Circom Report CIRCOM Regional NewsmonthlyzCR is the European Association of 380 Public Regional TV Stations in 38 countriesz Nov. 2003/No 49 The new CR President It’s election time in CIRCOM Regional for a new President and members of the By Lefty Kongalides Executive Committee. And during the past CR President months I have been repeatedly asked “who do you think is the best candidate?”. backing of a well known and respected TV Up to this moment I do not know the organization, necessarily from a member – candidates and I can not really say who is country of the European Union. her children will inherit is in good the best, but I certainly have some ideas He / she should speak at least fluently hands and will prosper even more. about the personality of the candidate who English and French, be communicative and a So anyone could be a candidate but will carry on the duties of the President. good listener. A person who combines the hopefully someone who can lead this First of all he / she has to be a very skills of a diplomat and the experience of a association to the future for higher experienced TV executive who has veteran TV executive. achievements and better services to the managerial skills and knows the way a TV The outgoing President has the feelings of member-stations and the public as station is run. He / she should have the a parent who wishes that the business his / well. CR elections for new President and Executive Committee members During the European Board meeting in Wroclaw, for tasks allocated by the Executive Committee. Poland, Nov. 30, the election for the President and the Each member of the EC shall be allocated members of the Executive Committee will take place. responsibility for a specific field of activity. The election procedure shall The fields of activity are: be as follows, determined by the The CIRCOM Report Finances, Annual Conference, Statute: Training, Coproductions, Prix 1) Each candidate must be in fifth year Circom, EBS, PR & Sponsors. nominated by a National of publication Therefore you are kindly asked Coordinator and seconded by to select two fields in which the With the issue of October, the CIRCOM two others. National Report celebrated 48 weeks of continuous applicant’s work will be useful Coordinators may exercise their publication, that is four years altogether. for CR. right either to nominate or to Quite a feat, taking under consideration In the current EC, the second, but not both, and may do that this 8page newsletter has never failed to membership expires for four th so for only one candidate. be in the CR members’ e-mail by the 15 of National Coordinators 2) Nominations must be each month and, at the same time, at an (E. Spanily, P. Couchard, Z. submitted in writing to the absolutely no cost for the 380 stations Medved, J. Klein). subscribing to this association. Secretary General. With this issue CIRCOM Report is starting There is also the possibility for 3) Each candidate shall provide its fifth year of publication, always prepared, the extension of the mandate for official approval in writing from planned and edited in Thessaloniki, Greece J. Klein for a year. his organisation enabling by ERT3. him/her to take the responsibility 2 SEEMO award Russian TV planning for Sarayevo’s Kemal Kurspahic pre - recorded debates 2003 "Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South Russian television channels, including state-owned RTR and state-controlled East Europe" awarded to Kemal Kurspahic, ORT, are planning to broadcast pre-recorded election debates, websites former editor-in-chief of Sarajevo daily gazeta.ru and grani.ru reported. Oslobodjenje. Television host and Russian The South East Europe Media Television Academy President Organisation (SEEMO) and its Vladimir Pozner told newspaper, Ekho international jury have chosen Kemal Moskvy, that recorded debates are a Kurspahic, the former editor-in-chief of Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje, as the "farce", arguing that viewers will lose the acuteness and spontaneity of the recipient of the 2003 "Dr. Erhard Busek - events. SEEMO Award for Better Understanding Commenting on recent legislation to in South East Europe", in recognition of regulate media coverage of elections, his outstanding efforts in journalism, which Mr Pozner said: "If this is a sincere have contributed toward a better understanding in South Eastern Europe. attempt to combat 'black public relations,' then one can only be amazed Born on 1 December 1946, Kemal by its stupidity. Kurspahic, was editor-in-chief of Sarajevo However, I think the move [was] not daily Oslobodjenje from December 1988 that naive, and had other motivations." until March 1994. Yelena Dubrovina, Mr Yabloko's In the first year of his editorship Oslobodjenje was named "The Paper of the representative on the Central Election Commission, said that recorded debates Year in former Yugoslavia in 1989" and