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EU parliament set to take wraps off
web TV channel The Parliament.com The long-awaited blueprint for parliament’s planned web TV channel will be unveiled next week. The prototype, to be shown to the assembly’s president, Hans-Gert Poettering, and vice-president, Alejo Vidal-Quadras on Tuesday, includes interviews, debates and news items. MEPs are expected to get a chance to give their verdict on the product in November with a final decision being made early in the New Year. The channel is designed to be available in several languages, will cost an estimated €9 million and provide up to 300 hours of programming a year. Michael Shackleton, parliament’s director general for information, said, “The fate of the web TV initiative is not yet known and cannot be predicted with any certainty. “Whether web TV has arrived at the right time or not remains to be seen. “But the decision eventually taken will point to the kind of institution parliament wants to become and will itself influence the future shape of relations between MEPs and the European electorate.” According to Shackleton, the channel, which has already been named ‘Europarl TV’, differs in several ways from the Europe By Satellite (EBS) system, which currently provides broadcast coverage of EU events, such as summit meetings. “It is, in fact, totally different,” he says. “EBS merely provides raw footage for European broadcasters whereas parliament’s channel will target a much wider audience, including the general public. “It will include edited programmes and live coverage of proceedings, including, possibly, committee meetings,” said Shackleton, who has been closely involved in the project since its inception. He said there was a “broad consensus” that the EU institutions had to do “much more” to communicate what they were doing. “A web TV channel is designed to enable EU citizens to know and understand better what the parliament they elected is doing.” “Next week, we will show a range of possibilities of how parliament could be put on the web. It will be up to members to decide if we proceed,” he added. Source |
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