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Digital News Affairs conference
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Adapting to the challenges of the digital revolution
The news and media world is under assault as never before
Some of the most creative people of the media business met for two days, March 4th and 5th 2009, in Brussels, at the “Digital News Affairs” conference. The “DNA” is attented by Circom Regional General Secretary, Peter Sauer. His report after the first day starts with: “During this conference I always hear three phrases: “Budget cuts, social networks and merged newsrooms”.
New Ideas, new structures are needed to deal with the decreasing budgets in the whole media world. Everybody, who is reporting during DNA tells the audience, that we have to focus on are journalistic abilities, while using technological development to reduce the amount of money which has to be spent.
All experts during this conference say, that each media company should use each possible channel to deliver his journalistic content. This fits to the new Circom Regional strategy. During the annual conference the executive committee will propose to change the statutes of our organisation. It should be open not only for regional public television stations. It should be open also for the online and radio departements of our members.
One remarkable aspect of the DNA: The VJ award run by this conference was won by a newspaper VJ for the first time. The winner works for the Wasington Post. Her VJ piece makes clear, we as TV people don´t have the exclusive monopole to deliver top level quality for ever. We must take care of the new competition coming from the site of the newspapers in the web.
Finaly the DNA conference ensures me as the Secretary General of Circom Regional, that we are preparing an interesting annual conference in Groningen, which will deliver a lot of answers for the problems we all have to face.
The BBC is quite selfconfident. Pat Laughrey, head of BBC regions and nations,answered the question what happens if lokal newspapers do not survive the economical crises.
He thinks the BBC could take over their job as well.
Michael Rosenblum's first visit in Europe was in occasion of the Circom Annual Conference in Kosice. Many TV-Stations in Germany, HR in particular were influenced by his Circom-Workshops.
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CIRCOM deeply concerned at bombing incident in Bilbao
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"My thoughts and I am sure the thoughts of all of our colleagues in CIRCOM are with you at this difficult time. An attack on the media like this is an attack on democracy itself. Let us hope and pray that the year ahead will bring peace and understanding to all troubled lands and that people like you and your good colleagues can work without fear or intimidation. Please extend my good wishes and deepest concern to all our dear friends who made us so welcome in your wonderful city. Thinking of you at this difficult time.
Beir Beannacht
Michael Lally
President CIRCOM Regional
CR at the 9th Digital Broadcasting Workshop
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The Workshop „Digital Broadcasting“ that took place on September 18th and 19th, 2008 in Erlangen, Germany dealt with the newest developments in the field of Digital Broadcasting. The Workshop provided a forum for experts from research institutes, universities, industry, network providers and radio stations to exchange the new ideas, developments and applications in the area of Digital Broadcasting.
In this connection Andres Eben and Tobias Hellmuth from CIRCOM Regional attended the Workshop to present their paper “Mobile TV – Development, adaptation and broadcast of regional mobile content” in line with a corresponding poster session.
The paper presents guidelines for Mobile TV content creators. A modified workflow which optimizes the production process and reflects the special character of Mobile TV content is outlined.
In addition the Workshop attendants could experience Mobile TV during the event. The content related to the Digital Broadcasting Workshop was specially generated and transmitted live via DVB-H. The reception was realized with Nokia N77 devices.
Get more information about the workshop on http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/veranst/wsdb/index.jsp
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CIRCOM Regional Conference awarded as best educational programme
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Diploma of Erasmus EuroMedia Seal of Approval has been awarded to Circom-Regional for the educational multimedia product of the Circom 2008 Annual Conference. It was handed over to Zoran Medved, TV Slovenia, as the host of the Annual Conference.
Zoran Medved himself presented this Certificate to Anita Bhalla, former President of Circom Regional. The certificate was awarded by ESEC, European Soiety for Education and Communication e.V.
The Judges pointed out: “we have chosen a rather general expression for your prize winning product, declaring it as a media product to be used for the general educational discourse towards Europe (“educational multimedia product”).
Diploma of Erasmus EuroMedia Seal of Approval
Anita Bhalla and Zoran Medved
PHAROS presented at the ICT Event 2008 in Lyon
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The ICT Event is Europe´s biggest research event for information and communication technologies and is organisied by the European Commission. The ICT takes place from 25th until 27th November and accomplishes researchers and innovators, policy and business decision-makers working in the field of digital technologies.
A main theme examined in ICT 2008 is “Future Internet”. In this connction “PHAROS Project” is presented at the ICT. PHAROS (Platform for SearcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces) is an integrated project co-financed by the European Union under the Information Society Technologies Programme (6th Framework Programme).
PHAROS aims to advance audiovisual search from a point-solution search engine paradigm to an integrated search platform paradigm. This platform will be built on an innovative, open and distributed architecture that enables consumers, businesses and organisations to unlock the value of audiovisual content.
CIRCOM Regional is part of the “PHAROS Consortium” as well and is responsible for the content acquisition and provision behalf the PHAROS showcase. Moreover CIRCOM Regional as an association of professional broadcasters all over Europe operates with user testing and validation issues in order to promote PHAROS within a practical approach.
Get more information on: http://www.pharos-audiovisual-search.eu/
Interest in Pharos
Discussion, Pharos consortium
Pharos stand
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Pharos platform
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