For public media's farther access to sports rights
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Following the URTl General Assembly (Paris , 17 October 2013) , the members adopted a "Statement on sports rights " to express their solidarity to Tewfik Khelladi’s EPTV in its campaign for a more equitable access to sports rights for the public media service.
The public media service, through the Union, play a decisive role in sport and cultural activities’ ethical and moral values’ promotion. This objective can only be achieved if the free wider access to public events is guaranteed, particularly in most important of them, football included.
In this context , URTI’s members wished to remind that the ethic of sharing must always prevail over commercial considerations and launched a solemn call to all the stakeholders ( international federations , continental and national professional organizations and public media ) to find quickly an appropriate solution – by way of example, the European Convention on Transfrontier Television’s relevant provisions - to ensure the public service’s regular functioning by ensuring the sports programs’ diffusion, including football, which need to be reachable by the largest possible number of viewers and listeners without any kind of hindrance or discrimination.
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French URTI / IBU : A new step for international partenerships
2013-10-17
On the 17th, October 2013 , on the occasion of the 65th URTI general assembly, in Paris, IBU (Islamic Broadcasting Union) and URTI signed a partership agreement.
Our Union has achieved in the last years, several partnership agreements with organizations operating for regional audiovisual cooperation such as ASBU (Arab States Broadcasting Union) and COPEAM (Permanent Conference of Audiovisual Operators in the Mediterranean).
There agreements were signed in order to enhance the exchanges between regional organizations, to widen URTI's network and to increase the possibilities of obtain fundings for common projects.
Developed in this framework, the partnership agreement with IBU covers 4 main fields: International circulation and exchange of audiovisual programmes, co-productions and implementation of common projects, trainings and mutual promotion.
FrenchPhotojournalism: Sebastiano Tomada wins the ICRC’s Humanitarian Visa d'Or prize for a report from Syria
2013-07-08On 20 June 2013, the jury for the ICRC’s third Humanitarian Visa d'Or awarded its 2013 prize to photojournalist Sebastiano Tomada (SIPA Press, New York) for a report from Aleppo, Syria on the situation of the medical helps.
Sebastiano Tomada, aged 26, will officially receive the ICRC’s Humanitarian Visa d’Or on 5 September next in Perpignan, at the 25th Visa pour l'Image international photojournalism festival.
