrying on. Please join me and give them a big hand.
Now what is CR? CR is the voice of the regions and the regions of Europe is real Europe, the heart of the continent, where time has not erased customs, values, traditions, centuries old habits. And we feel forced to define this picture of CR because on the contrary with the capitals of the nations we represent the small, medium and bigger stations of CR which have always been and are the source, the tank of fresh, new talent and ideas. This is because, perhaps, the easier, stress-less way of living, that allows people in the regions to let their inspiration explode and talents are poached under ideal conditions.
I have repeatedly used in my speeches around Europe the great task of CR which is working together. As the family is getting bigger it is more and more important to find the codes, to find the ways of working together, understanding each other, communicating, sharing the experiences. Working together means that friendship, peace, and solidarity are enhanced in the region. Working together means exchanging programs at absolutely no cost. Working together means coproducing which you can also interpret as cutting in half or more pieces, the cost of producing.
And this is only the beginning. CR is here in between to help, to promote, to create the ambience for working together. All you have to do is take advantage. What’s the future for Television? What’s the future for CIRCOM Regional?
One can predict that we are in touch with the era when we will have 1000 channels in our disposition, specialization will be the key word and the satellite transmission will prove the cheaper, easier, better way of broadcasting than the terrestrial.
So the high cost for a TV station on a daily basis will be programming. This is where CIRCOM Regional has been a pioneer and is giving the good and, prudently, the right example.
­ First by exchanging programs
­ Second by coproducting
CR will go on promoting these two key issues in the European TV world while in the same time never cease offering training programs either for young journalists and producers, and for senior editors as well, or for technicians to get all the information they need for new technology. CR will also never cease play the role of carrying, through its vast number of TV stations, the messages needed by the community in which we live, that is the European Union, so that almost half a billion people are well informed about perspectives, achievements, and new balances in this continent. If we - at least most of the countries of Europe share the euro, we also have every right to share information and especially information for our present and the future. And CR member stations are here to help as a media force of unique vitality and strength and able to reach people and communities in the most remote corners of the European Continent.
Prix Circom
The Prix Circom jury members met this year in Sinaia, Romania, under the guidance of David Lowen. The event was hosted by TVR and Elena Spanily.
The 2004 jury meeting will be held in Ireland - according to the confirmation we had by TG4 Ireland and RTE. It is vital for our members that every year there are prizes for the best programs produced by our member stations. And we always had pleasant surprises with the results, especially with excellent programs produced with a very low budget.
Database
This year for the very first time CIRCOM Regional is completing the CR Database containing detailed up-to-date information about regional broadcasting across Europe. With the help of our national coordinators this was made possible.
Training
­ Last March we had the Technical Training conducted by Karol Cioma in London’s Pinewood Studios.
­ Also last March the TV Middle Management Course was held in Zagreb with HRT Croatia and the Thomson Foundation as hosts. The lead trainer was J. Philip Daves
­ The Ethnic Minorities Course took place in Budapest, earlier this month, with funding from the Council of Europe and organized locally by Judit Klein. The lead trainer was Arwel Ellis Owen
­ May 12-23 is the Annual Conference Journalism Training held this year here in Grado. The Council of Europe supports the activities this year again
­ Next November the Strasbourg News Management Workship, initiated by our former Deputy Secretary General Marie-Paule Urban, will again take place with local host France 3-Alsace
Two coproductions
Two major coprodutions are underway "The last straight line" Executive Producer is Peter Sauer of Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany and "Teenage Europe". Executive Producer is Tim Johnson of TV Syd- Denmark
Thanks
Before closing this speech, on behalf of all CIRCOM Regional members I would like to: Express our gratitude
to the Council of Europe and the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions and Europe by Satellite, and, of course, Avid for supporting CIRCOM Regional through the years.
I would also like to Congratulate and thank RAI for organizing so successfully this conference in a site which we will never forget. Isola di Grado will probably see many of us return for summer vacations. I would especially like to thank Pier Luigi Malesani and his hard working team who did everything possible to turn this con Bienvenuti a Grado And let me paraphrase a 1961 Italian hit song for the finale of this speech: 24.000 grazie

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CR Executive Committee/European Board Grado, May 21st, 2003

2003 - a very busy 1st half
• 80% of the yearly activities in the first half of the 2003
• More to come:
- Executive Committee, Liege, October 4
- Newsroom Management Seminar, Strasbourg, November 17-22
- Executive Committee, Wroclaw, November 28
- European Board, Wroclaw, November 29

