Meeting of copeam radio commission roma, january 19TH,2009

MEETING OF COPEAM RADIO COMMISSION

ROMA, JANUARY 19^TH,2009

Report
This document reports the radio commission meeting held in Rome, at which were present all members mentioned in the list at the end of this document. Thus, you will find the main points presented as well as the decisions proposed for COPEAM Steering Committee.

1. 
   Review of the coproduction « Portraits of legendary football players »
   

The attending radios considered the broadcasting of the series « Portraits of legendary football players » globally satisfying. In fact, the series was broadcasted on 9 Mediterranean radios, mostly in its totality.

2. 
   Coproduction : « Mediterranean Mythical Harbors »
   

An hypothesis put forward : the difficulties of communication in some organisms, between the responsible who received the information and the journalist in charge of the episode realisation.

The ambition of this subject, especially compared to the one of “Portraits of legendary football players”, was put in discussion.

The Commission has decided to try and find solutions in order to continue to improve by always more precisely identifying an adequate methodology of work for this coproduction and the next to come and thereby obtaining a product with an increasing quality.
The propositions for the next coproductions :

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  The participant organisms will have to fill in an inscription form, that will include the subject, and the name and contacts of the journalists in charge.
  
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  The indications sent by the executive producer will be more precise, especially concerning the title and the angle.
  
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  To keep on sending a best-practice pilot episode.
  
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  For each coproduction, to organise a workshop with the journalists. The modalities and framework still need to be defined (COPEAM University, Annual Conference, independent meeting…)
  
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  To provide an FTP server in order to exchange the coproduction elements and to be faster in the production and reactions.
  
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  To organise an intern COPEAM price for the best episode of the coproduction in order to motivate the journalists and to reward one of them. The modalities of this price have still to be defined; it will be a point on the agenda of the next Radio Commission meeting in Cairo during COPEAM Annual Conference, on April 17^th.
  

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  All participant organisms should send the name and contacts of the journalists in charge of the episode.
  
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  Each of those journalists will receive a document with more precise indications on the contents and form. Regarding contents, that document will refocus the angle and will indicate the imaginary to be obtained.
  
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  From the new indications, radio partners will have to make, reorganise or remake their products.
  
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  After sending the indications, we will try to organise a workshop (of mixing, post-production or evaluation) for the journalists in charge of the coproduction. The framework of Copeam Conference was suggested but the modalities have still yet to be defined.
  
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  During next Radio Commission meeting, and after defining the modalities of the potential price - already mentioned sooner - it will be decided whether this award would become effective from this coproduction.
  

The commission launches a call to all radios regarding both financial participation and executive production responsibility for the potential future co-productions.

3. 
   Kantara, one year of broadcasting in its new format:
   

4. 
   Radio Commission Blog on COPEAM Internet Portal
   

It has been announced that the blog of the Radio Commission on COPEAM Internet Portal would soon be operational.

(RDV on http://www.copeam.org/commission.aspx?ln=fr&id=11&cm=3 )

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  The blog, to which frequent use the partners must become familiar, will become a working tool for the co-productions and projects. It will facilitate the communication between the journalists and it will become a coordination instrument.
  
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  All the participants in the projects (journalists etc.) and radio member’s representatives will receive their passwords by email as well as the pertinent contacts they might want to give us.
  
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  The two moderators of the blog will be: the Radio Commission President (Robert Kudelka) and the person in charge of COPEAM’s Radio Commission (Julie Royer).
  

5. 
   Development of the radio section at COPEAM University
   

For its 5^th edition, COPEAM University has reinforced the part dedicated to radio; it planned to organise radio reportages and multimedia workshop within which will be created a webradio.

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  This year, the trainers origins have diversified : they are representative from France Bleu Frequenza Mora (Radio France), the Tunisian Radio and the Algerian radio.
  
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  The number of Northern radios « interns » being quite low; the Commission invited the European radio to send more candidatures for the University.
  
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  The Egyptian radio put forward the age limit problem (35 years-old) and suggested to raise it at 40 years-old to offer more opportunities, in particular to some organisms in which only administrators (and therefore older) would receive the authorization to participate.
  
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  The President of the Training Commission, Christophe Dehlinger, took note of the proposition and will discuss it within his Commission.
  

6. 
   Various
   

The discussion about the Programs exchanges was globally reported to the next Commission Meeting. In preparation for that meeting, COPEAM is trying to settle on its blog/site an FTP exchange platform on which the programs could be exchanged.

Concerning the Francophone games in Beyrouth (September 27^th- October 06^th, 2009), that focus on culture and sport, she announced that two young radios, one French and the other Swiss, were interested and were in the phase of web radio montage.