The CR Secretary General Report
CR Executive Committee/European Board Grado, May 21st, 2003

2003 - a very busy 1st half
• 80% of the yearly activities in the first half of the 2003
• More to come:
- Executive Committee, Liege, October 4
- Newsroom Management Seminar, Strasbourg, November 17-22
- Executive Committee, Wroclaw, November 28
- European Board, Wroclaw, November 29

Training - 4 done 1 to go
• AVID technicians training, London, March
• Middle management training, Zagreb, March
• Ethnic minority seminar, Budapest, April
• Annual Conference training, Grado, May
• Thanks to AVID, HRT, MTV and RAI for hosting them

Co-Productions - good kick off!
• 3 meetings of the Subcommittee on CoPros (Trieste, November 2002, Munich, January 2003 - Budapest, February 2003)
• Launch of the 2 big EU enlargement CoPros
- The New Teenage Europe
- The Last Straight Line
• First broadcast via EbS in April 2003
• CoPro Office in Munich to transfe r EbS coordination to CR Secretariat

Prix Circom - Sinaia, Romania
• 137 entries from 25 countries in 2003 compared to 164 entries from 22 countries in 2002
• Quality of regional programmes rising - David Lowen
• Committee of the Regions for the first time sponsoring Cross-Border
• Prix Circom trainee Piotr Czyzkowski from TVP3 Wroclaw won News Grand Prix
• Prix Circom trophies redesigned - to be presented for the first time in Grado
• TVR, Elena Spanily - thank you for hosting us

Annual Conference Grado
•Many participants - 180 + 35 in training
•Excellent list of speakers - lot of efforts invested by national coordinators and EC members
•RAI prepared a “Survey on regional broadcasting models” - 20 questionnaires returned from national coordinators
•Draft survey to be presented at the Conference
•RAI, Pier Luigi Malesani, Paolo Morawski - thank you for all the efforts invested in organising it

A brand new face of Circom
•Redesigned web site attracts double traffic
•New Circom web site to be launched during the Grado Conference
•Circom logo and presentations being redesigned
•2 issues of the SG Newsletter, along to monthly Circom Report
•More than 500 recipients of the Circom mailing list
•Four questionnaires (Membership, Training, Prix Circom, Euromusica) shed some new light on the old problems

Questionnaires - Conclusions
• Who answered?
- 28 national coordinators out of 38 (74%)
- Albania, Austira, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK
- Cyprus for the first time taking active part
- Not consistent all the time, but still useful
- Thanks to Branka for urging them all to send the questionnaires back to Secretariat

Questionnaires - Membership
• How important is the CR membership (1-5)?
- To you 4,57
- To your bosses 3,47
- To your colleagues 3,43
- To your network 3,19
• Why is the membership of such low interest?
- The bosses do not recognize it 5
- We do not broadcast any CR programme 4
- Too little benefit for membership paid 3
- It is badly promoted and publicized 2
• We do not get any information regarding

• Have you or your people participated in any CR activities in last five years?
- European Board 21 of 23
- Training 19 of 23
- Annual Conference 19 of 23
- Prix Circom 18 of 23
- Executive Committee 15 of 23
- Coproductions 13 of 23
- Euromusica 11 of 23
• Reasons for not being active
- Financial difficulties / travel expenses
- No interest shown by responsible persons
• What CR could do to improve or change this?
- Circom could adopt a clear mission statement, a signed undertaking from DG of member organizations. Identify barriers for members putting from other regions on their schedules

• Should CR accept independent producers and similar organizations as associate members?
- 10 Yes / 10 No
• Reasons for YES to independent producers:
- Because the contacts would be wider which means new ideas and options - more opportunities for co-productions and programmes
- Competition from private producers would only be good for coproductions. It would stimulate old CR member to work better. It would be “fresh blood” for CIRCOM
- They should be involved in cooperation under the condition that even they need to pay the membership
- In some countries independent producers could play important role in increasing values and professional standards of public
We should disseminate knowledge and open our schedules to citizens across Europe.
We should support and nurture people who share our goals

• How do you get information about CR activities?
- Circom Regional mailing list 20 of 23
- Circom Report 20 of 23
- Circom Regional web pages 19 of 23
- Annual Conference 18 of 23
- Europe by Satellite 3 of 23!!!!

