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  • Prasar Bharti, IABM to hone skills of broadcast engineers

    Prasar Bharti, IABM to hone skills of broadcast engineers

    MUMBAI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcast Union (ABU), with support from the International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers (IABM), conducted a training course on radio transmitters at the AIR Staff Training Institute (Technical) in New Delhi from 21 February to 4 March 2005.

    Course highlights included sessions on AM, FM and digital broadcasting techniques; participants were exposed to the various systems and hardware pertaining to radio transmitters and delved into topics on digital radio broadcast.

    ABU head of Studio Technology & Training Rukmin Wijemanne said, “The training course is the result of a unique partnership between Prasar Bharati, the IABM and the ABU. The trainees will benefit immensely from these well prepared courses.”

    “All India Radio (Pasar Bharati) is happy to be able to contribute to the development of the technical skills of broadcast engineers in the Asia-Pacific region under this partnership. We hope that such partnerships will continue in the future for similar developmental missions in the Asia-Pacific region,” said All India Radio engineer-in-chief K. M. Paul.

    In addition, the ABU-IABM Training Course on TV Studio Equipment will be held on 7 March -18 March 2005, also in New Delhi and at the same venue. The course will provide engineers with an insight into the functioning of TV studio equipment, video production and post-production practices, and the move from analogue to digital. A visit to Doordarshan’s TV Studios for course participants will also be arranged.

    Introduced at IBC 2001, the IABM Tom McGann bursary provides financial assistance totalling up to £20,000 (USD 38,160), administered through responsible and recognised organisations, to groups of young engineers who would otherwise be unable to benefit from such formal training. The bursary recognises a life-long and significant contribution made to the international broadcasting community by Tom McGann, a former chairman of the IABM, and reflects the IABM’s ongoing commitment to assisting in the future of broadcasting.

    Both ABU courses are funded by the Tom McGann Bursary Award scheme – providing the allowance for some 33 trainees from ABU member organisations. The IABM previously awarded this bursary to the ABU in 2002 which was used to train 6 engineers at the USTTI, DW Radio and TV Training Centres, informs an official release.

    “The IABM established the annual Tom McGann Bursary, with the primary purpose of promoting and assisting with the provision of engineering training within the broadcasting industry. It’s very important that we provide opportunities to students who may not otherwise be able to gain access to this type of training,” commented IABM chairman Martin Salter. “By granting the Tom McGann Bursary to a well respected and established broadcasting organisation such as the ABU, we can reach young engineers all over the world, widening the talent pool for manufacturers’ looking to employ the next generation of broadcasting engineers.”

     

  • BJP spokesperson M A Naqvi

    BJP spokesperson M A Naqvi

    From being a junior minister to former information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj few years back, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has come a long way to become one of the young Turks for the Hindu-dominated Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been accused to be having allegedly an agenda against the minorities of the country.

    Though many had thought that the political career of this Muslim leader from Uttar Pradesh would be short-lived after he was shunted out of the government to the party, Naqvi has proved skeptics wrong. Not only has he risen up within the party ranks as one of the general secretaries and a party spokesperson, he was also nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the BJP soon after.

    As part of an integral part of the media cell of the BJP, Naqvi is hopping from one TV studio to another these days in the run up to the general elections. In this interview with indiantelevision.com’s Anjan Mitra in his Delhi residence, Naqvi discusses some of the issues relating to the party’s media and communication strategy for the elections.

    Excerpts:

    On the broad media strategy of the party for the general elections…
    The party is totally geared up for the elections and though some of the things are yet to be fine-tuned, our strategy this time embraces both traditional and new media. Some of the initiatives can already be seen. The total strategy hinges on issues like development, foreign affairs, national security and a sound economy. In short, India Shining. This time we’d fight
    the elections from the sky (through satellite channels) as also on the ground.

    On the people behind the media strategy…
    Every decision is taken with the consent of Prime Minister AB Vajpayee and his deputy LK Advani. But there are certain senior leaders who are core to the strategy. People like party president Venkaiah Naidu and leaders like Pramod (Mahajan), Arun (Jaitley), finance minister Jaswant Singh, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and Sushmaji (Swaraj). Of course, there are inputs from every nook and corner of the party, but the details are fine-tuned by these people.

