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100 percent of those who responded said they preferred to use the online platform.
The NHK Managing Director Koki Morinaga gave the inaugural address at the News Group Meeting while the News Group chairman Joao Francisco Pinto of TDM-Macau gave the opening address.
The ABU News Director Chae Il gave a presentation on the overall AVN operations, issues and future plan including the goal of terminating the satellite feed by July.
Asiavision Targets Ending Satellite Feed by June
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siavision, the daily television news exchange program of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting
Union (ABU), has set the target of ending its satellite feed by June. This was announced at the 2015 ABU News Group Meeting in Sendai, Japan. So, members will use solely the file-based online platform from 1 July.
The News Group is the decision-making body for Asiavision (AVN). The News Group Meeting on 14 March was hosted by NHK. A total of 43 delegates from 23 AVN members attended the meeting. This decision was reached during the closed session of the meeting. The AVN Centre would liaise with all members to find out if any member had problems in using the online platform and to offer technical assistance if required.
The ending of the satellite feed would result in savings for the AVN Centre from having to pay for the satellite space and for members contributing via satellite they too will save from having to pay for their own uplink costs.
Currently, only seven members contribute to the news exchange via satellite while the online platform, introduced in 2009, is accessible to all AVN members and is used by the majority.
A survey conducted ahead of the News Group Meeting showed that
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AVN Senior Editor Tan Hockguan shared with the delegates the results of the online survey which was conducted from mid-January to the end of February. AVN Centre Coordinator Sri Wazni Asahar reported on the latest statistics and editorial matters concerning the AVN news exchange program.
The meeting also saw the introduction of three new members of Asiavision. They are TVTM of Turkmenistan, MTRK of Uzbekistan and EMTV of Papua New Guinea. With the resignation of the Forever Group of Myanmar last year and MBC of Mauritius and BBS of Bhutan early this year, the number of AVN members now stood at 28.
Eurovision’s Head of News Exchange Justyna Kurczabinska shared with participants the experience of the Eurovision news exchange program.
Head of Content at ARD-Germany Michael Wegener gave a presentation on how to cope with breaking news while Kim Seong Han of KBS-Korea presented on new trends in disaster reporting.
The meeting also heard from Jonathan Dumont of the World Food Programme (WFP) who reported on the relief aid efforts of the UN organization in various parts of the world.
Han Chuan Quee and Norraine Yusof of Singapore’s Channel NewsAsia (CNA) gave a presentation on the MediaCorp new campus which is scheduled to be fully operational in the second half of this year.
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