Intermag General Assembly

Helsinki

May, 11/12, 2001

 

 

Proposed Minutes

 

  1. Welcome by YLE
    2.

    Mr. Ari Järvinen, Head of News and Current Affairs welcomed the INTERMAG participants and pointed out the importance of an association going against the mainstream of commercialisation in today’s media landscape.

     

  2. Opening of the General Assymbly
    3.

    Mariolina Bronzini (RAI), INTERMAG President, welcomed the participants and thanked YLE for the invitation and an impeccable organisation.

     

  3. Approval of the "Proposed Minutes" of the Annual Meeting Cologne, March 2000

    4.  

  4. Relocation of Co-ordination Centre

    5. At the General Assembly in Zagreb 97 it was decided that the CC would be hosted by Deutsche Welle for Three years. This period ended in October 2000. No station came forward with an application, which means that Deutsche Welle will go on.

     

  5. Presidency

    6. Both president and vice-president want to step down. Since there were no candidates, Reinhard Behm proposed that the participants should write down the name of an attendant they consider suitable for the job. Eva Vikstedt asked if we could postpone the election until the next day: this would allow newcomers to get acquainted.

     

  6. Membership
  1. New Members

 

    1. Bericht aus Brüssel/WDR: This 15‘ magazine replaced Boulevard Europa. It’s broadcast every Wednesday from 22.00 till 22.15, consisting of political issues and topics on EU. Length: between 2’30 and 4’30.
    2. TV7/RAI: a 60‘ news and current affairs magazine produced by the Frontiere desk. Aired every Sunday at 22.00 PM. Length of items: from 3‘ to 9‘, covering Italian and international topics, ranging from politics over culture, show biz and fashion, to social issues, with one or more prominent guests in the studio.
    3. Sereno Variabile/RAI: Reports of this magazine deal with environment, arts and culture in Italy and abroad. There is a weekly version on Sunday dealing with one subject and a daily version showing 4 or 5 short items.
    4. 10vor10/SRG: 25‘ current affairs late show, broadcast Monday till Friday, giving background information on different political, cultural and social issues. First block: 2 or 3 reports current affairs, then short news. Last block: background-info or stories on culture and/or sdociety. Length of items: between 3‘ and 6‘.

Samples of all applying programmes were shown at the beginning of the screening and they were all accepted as members.
    1. DR they have no exchange partners within INTERMAG
    2. ORF: Management sent withdrawal quite unexpectedly even for the responsible editors: Reason: high costs. INTERMAG presidency would try to contyct Mr. Hipfl, editor in chief of their new Europa Magazin. He would like to join INTERMAG.
    3. Boulevard Europa/WDR: suspended in March and replaced by Bericht aus Brussel.

(b) Changes among Members: New Titles, Formats, Contacts etc.

 

  1. Miscellaneous
  1. Promotion INTERMAG

    2. Results of the Working Group: Most of the members of the working broup were not present in Helsinki (Vladimir Spicer), some of them even left INTERMAG (Steffen Gram, Guido Baumhauer, Karin Brans, Katinka Nowotny). The outcome of their action was not very successful: a letter was drawn and sent out to some target programmes but only Katinka Nowotny managed to attract SRG. Mariolina Bronzini brought two RAI programmes in the exchange. It seems that everyone is too busy to seriously tackle the problem of finding new members, consequently it is of no use to establish a new working group or to send out the letter again,. Obviously it is not read. The best way to win new members is to promote INTERMAG via personal contacts.

  2. Functioning of the INTERMAG exchange:

No remarks or suggestions

 

 

 

 
  1. INTERMAG Programme Exchange System (PES)

ATTENTION: Since February 2001 new address: www.progexsys.org
  1. Questionnaire

The answers revealed three problems:
  1. Lack of equipment: to upload video material a videcard is required, cost: about 300,-- DM (75 €). Still, members with computer and Internet access should be able to upload at least metadata. Gerd Lemmens promised to check with Deutsche Welle if this card couldn’t be provided by the CC. The members should contact their informatics department to assist them with the installation. Also Tecmath could be of some assistance.
  2. Trainig: to tackle this problem a PES-Workshop is scheduled for Saturday morning 9.00.
  3. Lack of Staff: the programmes should try to find a solution, uploading doesn’t take that much time and is quite easy to do.
  1. Remarks of members concerning the PES:

No remarks

 
  1. Next Meetings
  1. Next General Assembly (2002)

    2. BR/Munich will host the next meeting, Gerhard Losher checks the dates with hotels and contacts INTERMAG CC within the next weeks.

  2. General Assembly (2003)

No invitation was forwarded. Mariolina Bronzini will contact some members in the next weeks.

 
  1. Election President and Vice-President

    2. Mariolina Bronzini accepted to continue as president of INTERMAG, but Reinhard Behm insisted on stepping down. As it was suggested on Friday the attendants entitled to vote wrote down the name of the person they consider suitable as vice-president. Eva Vikstedt got the majority with six votes. She accepted for one year, since she will be taking up another job at YLE 2002.

     

  2. Screening Session / PES Training Session
  1. (a) Screening Session (List attached)

(b) PES Training Session

All participants could join Daniel Hansch from Tecmath to familiarise themselves with the PES or to raise questions and update their knowledge of the system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

President Vice-President

Mariolina Bronzini Eva Vikstedt