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In memory of Peter Zimmermann
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Peter Zimmermann, one of the first General Secretaries of CIRCOM Regional, died on 5th September 2007.
We share in the grief of his wife and family. We send them the condolences of the whole CIRCOM Family.
Peter Zimmermann was in CIRCOM since its very beginning. And after he retired his great experience and knowledge was a strong support to the Colleagues. Peter was the Individual Member of the European Board till the end. CIRCOM Family lost with him a kind of father.
During his work as Secretary General of CIRCOM Regional his aim was to meet the members by himself all the time. He loved the direct contact with his TV-colleagues all over Europe and he personally brought the European spirit to all public TV-Stations in Europe. He was the main engine behind the Association. And it was his success that most of the members joined CIRCOM after his influence. One of the projects he was focused on was the Co-productions. And he worked very hard to build up the Co-production network. Till his last Annual Conference, he watched the ongoing process in Co-Pro-Workshop and he took care that it would continue. He was the initiator for one of the CIRCOM pillars – the Training. He built up the first CIRCOM Training.
For the 25th Anniversary of CIRCOM it was his personal wish to prepare the History of the Association. He finished writing his memories few weeks ago and now it will become his Memories.
During the last phone conversation the Secretary General had with him, he said: “I have been part of CIRCOM for 25 years and I’m 75 years of age – I think it’s time to finish this work. I think Bilbao was my last Conference”. Nobody expected this to be true.
With Peter Zimmermann we loose the great European, the good Journalist, and our most important Consultant. CIRCOM has lost the Father, but as it is in a good family, the spirit of Father will remain.
Peter Sauer
Secretary General
CIRCOM Regional
September 2007
Anne-Margarete Wachtmeister
Head of Audiovisual Service
European Parliament
These news makes me very sad,
A great man, so kind.
I know well years ago, at Circom, and I was so lucky to meet him again in my function here at the European Parliament.
Most lately we met in Bilbao where he seemed to be in great shape. We had several nice talks both about the past and the future. He was so enthusiastic, and rightly so, about the excellent platform the Circom organization has carved out for itself in an ever changing media landscape.
Please give my warmest regards to the closest concerned among Circom colleagues and also to the family if you or someone else is in contact with them.
Anne-Margrete
CR President at the premises of Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich
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Monday, 26th of February, 2007
On invitation of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Anita Bhalla, our CR President was in Munich on Monday, February 26th. As Head of Political and Community Affairs, she presented BBC – English Regions in Birmingham. More than 40 journalists, editors, producers and programme makers of the television center in Munich attended the presentation in the big conference room of the Bavarian Television.
The topics were :
1. Structure of the regional programming of the BBC
2. Tripleplay – coordination between internet, radio and television
3. Pilotproject – local tv
4. Videonation
5. User generated content
Mrs. Bhalla stressed on the position of the BBC towards the public in the so-called “Charter review” and especially on the public values in its different ways (democratic, cultural, educational and social). This topic araised a great interest among the Bavarian colleagues. Examples about active and informed citizenship were shown too.
Further aspects were also mentioned like the building of a digital UK or how to measure performance.
The presentation was followed by a 30-minute-discussion. Citizen journalism in general and video journalism were some of the topics debated on.
More about this meeting you will be informed by the next "Newsletter" by the end of March.
Changeover in the General Secretary
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After five years of successful work in Circom Regional, Marija Nemcic, HRT Croatia, has left the post of CR Secretary General.
On 10th/11th November 2006 in Bilbao she conducted the Executive Committee and European Board meeting for the last time.
Marija is succeeded immediately by Peter Sauer, BR Germany.
- New Executive-Committee
During the same meeting, the European Board elected four members to the Executive-Committee : Antonella Madonna - RAI Italy, Antonio Ribeiro - RTP Portugal, Zoran Medved - RTV Slovenija and Pawel Dudek -TVP Poland. Together with Roul Dijkhuis - RTV Noord Netherlands and Michael Lally - RTE Ireland they form the new EC.
Also the Internal Auditors have changed. Tim Johnson, TV Syd Denmark and Michael Lally, RTE Ireland are now the CR Auditor-Team.
Changeover from EbS to database
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The use of EbS had been cancelled by Circom at the end of the year.
From January 2007 the programme exchange will be exclusively carried out via our DATABASE.
Every National Coordinator has already received a password in order to download films. Further passwords can be demanded online.
If you have any problems, please contact the General Secretariat.
Circom Briefing in Brussels, 2006
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9th - 12th October 2006
Circom-Regional celebrates the "Second Circom-Briefing" in 2006.
Participants from sixteen different countries took part in the four day long Open Days.
Eleven workshops and discussions were organised with the support of the "Committee of the Regions". 38 Circom Colleagues members and 13 Journalists from Circom-Stations were registered for the briefing.
The workshops participants included Mr. Delebarre, President of CoR, Mr. Barnier former Foreign Minister of France, Members of the Cabinet from Javier Solana, his Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process and the Spokesperson for the EU High representative for CFSP. As well as Representatives of the different EU Institutions. All participants attended the midday briefing by Commissioner Hübner.
For the first time a work shop called "Best of Prix Circom" was held. Mr. Walter, a German trainer of TV, presented an analysis of the Prix entries. This workshop looked at examples of entries and examined the components which make successful programmes.
(A DVD for all Circom-Members will be presented during the meetings in Bilbao in November)
Beside the Circom-Briefing, the CoR also provided a TV-Studio placed near the Investors-Café, this was available to all journalists free off charge. The service included the use of four camera-crews and editing-suites. Circom-Reginal supported the initiative by providing Standby- Journalists" for stations who could not send a Journalist to Brussels.
During the Open Days we produced more than three hours of transmitted programming.
During the debriefing all of the Circom-participants agreed that it was an effective, important and fruitful presentation and expressed a desire to provide a 3rd Circom-Briefing in 2007.
The content of this will be discussed at a future Circom Board-meeting.
Statement of Anita Bhalla – President of CR