Training - 4 done 1 to go
• AVID technicians training, London, March
• Middle management training, Zagreb, March
• Ethnic minority seminar, Budapest, April
• Annual Conference training, Grado, May
• Thanks to AVID, HRT, MTV and RAI for hosting them

Co-Productions - good kick off!
• 3 meetings of the Subcommittee on CoPros (Trieste, November 2002, Munich, January 2003 - Budapest, February 2003)
• Launch of the 2 big EU enlargement CoPros
- The New Teenage Europe
- The Last Straight Line
• First broadcast via EbS in April 2003
• CoPro Office in Munich to transfe r EbS coordination to CR Secretariat

Prix Circom - Sinaia, Romania
• 137 entries from 25 countries in 2003 compared to 164 entries from 22 countries in 2002
• Quality of regional programmes rising - David Lowen
• Committee of the Regions for the first time sponsoring Cross-Border
• Prix Circom trainee Piotr Czyzkowski from TVP3 Wroclaw won News Grand Prix
• Prix Circom trophies redesigned - to be presented for the first time in Grado
• TVR, Elena Spanily - thank you for hosting us

Annual Conference Grado
•Many participants - 180 + 35 in training
•Excellent list of speakers - lot of efforts invested by national coordinators and EC members
•RAI prepared a “Survey on regional broadcasting models” - 20 questionnaires returned from national coordinators
•Draft survey to be presented at the Conference
•RAI, Pier Luigi Malesani, Paolo Morawski - thank you for all the efforts invested in organising it

A brand new face of Circom
•Redesigned web site attracts double traffic
•New Circom web site to be launched during the Grado Conference
•Circom logo and presentations being redesigned
•2 issues of the SG Newsletter, along to monthly Circom Report
•More than 500 recipients of the Circom mailing list
•Four questionnaires (Membership, Training, Prix Circom, Euromusica) shed some new light on the old problems

Questionnaires - Conclusions
• Who answered?
- 28 national coordinators out of 38 (74%)
- Albania, Austira, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK
- Cyprus for the first time taking active part
- Not consistent all the time, but still useful
- Thanks to Branka for urging them all to send the questionnaires back to Secretariat

Questionnaires - Membership
• How important is the CR membership (1-5)?
- To you 4,57
- To your bosses 3,47
- To your colleagues 3,43
- To your network 3,19
• Why is the membership of such low interest?
- The bosses do not recognize it 5
- We do not broadcast any CR programme 4
- Too little benefit for membership paid 3
- It is badly promoted and publicized 2
• We do not get any information regarding

• Have you or your people participated in any CR activities in last five years?
- European Board 21 of 23
- Training 19 of 23
- Annual Conference 19 of 23
- Prix Circom 18 of 23
- Executive Committee 15 of 23
- Coproductions 13 of 23
- Euromusica 11 of 23
• Reasons for not being active
- Financial difficulties / travel expenses
- No interest shown by responsible persons
• What CR could do to improve or change this?
- Circom could adopt a clear mission statement, a signed undertaking from DG of member organizations. Identify barriers for members putting from other regions on their schedules

• Should CR accept independent producers and similar organizations as associate members?
- 10 Yes / 10 No
• Reasons for YES to independent producers:
- Because the contacts would be wider which means new ideas and options - more opportunities for co-productions and programmes
- Competition from private producers would only be good for coproductions. It would stimulate old CR member to work better. It would be “fresh blood” for CIRCOM
- They should be involved in cooperation under the condition that even they need to pay the membership
- In some countries independent producers could play important role in increasing values and professional standards of public
We should disseminate knowledge and open our schedules to citizens across Europe.
We should support and nurture people who share our goals

• How do you get information about CR activities?
- Circom Regional mailing list 20 of 23
- Circom Report 20 of 23
- Circom Regional web pages 19 of 23
- Annual Conference 18 of 23
- Europe by Satellite 3 of 23!!!!

