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The Association for International
Broadcasting has members
throughout the world and to ensure
that their interests are served, the
AIB offers a range of activities
designed to bring the organisation
closer to member companies.
In addition to a programme of visits by
AIB executives to member
organisations worldwide, the
Association has regular conference calls
in which all members can participate.
Taking place about every six weeks, the
calls provide an opportunity for
members to gain the latest information
about the work of the AIB and, more
importantly, to discuss issues that
affect their businesses.
The conference calls allow a flow of
news between member organisations,
with conversations often continuing
off-line to follow up specific
exchanges, helping to generate
business for commercial AIB members.
Members receive regular
intelligence briefings that
cover a wide range of areas
affecting international
broadcasting. The briefings
– distributed exclusively to
AIB member organisations – offer
information that can provide business-
critical leads to commercial companies
seeking new tenders and contracts,
while broadcasters gain an overview
of the latest developments in
competing organisations and
distribution opportunities.
In early 2004, the AIB introduced
networking events for members. The
first of these took place in Washington
DC in February and brought together
US-based AIB members for an informal,
off-the-record dinner with a number
of specially-invited guests from the
World Bank and other organisations
with an interest in the media.
AIB – serving members worldwide
The AIB attends a range of conferences
that concern the electronic media and
provides reports to members on the
discussions and debate. Over the past
few months, the AIB has been at the
Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
General Conference in Fiji, the FT New
Media and Broadcasting conference in
London and the Australian Broadcasting
Summit in Sydney.
To find out more about AIB Member
benefits, contact
Anver Anderson
, AIB
Business Development Director
(see right)
.
In February, five AIB Members were
affected by the closure of a local FM
radio station in the Ukrainian capital
Kiev. The Ukrainian authorities seized
the transmitter and other equipment
belonging to Radio Kontinent which
has for the past several years carried
programmes from the BBC, Deutsche
Welle, Radio Polonia and the Voice of
America. However, when Kontinent
added programmes from Radio Liberty,
the Ukrainian authorities acted rapidly
to close the station, citing a range of
contraventions of Ukraine’s
broadcasting laws.
At the request of broadcasters the
Association launched a press campaign
to draw attention to the closure and
started to lobby the Ukrainian
authorities together with Ukraine’s
Embassies in the countries whose
international broadcasters were
affected by the Kontinent closure.
As this edition of
The Channel
went to
press, Radio Kontinent is still off the
air. There have, however, been
responses from three Ukrainian
Embassies - Berlin, London and Warsaw
- although the Ukrainian Prime Minister,
to whom the AIB also wrote, has not
yet responded. More information about
this story is on the AIB website.
AIB lobbies over Kiev