    On the type of media spend that has been that has earmarked for the general elections.

    The full budget is not yet ready and it’d be difficult also to put a figure to it. In our party such things work at various levels. There is a central media budget, while the state units have their separate funds too. Full information on this is still to come to the party headquarters.

    But I must point out that media speculations on the BJP’s advertising and media budget have put figures on the higher side.

    (A recent news report in a business daily had stated that BJP alone may end up spending close to one billion rupees on its media and communications plan)
    “Technology has made us feel that Internet is a medium that should be tapped”

    On whether TV channels too would form an integral part of the plan…
    TV channels certainly would form an important part of the plan, but we feel that satellite TV’s reach is between 30-35 per cent only. Keeping that in mind, we’d have to use the medium innovatively. Moreover, there is a feeling within the party that taking airtime on news channels only would not serve the purpose. The mass-based entertainment channels too would have to be added to increase the reach of the message.

    But, at this moment, the details of the channels have not been finalized as we are still awaiting a directive from the Election Commission and would also have to wait for the final outcome of the issue of advertising on the electronic medium.

    On the break-up of media share of various segments
    Roughly TV would take up 15 per cent of the media budget, while another 25 per cent would go to the print medium. The rest would be made of other media and initiatives like the Internet, SMS (over cellular phones), promotional stuff aired via video vans, outdoor hoardings (wherever permitted), audio cassettes and cinema halls. The last would be tapped in a big way and some 200 cinema halls round the country have already been identified for this purpose.

    On the two major new areas being tapped for media…
    Technology has made us feel that Internet is a medium that should be tapped. The hows, whys and whens are being worked upon by the techno-savvy ones. (Pramod Mahajan and his team, including his one time OSD, Ajay Singh and Sudhanshu Mittal, are said to be the techno-savvy ones who are coming up with ways to exploit technology and the Net.)

    The second major area could be TV, if the controversies are ironed out.

    On outside professional help being taken this time…
    As always, the core idea comes from within the party that is given a shape and articulated by advertising agencies. There are several of them, including a Mumbai-based firm headed by one Mr Khandelwal, working with us. But most of the catchy lines have been coined in-house till now.

    On whether surrogate advertising, targeting opposition politicians like Sonia Gandhi is in good taste…
    I think everybody is to be blamed. The opposition too has been flooding the media with surrogate advertising questioning the government’s achievements. Whether something is good or bad is subjective and depends on various factors.
  • Production and post-production trade show on 1 November in Mumbai

    Production and post-production trade show on 1 November in Mumbai

    Come 1 November, TV studio owners, editors, animation and graphic artists are going to be headed towards Mumbai’s World Trade Centre. The reason: the eleventh edition of the Broadcast India trade show, showcasing the latest in post and production equipment, will be flagged off on that day. Organised by Saicom Trade fairs & Exhibitions from 1-3 November, the show will be preceded by a two-day Symposium from 30-31 October 2001 at Y.B. Chavan Centre which is a hop step away from the WTC.

     

    “The entire exhibition space has been booked,” says Saicom promoter Ramesh Meer. “The response has been very enthusiastic.”

     

    JVC, Sony, Panasonic, Silgicon Graphics, Discreet, Matrox, Orad, AVID, Soundscape, Tascam, AKG, Shure, DPS/Leitch, Fairlight, Eela Audio are all expected to unveil their products at the show, some of which have been unfurled at IBC, SIGGraph and Broadcast Asia earlier this year. More than 250 of the worlds leading companies from 30 countries, are expected to show up for the trade show this year.

     

    The DPSVelocity (providers of post production equipment) stall at last year’s event.

     

    “The event is expected to attract more than 21,000 trade visitors,” says Saicom CO-promoter Kavita Meer. Senior professionals from the broadcasting and post industry are expected to speak at the symposium and topics will run the gamut of TV, radio, video, audio, film, music, lights, cable, satellite, multimedia, transmission, computer graphics, broadband Internet and all their allied and associated technologies.

     

    According to a press release issued by Saicom Trade Fairs & Exhibitions, the highlight of this year’s event is Technical awards Ceremony sponsored by Seagate International where “Seagate Technical Awards for Excellence in Digital technology in the field of Cinema and Television” will be given to the best professionals in this field.