Industry briefing – latest from AIB
AIB has published its latest industry briefing, covering programming, distribution, people and more.
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The 2012 AIBs | shortlist released
The shortlist of entries in the 2012 AIBs, the international media excellence awards, has been announced.
“The shortlist has been even more challenging to compile this year,” says Simon Spanswick, AIB chief executive. “We received more entries from more organisations than ever, and most were of an extremely high standard. This made selecting the finalists for the 2012 AIBs extremely difficult. Some hard decisions were made, and now it is up to our global panel of judges to deliver the names of the winners in this year’s competition.”
The international panel of judges includes programme makers, journalists, editors, producers and executives across every continent – full details of all the judges are here. Over the coming four weeks, they will be evaluating and reviewing entries and submitting their results in time for the annual gala evening on Wednesday 7 November.
“This year, the judges are receiving the entries electronically,” says Spanswick. “For the first time, we have done away with the need to ship DVDs, audio CDs and accompanying paperwork around the world by courier. Instead, all the material is online for judges to watch or download at their leisure. It makes these awards a little bit greener.”
The gala awards evening in London will be hosted this year by Evgenia Altfeld, a presenter/producer at RTG TV in Russia. Evgenia has worked in TV news in Russia before becoming a political spokesman in the St Petersburg region. She joined RTG TV in 2011 and now produces and presents a range of programmes for the Russian travel channel.
To reserve places at the 2012 AIBs, visit the AIBs page on this site, or download the booking form here.
The 2012 AIBs are sponsored by Eurosport and RTG TV.
Find out about regulatory challenges in Vietnam and Brazil
An important part of the work that the AIB carries out for its members is helping understand and tackle regulatory challenges for international TV and radio broadcasters as they operate in different countries.
Recently, the AIB published market intelligence on concerns raised by recent regulation in Vietnam and Brazil.
Although this report was initially published exclusively to members, you can now read it by going to this page.
After it was published, members fed back their comments to the AIB who prepared a position paper on the situation in Vietnam and have now started discussions with the Vietnamese authorities to represent the views of their members.
AIB/Wimbledon Post-Olympic Broadcast Briefing
AIB and Wimbledon are jointly organising a major Post-Olympic Broadcast Briefing on Friday 12 October.
This high-level, invitation-only event will examine the way broadcasters around the world covered London 2012 and how the lessons learnt can be used for coverage of live sports in the future.
Full information here.
New AIB industry briefing
AIB has published its latest industry briefing, its round-up of news from and about AIB members, plus stories from the wider industry. In this edition we cover production, technology, people and distribution.
You can read the briefing online here.
These briefings are published by AIB every four weeks or so and reach more than 26,000 media leaders globally. For information on how you can use this industry briefing to tell your story, contact Matthew Porter or Judy Lund on +44 20 7993 2557.
AIB launches updated website
AIB, the industry association for international TV, radio and trans-media broadcasting, has launched its updated website.
A range of new features will be progressively unveiled as AIB receives feedback from its members and visitors to the site at www.aib.org.uk.
An extensive resources library offers access to features that have been carried in the AIB’s print and online publications. News stories from AIB members and across the industry from our archive built up over the past ten years will be added to the site over the coming weeks.
There will also be information about AIB members, access to the AIB e-news industry briefing and more.