July 26, 2010

PBI 2010, Sintra - Conference (Registration Form)

As you know, RTP – Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A. is pleased to host this year’s PBI Conference in Sintra* on 27th-29th October.lou
RTP kindly invites your organization to be represented at the PBI 2010 Conference which has become an important forum in the PSB’s calendar and we recommend that you make your Hotel reservation as soon as possible to guarantee room availability.

To ensure a smooth arrangement for your stay, we would appreciate that the completed REGISTRATION FORM be forwarded to the Hotel of your own choice with a copy to us at the earliest convenience.

We look forward to seeing you in Sintra. For more information, please contact:
email: pbi2010@rtp.pt
phone: +351 217 947 659/ …60/…63/…64
fax: +351 217 947 450

May 02, 2010

PBI 2010, Sintra - Promotional video.

Mar 30, 2010

The PBI Steering Committee meeting was held in Lisbon on 26th March, at the head office of RTP. Among other topics of interest, Toshiyuki Sato (NHK, Japan) presented the final report about the Conference held in Kyoto in 2009. RTP took the opportunity to reveal the project related to the event taking place this year in Sintra. The meeting was chaired by José Marquitos, Vice-President of RTP, and was coordinated by the General-Secretary of the PBI, Charles Gréber. It was attended by delegates from France, Norway, South Korea, Japan, Macau and Singapore. After the meeting they also enjoyed a visit to Sintra, to the venue where the Conference will be held.

January 8, 2010

Opening Speech by Shigeo Fukuchi, NHK President, at the PBI 2009 Conference held in Kyoto.(highlights)

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We face the difficulties and challenges in any public broadcaster in the world and we are now making our best efforts to search for the idealization and accomplishment of the ideas. Myself, I have been engaged in the management of the commercial corporation in the past, more than fifty years, and two years ago approximately, I became the President of NHK. Ever since then I have been telling explicitly that there are things we must change and there are things that we must not change and that has to be differentiated clearly. The change of the period and the demand of the period would ask us to make the change and to make the reform. One of the reforms that I have been working on is to let the employees to broaden their perspectives and have more different experiences through personnel reshuffles. It seems that the employees of our company or the corporation tend to focus on their own function. It is necessary to have the communication and networking in cross divisionally. We hope that we will be able to invigorate the organization through these efforts. It will take time to make judgment whether or not what I intend to implement in our organization is going to be effective. But since I came into the broadcasting world from outsider, I have embarked on a reform, feeling a strong need to grow broadcasting people and broadcasting culture with much wider perspectives. On the other hand there are things we must not change. To the viewers and to the audience, we have to do our best efforts wholeheartedly to provide them with the best quality broadcasting. That is something we must not change. We continue to broadcast the high profile programs. And because Japan is vulnerable to natural disasters, it is necessary to reinforce the broadcasting of emergency disaster news. We hope that we will be able to place the news as one of the important pillars. And our backbone of public broadcasters are impartiality, independence and autonomy. This is the indispensable requirement as the freedom of the press. This is something which cannot be changed in order to continue to gain confidence from the viewers. No matter where in the world we are, we hope that we will be able to discuss things we should change, things we must not change so that we will be able to have the clear vision on the universal value of the public broadcasting.