Questionnaire - Training
• Have you heard of the CR Training? 22 of 23
• How important is the CR Training? (1-5)?
- To you 4,30
- To your colleagues 3,95
- To your network 3,63
- To your bosses 3,63
• Why is the CR training of such low interest?
- My station can not afford travel expenses
• Have you participated in any CR training in the last five years?
- Up to 5 different training so far 14
- More than 5 different training so far 5
- Never 1
• How do you assess the quality of CR training
- To your colleagues 4,26
• What kind of training did your people attend?
- AC training for Young Journalist 15
- Newsroom Management Seminar 15
- Middle management seminar 7
- Other circom trainings (when) 3
• Are these people still employed by your stations, if so on what positions?
- Most of them still working, some promoted
• Reasons for no participation:
- Financial difficulties / travel expenses 8
- No interest shown by responsible persons
- No interest from member stations 2
• What kind of training did your people attend?
- AC training for Young Journalist 15
- Newsroom Management Seminar 15
- Middle management seminar 7
- Other circom trainings (when) 3
• Are these people still employed by your stations, if so on what positions?
- Most of them still working, some promoted
• Reasons for no participation:
- Financial difficulties / travel expenses 8
- No interest shown by responsible persons
- No interest from member stations 2
• What CR could do improve or change this
- Financial help, better promotion
• What types of training would you like to see?
- New technologies, digital, not only journalists
• Should CR training be open to user-payer?
- 6 Yes 9 No
• If No state why?
- Need to explain the question in more detail, do not want to change existing training into user-payer

Questionnaire - Prix Circom
• Have you heard of the PRIX CIRCOM? 23 of 23
• How important is the PRIX (1-5)?
- to you 4,43
- to your colleagues 3,90
- to your bosses 3,41
- to your network 3,29
• Why is the PRIX of such low interest?
- It is badly promoted and publicized 3 answers
- It is just too mach effort to enter 2 answers
• Categories of the PRIX (1-5)
- Documentary 4,81
- News 4,53
- Current affairs 4,53
- Cross Border 4,33
- Arts 3,25
- Politics 3,15
- Children's 3,14
- Other 3,00
- Music 2,85
- Sport 2,54
- Drama 2,50
- Entertainment 2,29
- Comedy 2,08
•How and when should the award be given (1-5)?
- Ceremony at Circom conference 4,90
- TV programme for viewers 3,00
- Private ceremony for personals 2,00
•What should the prize be?
- Money award is important 4,26
- Money up to 5000 euros 3,94
- Money up to 10 000 euros 3,83
- Certificate to display 3,80
- Trophy of normal value 3,69
- Money up to 3000 euros 3,36
- Trophy if intrinsic value 2,92
- Honour is enough 2,50
•Who should receive and "own" the award (1-5)?
- Station decides 4,06
- Director 3,40
- Producer and director 3,36
- Station keeps 3,30
- Producer 3,00
- Individual keeps 3,00
•Should the winning programms be seen more widely (1-5)?
- Winners should be widely viewed 4,80
- Free for Circom stations 4,33
- Free only to station who enter 3,33
- Showing winners should be compulsory 2,64
- This commitment inhibits entries 2,13
- Free showing unrealistic 1,83
- No-one wants to show winner 1,40
• Did any of your stations broadcast Prix Circom 2002 Winners?
- Grand Prix Circom regional, News
1. Reporting Scotland 2
2. Objective 1
3. Central news at six 0
- Grand Prix Circom regional, Documentary
1. Dead silence 4
2. L'hopital de la plage 1
3. Voyage dens L'entre deux 1
- Current affairs
1. The smugglers 4
2. Stephen’s story 4
3. Life in Ribnovo 2
- Cross-border
1. Knowalski meets Schmidt 3
2. The last stitch 2
3. Catherine: the saint of two communities 3
- Special
1. Winner below sea level 1
2. The talents 2

•Have you heard of the CR Euromusica? 22 of 23
•How important is the Euromusica (1-5)?
- to you 3,05
- to your network 2,55
•Has your station participated in Euromusica?
- Yes - 13 of 23
•If Yes how many times
- Up to 4 times 11
- More than 5 times 2
•Have you aired Euromusica 2002?
- Yes - 6 of 23
•By what means have you recorded Euromusica 2002?
- Tape delivered by ERT 5
- Tape delivered by Circom Secretariat 2
- Satellite EBU 1
- Satellite EbS 0
•Do you plan to participate in Euromusica 2003?
- Yes - 10 of 23
•Why is the Euromusica of such low interest?
- This is no adequate programe for my station 10
- My station can not afford travel expenses 5
- It should be of a better quality 5
- It is badly promoted and publicized 4

Application of the CR Activity report
• Approach the members that have not been very active within CR so far
• Evaluate the messages from questionnaires to improve the existing projects and activities, make a move towards new ones
• Evaluate the use and scheduling of EbS slot

Last, but not least!
• Extra funding - where and how?
• New EU projects to be developed - tenders recently published
• Strengthen the public awareness of CIRCOM Regional (PR)
• Strengthen the very good participation of new DSG Hubert Schilling