Program

EUROPEAN TELEVISION DIALOGUE November 20, 2008 Federal Foreign Office, Weltsaal

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8:30

Registration

9:45

Welcome
Reinhard Klimmt
Chairman European Television Dialogue

9:50

Keynote
State Secretary Dr. Peter Ammon

9:55

Welcome
Dr. Hans Hege
Director of the Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Media Authority, Berlin

10:00

Panel I
"18 years after the political change – has the TV-business in Poland and Czech Republic grown up?"

Keynote: Frank Mackenroth
Partner and CEO Competence Center for Entertainment, PricewaterhouseCoopers Deutschland

Host: Miodrag Soric
Head of the Central and Eastern European Editorial Department Deutsche Welle

  • Regional mapping
  • Independence of public television
  • Reasons for different levels of foreign investments in commercial television
  • Level of digitalization
  • Cultural distinctions in TV and the particular relationship with Germany

Panel Guests:
Ivo Mathé, Head of the Academy of Performing Arts Prag and former General Director of Czech Television
Krzystof Koehler, CEO TV Kultura
Petr Gottwald, Head of Program Scheduling of HBO Czech Republic
Krzysztof Surgowt, Managing Director Astra Poland

11:15

Coffee Break

11:30

Panel II
"Aesthetics and Television"

Keynote: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Director, Academy Award Winner

Host: Alexander van Dülmen
CEO A Company AG

  • Aesthetics of television / television as an art form (metaphorical language: CSI, Miami Vice, etc.)
  • Television as the mirror image of a nation / a society / different generations
  • How does the leading media influence education and taste – “Critique of the Power of Judgement”
  • The Commercial: The perfect program?
  • Aesthetics of the internet on the way into television?
  • Culture in television vs. television culture – rating-killer-debate

Panel Guests:
Stefan Ruzowitzky, Director, Academy Award Winner
Fritz Raff, Director ARD, Director Saarländischer Rundfunk
Matthias Matussek, Culture Department, Der Spiegel
Janis Kalejs, Producer, Director, Film Angels

12:45

Lunch

13:45

Keynote: "Visions of European Television"
Dr. Hans-Günther Brüske,
Chief Editor and Deputy Director, Saarländischer Rundfunk Germany

14:00

Panel III
"Music- and TV-Business"

Host: Milena Fessmann
Music Consultant, CINESONG, Berlin

  • In search of new synergies: Folk music, Popstars , Chart-Shows
  • Learning from the music business in the download-era
  • Digital Rights Management
  • Music-Download, Video-on-Demand, Streaming
  • Balance of power between the providers of technology and software

Panel Guests:
Helge Sasse, CEO Senator Entertainment AG
Wolfgang Brehm, Co-founder of the German entertanment law firm Brehm & v. Moers
Hartwig Masuch, Managing Director BMG Rights Management GmbH
Péter Radnai, TV 2, Hungary

15:15

Coffee Break

15:30

Panel IV
"The Caucasus Conflict in the mirror of the media"

Host und keynote speaker: Ulrich Deppendorf
Head of ARD-Hauptstadtstudio (ARD capital studio)
Editor in Chief TV-programme

  • Foreign reporting between crises and rate
  • The power of the pictures: War around pictures and heads
  • Censorship in the head and manipulation
  • War propaganda and reporting in the World Wide web

Panel Guests:
Sophie Kvintradze, Chief News Producer, News Department, Georgian Public Broadcasting
Alexey Nikolov, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Russia Today TV
Miodrag Soric, Head of the Central and Eastern European Editorial Department Deutsche Welle
Endre Aczél, Free-lance Journalist, Breakfast TV anchorman at Nap Television and political columnist Népszabadság
Stephan Stuchlik, Reporter and editor, ARD Studio Moscow
Maxim Shevchenko, Editorial department News, Channel One, Moscow

16:45

End of organized discussion



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