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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