INTERMAG General Assembly

Brussels

September 26 - 27, 2014

Draft Minutes

Friday, September 26, 2014 Start: 14.00 / End: ±17.00

1. Opening of the General Assembly

Gerhard Losher (BR) welcomed the attendants. Especially Helena Milinkovic who represented the program Globus of Slovenian TV for which she works as an editor and presenter. This 30’ current affairs program is aired every Tuesday. It contains 3 to 4 items up to 4 minutes on foreign affairs, mostly political. In order to fill her in there was a presentation round.

2. Approval of the ”Proposed Minutes”

The Minutes of the General Assembly 2013 in Vienna were approved.

3. Interested Programmes

Spanish TV: Adriana Dergam/Czech TV informed us of a contact with TVE. They would be looking for a suitable program to join the exchange. In order to show them the variety of what the INTERMAG members have to offer Adriana took a DVD with several items that were shown during the screening. She had an appointment in Madrid beginning of October and would keep the presidency posted.

Allan remarked that Spanish TV orders many items from SVT.

Kathrin Lemke said that Euromaxx screens half a dozen programs from all over Europe for Lifestyle items. With some of these programs they have special conditions: 1000 € per piece and a possibility to shorten them to 4’ without additional costs.

4. Membership

• Stefan Winiger/YLE found it difficult to offer items that are interesting for the exchange. Many subjects show the Finnish point of view which is not always suitable for an international audience. He also suggested to invite YLE's Finnish department to the next meeting.
• Adriana Dergam/Czech TV explained their topics are mostly short term and contain acquired material hence difficult to exchange. The program Horizont is now aired every day but Saturday. The style is faster, topics are shorter (2'30 with intro and stand up) and very up to date.
• Eberhard Schneider/MDR wants to contact "Artour", a MDR magazine on culture and life style. It could be an interesting partner for DW/Euromaxx. Another show: "Heute im Osten" might also be a good candidate for INTERMAG.
• Giorgia Ginaldi /RAI didn’t attend but she explained Gerd on the phone that it was very difficult to convince her bosses to join the free exchange since they want to make a profit by selling items.
• HRT has no suitable program at the moment. Anita Janko/MTVA offered to talk to her HRT contact with whom she exchanges.
• ORF: people in power are still not open to the idea of INTERMAG but Gudrun keeps pushing.
• At the moment the rule is that a single program is the member. But it was suggested to perhaps open up to other programs belonging to the same department.

5. Election presidency

Udo Biss/NDR sadly would like to resign as vice-president for personal reasons but also to give younger members a chance to join the presidency. Next year new elections are due. Kathrin Lemke was elected unanimously and accepted to step up for one year.

6. Future of INTERMAG

First of all a fee of 500,00 € will have to be paid by every member as from 2015. The magazine hosting the CC would receive 1000,00 € and would be free from paying the fee.

Concerning INTERMAG itself it is the victim of major changes with Deutsche Welle. First of all the new General Managing Director Peter Limbourg announced at the start of his position that the station will become a mainly English news channel as from April 2015. This entails a whole list of structural, logistical and staff related changes. One of the consequences is that most of the magazines will be produced in Bonn including Europa Aktuell which also changes its name into Fokus Europa / Focus on Europa from October on. Due to the relocation of the magazine Studio Brussels where both the magazine and the CC were resident for many years has no call for INTERMAG anymore and the new Head of Office canceled the agreement between INTERMAG and Studio Brussels after 2015. As convened in the Memorandum of Understanding of 2012 Studio Brussels will fulfill the contract until the end of 2015. After that date INTERMAG has to find a new host for the CC. The two Deutsche Welle members Fokus Europa and Euromaxx want to stay in INTERMAG and they might be good candidates for the CC. But at the moment they are in such an upheaval that they cannot assess the effect of hosting the CC on their workflow. Mid 2015 both programs have a better view on their possibilities especially concerning staff.

To make the hosting of the CC more manageable there was a discussion on how to minimize its workload. It was suggested to split up the tasks of the CC.

1. The main part is the organization of the meetings. Every member could take care of that in a flexible rotation. The costs of the meetings would be covered by the fees so no additional costs would be involved for the organizing member. The proposal was accepted unanimously.

SVT offered to organize the 2015 meeting in Stockholm still with assistance of the actual CC.

