World Radio Day 2014 celebrations

2014-04-01On the occasion of World Radio Day 2014 (February 13th 2014), URTI hosted the WRD International Committee celebrations.

The representatives of 11 international audiovisual unions gathered in Paris where they attended the opening concert of the “Présences” festival 2014 that took place at Théâtre du Châtelet (partnered with Radio France) in the presence of Mr Getachew Engida, Deputy Director General of UNESCO.



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On February 14th URTI also organized the annual meeting of the WRD International Committee. This meeting aimed at developing cooperation and coordination between the Committee’s members and between them and UNESCO so as to spread World Radio Day celebrations worldwide promoting at the same time the values and vision of radio professionals.

The International Committee meeting was the occasion to assess past initiatives and to define a strategy for their future development. The WRD13.com platform that is currently managed by URTI and whose success keeps growing year after year, should change its name in 2015 (so to become independent from number “13”) and become a basis for new initiatives.
At URTI’s request, three new organisations were included by the Committee: COPEAM, IBU and RAPAF.

The Committee also agreed on an ITU proposal to organize 2015 International Committee activities in honour of World Radio Day in the framework of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the agency. The EBU was appointed to be the Committee Coordinator for 2014-2015.

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International Women's Day 2014

2014-03-08



If you're a broadcaster you're probably tired of showing same old reportages about women, chocolate and flowers on International Women's Day.

Well, you're right. These contents do not contribute at all to the achievement of gender equity in your society. Do you really want to contribute on raising awareness on gender-equity? We can tell you how.

Do you really want to contribute to raise awareness on gender-equality? We can tell you how.

#1 Instead of broadcasting stereotypical content ABOUT women, promote quality content produced BY talented women professionals.
Here you have a selection of contents from our catalogue. They're interesting, they're for free, they're available for you in real time :

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY RADIO OFFER

INSTANTANES DU MONDE (Outremer 1ère - France)

A radio series produced by radio-globetrotter Anne Bonneau. Anne will make your listeners discover the Indian Ocean, its people, their culture.
Format : 20'00''
Available episodes : 55
Language : French

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COPEAM Special Offer

In the framework of URTI/COPEAM cooperation and on the occasion of World Radio Day 2014, RTVSLO (Slovenia) and RTSH (Albania) produced two radio programmes about gender issues and media.
They are just available for a limited time, so hurry up!

RTVSLO Programme "In the women's land"
Format : 30'00''
Language : Italian (English scripts)

Download it! (Click here) 

RTSH Programme
Format : 6'00''
Language : English

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INTERNATIONAL URTI GRAND PRIX - WOMEN BEST OF

"So far, so near" - URTI International Radio Grand prix 2013 (CRTV - Cameroun)
Produced by : Tabe Enonchong
Format : 13'00''
Language : English, French

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"Avec Lucie, pour Lucie" - Jacques Matthey-Doret Award for Discovery 2013 (MTVA - Hungary)
Produced by : Anita Bak
Format : 23' 00''
Language : Hungarian (English script)

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"Amours occupés" - Martine Filippi Award for Discovery 2012 (ARTE Radio, France)
Produced by : Marine Vlahovic
Format : 11'00
Language : French

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"Children of Sodom and Gomorrah" - 2011 URTI Award for Discovery (ABC - Australia)
Produced by : Sharon Davies
Format : 53'00''
Language : English

Download it (Click here)

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY SPECIAL TV OFFER

MARIA SKLODOWSKA CURIE (RTP - Poland)

Maria Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was a beautiful Pole, a French citizen and the first woman in the world to obtain the titles of doctor and professor in Sorbonne as well as two Nobel Prizes.

Format : 30'00
Language : French

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PARFUM DE FEMMES (France Télévisions - France)

A feminine and aesthetical approach of French cinema exclusively highlighting women

Format : Series
Episodes : 10 (13'00'')
Language : French

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UN in action (UNO)

4 episodes produced by United Nations about women's condition in Kabul, Nepal, Philippines and Nepal

Format : 5'00''

Episodes : 4

Language : English

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ON EQUAL BASIS (Euromed-News)

In Djelfa, the traditionally half-nomadic society, recently settled, is still very conservative. Women, in this half-rural area are usually housewives. In order to have this situation evolve and have these women from Djelfa benefit from their right to work, one of them chose to invest in the civil society.

Format : 26'00''
Language : Arabic (I.V. also available)

Order it! '(Click here)

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#2 Participate in UNESCO's "Women Make the News" campaign. Can you make sure at least 30% of interview sources in the news you're producing are women? We challenge you!
You can officially take part in this initiative through this link (click to view)

#3 Looking for some more inspiration? Check out UNESCO's suggestions (click here to view)

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World Radio Day : opening of the official website

2013-12-08
February 13 is the date set by UNESCO and validated by the general Assembly of the UN to celebrate World Radio Day (WRD). These celebrations will rest on the international cooperation established between radio broadcasters from the whole world along with their listeners. This day will make it possible to promote the access to information and freedom of expression on the air.



On the occasion of the first edition of World Radio Day, UNESCO and an International Committee made up of the twelve main audiovisual and telecommunication organizations launched a call for participation to invite professionals from radio and their listeners to record short messages about the importance of radio.

During winter of 2013, internet surfers from 48 countries shared and downloaded more than 2500 times hundreds of messages on the official website wrd13.com an interactive platform implemented by URTI for the International WRD Committee. On February 13 2013, these messages were broadcast by radio stations in the whole world in the framework of the World Radio Day celebrations.

The new website wrd13.com was formally opened on Monday December 9 2013 – in the framework of the ASBU general Assembly – by the attending representatives of several audiovisual organizations members of the WRD International Committee (ABU, ASBU, AIBD, IBU, EBU, URTI and COPEAM).

Many international radio stations already showed their support to this new edition by committing to providing its promotion for their listeners on their stations and their Websites. The listeners are invited to go already to wrd13.com to deposit their audio messages in every language. These messages will be downloaded by radio stations from the whole world who will broadcast them on the air and on their sites all day long on February 13 2014 to celebrate the Radio media.

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