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

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8:30

Registration

9:45

Words of Welcome
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal Foreign Minister, Germany
Reinhard Klimmt, Chairman European Television Dialogue

10:00

Panel I
"Music- and TV-Business"

  • 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

11:15

Coffee Break

11:30

Panel II
"Aesthetics and Television"

  • 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

12:45

Lunch

13:45

Keynote: "Visions of European Television"

14:00

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

  • 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

15:15

Coffee Break

15:30

Panel IV
"Television in the Mediterranean region"

  • Regional mapping
  • East-West divide at the viewing habits vs. North-South divide?
  • Cultural overspill
  • Interaction with minorities / religion on TV – catholicizm and islam
  • EBU - a model for Sarkozy’s Mediterranean Union?
  • North Africa as „new Eastern Europe“?
  • The EU’s positioning, the leading media’s reactions?

16:45

End of organized discussion



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