GA 2016 - News Group Presentation
Mr Chae II, ABU News Director and Mr Joao Pinto, ABU News Group Chair
Asiavision on the Rise
• One new member joined Asiavision • 1,700 news items exchanged in one month • CNN renews AVN subscription
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siavision (AVN), the news exchange network is going from strength to strength. It
has now 31 members from 27 countries that are exchanging news items on a daily basis. In their presentation of the AVN Activity Report at the ABU General Assembly, the Chairperson of the News Group, Mr Joao Francisco Pinto who is also the Portuguese News and Programme Controller at TDM-Macau as well as Mr Chae II, the ABU News Director said that AVN has improved both in terms of quantity and quality.
In August 2016, the number of items exchanged was 1700, the highest in 32 years of AVN history. For the last 3 years, the situation has developed as follows:
YEAR 2014 2015 2016
ITEMS EXCHANGED 10,000 15,000
18,000 (Expected)
The increase in the number of news items exchanged daily is explained by
the efforts made by the AVN team in Kuala Lumpur and all AVN members. Mr Pinto said that firstly, there has been an improvement in the quality of the items. Secondly, using only the internet file-based protocol (ftp), members can now upload news easier and faster. Asiavision is also receiving material from its new member - PNN, a private broadcaster from Cambodia.
Asiavision also has a news exchange cooperation programme with the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Mr Pinto announced that CNN has renewed its subscription with AVN, thus using news items from the Asia-Pacific region to broadcast around the world.
Mr Chae II pointed out that it is imperative to improve the quality of the news items. To do this, AVN regularly organises training workshops for its members. In 2016, three workshops on Non-Linear Editing were organised in Kuala Lumpur and in two cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh.
PNN-Cambodia is AVN’s 31st Member
PNN is a commercial television channel in Cambodia and its membership to Asiavision officially started on 1 October 2016.
PNN is Cambodia’s newest terrestrial, free-to-air TV channel that also broadcasts on Cambodia’s DTH platform as well as the country’s major cable operators. It is part of the LYP Group, one of Cambodia’s biggest business conglomerates with interests in hospitality, agriculture, infrastructure, leisure and entertainment, and retail.
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