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STORY: GENEVA / WORLD TV DAY
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SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19-21 NOVEMBER 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
19 NOVEMBER 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Zoom out, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) building exterior
2. Wide shot, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) building exterior
3. Wide shot, newsroom
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Moller, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva:
“I want to emphasize the three themes that are going to be part of the discussion on that day: Trust, diversity and innovation, all three absolutely crucial elements on our way forward as we try to help the world get where it needs to go.”
5. Wide shot, newsroom
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Moller, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva:
“For me it’s really an important day, both in substantive terms but also in showcasing our collaboration and our increasingly strong collaboration on all of these issues that are important to pass on.”
7. Med shot, Michael Moeller and Noel Curran
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Noel Curran, Director-General, European Broadcasting Union (EBU):
“World TV Day is very important – it is important to recognise the continued power, impact and influence that TV has and I think we are celebrating premium content that is what public service media is all about.”
10. Focus pool, Curran
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Noel Curran, Director-General, European Broadcasting Union (EBU):
“Television in all of its many guises and all of the many ways that it is now consumed and transmitted has a really strong future. It is changing, we need to change with it, the television is here to stay.”
11. Wide shot, signing
12. Close up, signing
13. Wide shot, hand shake
14. Wide shot, photo op hand shake
15. Wide shots, master control room
16. Various shots, newsroom
21 NOVEMBER 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
17. Various shots, World Television Day events at Palais des Nations
In celebration of World Television Day 2018, the United Nations in Geneva (UNOG) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have organized today at the Palais des Nations an event titled “Serving the peoples of the world: perspectives on the role of TV and the public interest.”
Three panels will address the fundamental issues faced by all media today, but perhaps particularly by television: trust, diversity and innovation.
The event follows on the heels of an agreement between EBU and the UN in Geneva that was signed on Monday (19 Nov); a Letter of Intent to cooperate, expressing the aim of working collaboratively and to build on a number of initiatives for the future.
The Director-General of United Nations Geneva Michael Moller said he wanted to emphasize the three themes that are going to be part of the discussion, “Trust, diversity and innovation, all three absolutely crucial elements on our way forward as we try to help the world get where it needs to go.”
He stressed the importance of the discussion “both in substantive terms but also in showcasing our collaboration and our increasingly strong collaboration on all of these issues that are important to pass on.”
UNOG, the main component of the United Nations in Europe, is home to the UN Information Service in Geneva, including its television (UNTV/TV ONU), web news and radio/podcasting (UN News/ONU Info), social media (@UNGeneva) and livestreaming (UN Web TV) operations, and provides communications support to the UN family’s Geneva-based agencies as well as to accredited media organizations operating on its premises.
Collaboration between the two Geneva-based entities goes back decades and has historically included the provision by UNOG to EBU of live coverage in high-definition of live events taking place on its premises or elsewhere in Switzerland. In recent years, this has included the provision of some 200 edited international news items per year, distributed via EBU’s Eurovision News Exchange circuits. Permanent fibre links run between UNOG’s UN Television studio and EBU, facilitating the transport of live signals and feeding of news items.
Noel Curran, Director-General of European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said World TV Day is very important adding that it was important “to recognise the continued power, impact and influence that TV has and I think we are celebrating premium content that is what public service media is all about.”
EBU, which operates the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, is the world’s largest community of public service media organizations, with 119 member organizations located in 56 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. EBU members run nearly 2,000 television and radio channels alongside numerous online platforms reaching audiences of more than one billion people around the world, in more than 160 languages.
According to Curran, “Television in all of its many guises and all of the many ways that it is now consumed and transmitted has a really strong future. It is changing, we need to change with it, the television is here to stay.”
Public service media and the UN have similar values - both seek to serve the greater public good and share the same engagement to build a better world, where citizens are better informed. Challenging fake news, leading the transparent and balanced dissemination of facts, and restoring public trust in democratic institutions are cornerstones of public service media.
New areas for collaboration will include EBU’s advisory participation in the development and validation of technical standards for broadcasting. UNOG and EBU also plan to jointly lead activities related to quality journalism and constructive news, public service media, and the safety of journalists.
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