are simply a logical continuation of the Disregard for safety given "The Paper of the Year in the World" Kremlin policy of "managed award in 1992. democracy," the website polit.ru of reporters during Kurspahic made journalistic history by reported. the war in Iraq publishing Oslobodjenje every day in the ruins of the paper's offices during the siege Sky to launch massive Media unions have accused the US of Sarajevo and the war in Bosnia- authorities in Iraq of handling cases Hercegovina (from April 1992). digital campaign where journalists were killed or missing He has already received numerous in the war with "secrecy, deceit and awards including, The Courage in BSkyB is to spend £20m (about 28.6m arrogance". The International Federation Journalism Award 1992, the World Press euros) on boosting growth in its digital of Journalists (IFJ) said in a report that Review's International Editor of the Year video recorder and is placing the Sky+ in 1993, the Bruno Kreisky Award for there was "flagrant disregard" for the product at the centre of its marketing safety of reporters during the war in Iraq Human Rights in 1993 and the strategy. The mass campaign promotes this spring, following the deaths of four International Press Institute's World Press the technology outside of Sky's customer journalists who were killed or missing, Freedom Hero in 2000. base for the first time. TV slots across presumed dead. An ITN crew was shot A noted writer, Kurspahic is the author terrestrial channels will bring together at on March 22 in Basra, killing reporter of four books: "couples", including Bruce Forsyth and Terry Lloyd. Two of his crew are still As Long as Sarajevo Exists, Letters from Kelly Brook, Noddy Holder and Simon the War, The White House and Prime Time missing presumed dead. On April 8 the Callow and Ronnie Corbett and Alice Palestine Hotel in Baghdad was attacked Crime (this book was also published by Cooper, who are shown living together by US forces, killing two cameramen. SEEMO and the Media Center Sarajevo in and debating what to watch on The same day, the US also bombed the the Bosnian language under the title: television. The execution ends with the Baghdad office of the al-Jazeera Zlocin u 19:30). tagline, "Sky+, Create your own TV television channel, killing another He is currently a spokesperson for the channel. "The campaign will also reporter. US troops shot a Reuters United Nations Office for Drug Control include a sponsorship of Virgin's cameraman on August 17 near a prison and Crime Prevention in Vienna. breakfast show. Jon Florsheim, BSkyB's The "Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO Award in Baghdad. The IFJ report said the US managing director of sales, marketing for Better Understanding" is sponsored by was "hiding results of its investigations, and interactive, said "Sky+ is a fantastic evading responsibility and ignoring Dr. Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator of campaign that transforms television challenges of their version of events". the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe viewing. With our biggest campaign "It is shocking that after six months the and Chairman of the Institute for the since the launch of Sky Digital, we aim families, friends and colleagues of the Danube Region and Central Europe. to communicate its benefits to the mass victims still await credible explanations Last year this award was received by the market for the first time and ensure that about how and why they died," said IFJ Croatian journalist Denis Latin. BSkyB remains the brand leader in president Christopher Warren. digital television." 3 Archive material China urged by R. Murdoch will be shared to let media flourish by APTN & ABC Video news agency APTN and Australian broadcaster ABC have joined together to share to rival the US and Britain archive material. The two organisations will share archive Media mogul Rupert Murdoch appealed to China's leaders, saying that the country material in their libraries on a range of subjects including Australian wildlife, locations, social could become a centre for the industry to rival the United States and Britain. history, terrorism, international conflicts, "The potential of the open market doesn't represent any loss of power," Mr Murdoch celebrities and bizarre events. said, in a speech at the communist party school according to a text released by his APTN will act as non-exclusive agents for company, News Corp. It said his audience included Vice President Zeng Qinghong, ABC's material in Europe, while ABC will Cabinet ministers and other senior officials. reciprocate in Australia and South East Asia. China has some of the world's tightest media controls. Broadcasters and newspapers The two already share international feeds, which are state-owned and supervised by propaganda officials and foreign media companies gives them both more comprehensive news feeds.