2. The question of the accounting was another big issue. That could still stay with Deutsche Welle and more precisely connected to the show that succeeds Europa Aktuell.
3. The remaining tasks - file the offerings, manage the address list and the website and communicate with actual and future members - would stay with the CC in a light version

Still: bottom line is that at this point Deutsche Welle cannot guarantee the continuation of the CC. In 2015 a solution hopefully will be found.

7. Exchange

• Kathrin Lemke/DW stressed that it is very important to have the online rights for the pieces they broadcast. Some items which have been broadcast from Monday to Friday in Euromaxx are aired in "Euromaxx highlights" every Saturday. Each highlights show is also shown in the DW YouTube channel. It was advised to not use items in the highlights, only in the regular daily show
  
  There are several possibilities to solve the copyright problem: YLE and RTV insert the origin of the piece. BR announces it in the presentation. An insert is not an option for Euromaxx since the layout doesn't allow it. And it would reveal that there are not that many own reports. To Adriana Dergam/CzechTV it seemed that mentioning the origin of the piece in the presentation should be sufficient.
• Adriana Dergam/CzechTV said that they take more from DW because there is an English version. Although finding a translator is not that big of a problem some programmes work with such a small budget that a translator is too expensive.
• Eberhard Schneider/MDR had a problem putting many items in the exchange since they are quite short (2'30) and very up to date which is typical for a news show.

8. Next Meeting

The 2015 General Assembly is scheduled for September in Stockholm.

Saturday, September 27, 2014 Start: 09.30 / End: 13.00
Coffee Break: 10.45
Lunch: 13.15

10. Screening Session

List attached

President

Gerhard Losher

INTERMAG General Assembly Brussels

September, 26-27, 2014

Screening Session

No	Station	Programme	Title	Length
1.	BR	Euroblick	Albania - Women Fight for Their Rights	5’48
2.	Czech TV	Horizont	The Overpriced Capital of Angola	2’21
3.	DW	Euromaxx	Munich's Oktoberfest	4’08
4.	NDR	Ostseereport	Denmark - Up in the Trees against Vertigo	6'09
5.	MDR	MDR-Aktuell	Russians Stay Away of Karlovy Vary	4’15
6.	SVT	Rapport	New Ways to Attract Recruits in Hospitals	1’17
7.	MTV	TÉRkép	Slovakia: A Bee's Paradise	5’30
8.	BR	Euroblick	Switzerland - Lamas Protecting Shepherds	7’03
9.	DW	Europa Aktuell	France - Refugees in Calais	6’05
10.	SVT	Aktuellt	Freedom and Calm in the Swedish Mountains	4’13
11.	MTVA	TÉRkép	Romania - Contraception	4’55
12.	NDR	Ostseereport	Finland - Raftsmen Competition	5’55
13.	DW	Euromaxx	Designer Fausto Puglisi	4’22
14.	DW	Europa Aktuell	Romania: Fearless Shepherds	5’35
15.	MTVA	TÉRkép	Pan-European Picnic	6’35
16.	BR	Euroblick	Norway - Wenn Being Rich is a Problem	7’00
17.	SVT	Aktuellt	Mining or Reindeer Keeping in Lapland	3’19
18.	NDR	Ostseereport	Schweden - Näcken Stäeman Festival	7’24
19.	DW	Europa Aktuell	Turkey - Miners in Danger	6’26
20.	DW	Euromaxx	Drone Photography	4’40
21.	MTVA	TÉRkép	Hungary - War Painter	3’50
22.	NRK	URIX	Norway - Tablets in High Schools (not shown)	5’00
23.	NRK	URIX	Refugees in Calais (not shown)	6’00

INTERMAG General Assembly Brussels
September 26 - 27, 2014

Attendance

Berlin DW Euromaxx Kathrin Lemke

Brussels DW Europa Aktuell Christian F. Trippe

Budapest MTVA TÉRkép Anita Jankó

Helsinki YLE TV-Nytt Stefan Winiger

Kiel NDR Ostseereport Udo Biss

Leipzig MDR MDR-Aktuell Eberhard Schneider

Ljubljana RTV International Horizons Helena Milinković

Munich BRF Wir in Europa: Euroblick Gerhard Losher

Prague Czech TV Horizont Adriana Dergam

Stockholm SVT Aktuellt / Rapport Ingrid Thörnqvist
Allan Tammik

Intermag CC Gerd Lemmens

Could not attend: HRT/Zagreb, NRK/URIX, ORF/Wien, RAI/Rom, SRF/Zurich, TVP/Warschau