Posted by Simon Didszuweit on July 21, 2010 under Radio, View all | 
“Friends of the People”, the new daily one-hour morning show (585 kHz, Mo-Fri 8am-9am) has been broadcast by Savannakhet Provincial Radio for almost a year (since September 21st 2009). The project is still developing and currently undergoing some major changes:
In order to lower the production costs and to efficiently strengthen people’s needs and opinions on air, the production team in Savannakhet has asked us to help revise the program and to develop it into a call-in-show. The aim is to invite the audience to more actively participate in the program – to call in live and to get in touch with other listeners, civil society, politicians and civil servants.
The re-alignment of regional radio is based on the fundamental principle of serving the public: more transparency and accountability, greater participation by all citizens in public debates, improved information and the inclusion of all voices and opinions. Project details and outlines will be discussed during Teamlaos’ next trip to the region (September 2010).
Posted by Simon Didszuweit on July 20, 2010 under TV, View all |
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.
TNL Stakeholder Conference 06.-08.04.2010
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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