Questionnaire - Training
• Have you heard of the CR Training? 22 of 23
• How important is the CR Training? (1-5)?
- To you 4,30
- To your colleagues 3,95
- To your network 3,63
- To your bosses 3,63
• Why is the CR training of such low interest?
- My station can not afford travel expenses
• Have you participated in any CR training in the last five years?
- Up to 5 different training so far 14
- More than 5 different training so far 5
- Never 1
• How do you assess the quality of CR training
- To your colleagues 4,26
• What kind of training did your people attend?
- AC training for Young Journalist 15
- Newsroom Management Seminar 15
- Middle management seminar 7
- Other circom trainings (when) 3
• Are these people still employed by your stations, if so on what positions?
- Most of them still working, some promoted
• Reasons for no participation:
- Financial difficulties / travel expenses 8
- No interest shown by responsible persons
- No interest from member stations 2
• What kind of training did your people attend?
- AC training for Young Journalist 15
- Newsroom Management Seminar 15
- Middle management seminar 7
- Other circom trainings (when) 3
• Are these people still employed by your stations, if so on what positions?
- Most of them still working, some promoted
• Reasons for no participation:
- Financial difficulties / travel expenses 8
- No interest shown by responsible persons
- No interest from member stations 2
• What CR could do improve or change this
- Financial help, better promotion
• What types of training would you like to see?
- New technologies, digital, not only journalists
• Should CR training be open to user-payer?
- 6 Yes 9 No
• If No state why?
- Need to explain the question in more detail, do not want to change existing training into user-payer

Questionnaire - Prix Circom
• Have you heard of the PRIX CIRCOM? 23 of 23
• How important is the PRIX (1-5)?
- to you 4,43
- to your colleagues 3,90
- to your bosses 3,41
- to your network 3,29
• Why is the PRIX of such low interest?
- It is badly promoted and publicized 3 answers
- It is just too mach effort to enter 2 answers
• Categories of the PRIX (1-5)
- Documentary 4,81
- News 4,53
- Current affairs 4,53
- Cross Border 4,33
- Arts 3,25
- Politics 3,15
- Children's 3,14
- Other 3,00
- Music 2,85
- Sport 2,54
- Drama 2,50
- Entertainment 2,29
- Comedy 2,08
•How and when should the award be given (1-5)?
- Ceremony at Circom conference 4,90
- TV programme for viewers 3,00
- Private ceremony for personals 2,00
•What should the prize be?
- Money award is important 4,26
- Money up to 5000 euros 3,94
- Money up to 10 000 euros 3,83
- Certificate to display 3,80
- Trophy of normal value 3,69
- Money up to 3000 euros 3,36
- Trophy if intrinsic value 2,92
- Honour is enough 2,50
•Who should receive and "own" the award (1-5)?
- Station decides 4,06
- Director 3,40
- Producer and director 3,36
- Station keeps 3,30
- Producer 3,00
- Individual keeps 3,00
•Should the winning programms be seen more widely (1-5)?
- Winners should be widely viewed 4,80
- Free for Circom stations 4,33
- Free only to station who enter 3,33
- Showing winners should be compulsory 2,64
- This commitment inhibits entries 2,13
- Free showing unrealistic 1,83
- No-one wants to show winner 1,40
• Did any of your stations broadcast Prix Circom 2002 Winners?
- Grand Prix Circom regional, News
1. Reporting Scotland 2
2. Objective 1
3. Central news at six 0
- Grand Prix Circom regional, Documentary
1. Dead silence 4
2. L'hopital de la plage 1
3. Voyage dens L'entre deux 1
- Current affairs
1. The smugglers 4
2. Stephen’s story 4
3. Life in Ribnovo 2
- Cross-border
1. Knowalski meets Schmidt 3
2. The last stitch 2
3. Catherine: the saint of two communities 3
- Special
1. Winner below sea level 1
2. The talents 2

•Have you heard of the CR Euromusica? 22 of 23
•How important is the Euromusica (1-5)?
- to you 3,05
- to your network 2,55
•Has your station participated in Euromusica?
- Yes - 13 of 23
•If Yes how many times
- Up to 4 times 11
- More than 5 times 2
•Have you aired Euromusica 2002?
- Yes - 6 of 23
•By what means have you recorded Euromusica 2002?
- Tape delivered by ERT 5
- Tape delivered by Circom Secretariat 2
- Satellite EBU 1
- Satellite EbS 0
•Do you plan to participate in Euromusica 2003?
- Yes - 10 of 23
•Why is the Euromusica of such low interest?
- This is no adequate programe for my station 10
- My station can not afford travel expenses 5
- It should be of a better quality 5
- It is badly promoted and publicized 4

Application of the CR Activity report
• Approach the members that have not been very active within CR so far
• Evaluate the messages from questionnaires to improve the existing projects and activities, make a move towards new ones
• Evaluate the use and scheduling of EbS slot

Last, but not least!
• Extra funding - where and how?
• New EU projects to be developed - tenders recently published
• Strengthen the public awareness of CIRCOM Regional (PR)
• Strengthen the very good participation of new DSG Hubert Schilling