Stakeholders meet to launch television project

Posted by Simon Didszuweit on July 20, 2010 under TV, View all | Be the First to Comment

DW-AKADEMIE and Television Nationale de Lao (TNL) cooperate on the development of a new TV-News format featuring local information from all provinces in Laos. The project has successfully been developed and agreed upon in 2009.

From April 6th to 8th 2010, TNL held a conference to inform all stakeholders about the project idea, to inaugurate a “Steering Board” responsible for controlling the project cycle and to give room for discussion.

Representatives from both the departments of information and culture and the provincial TV-stations from 12 out of 16 provinces gathered around one table in Vientiane to discuss the visions, obstacles and needs of the committed partners. All partners have agreed on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), outlining the project design and responsibilities.

In an early stage, the new format is envisioned to be a 10 to 15 minutes show with local information pre-produced and contributed by the committed provincial stations on a daily basis. A network between the stations (to be established) shall enable them to share all content i.e. for rebroadcasting. Thus, the tasks ahead are:
1. set up production teams in both TNL-HQ in Vientiane and two pilot provinces
2. support the production team regarding all aspects of daily news-production and distribution
3. support the production team in Vientiane with processing and distributing the contributions from the provinces
4. establish a functioning network for content management and -sharing

All different aspects of the project will be discussed and decided upon by the “Steering Board”, a coordination team with executives from DW-AKADEMIE, TNL as well as Champassak and Luang Prabang province, who will represent the interests of all committed stations and were elected by the conference members.

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