Conference for public television INPUT 2009
- 18.05.2009, 9:31
A conference for national public television INPUT 2009 was held in Warsaw on May 10–15. A representative of the Charter’97 website took part in this event as a delegate.
The newest and most interesting projects of TV programs created on order of public television around the world were presented at the conference held in a Central/Eastern European country for the first time. The conference consists of showing programs and discussions with the projects’ authors. INPUT is also a place where people from different countries can exchange their views and experience. More than 600 people representing 50 different TV stations took part in INPUT 2009.
The INPUT conference was organized by Telewizja Polska SA and the city of Warsaw. As their statement says, the organizers try their best for the conference held on the 20th anniversary of Polish independence and the fall of communism to be the most powerful and important information event in public life of Poland and Central/Eastern Europe.
INPUT gathers representatives of public TV channels, creative teams, independent authors, directors, and producers, representatives of electronic media and culture every year in different countries.
As INPUT President Noemi Schory told at a meeting with representatives of Central/Eastern European countries, “This year, along with television journalists from all over the world, we’d like to attract as many representatives of public television and independent authors from post-communist countries as possible to international television cooperation and invite them to take part in the conference in Warsaw.”
The idea of INPUT was born 30 years ago. At the same time INPUT was created. The organization holds currently the most important conferences for public television once a year.
INPUT was born of an idealist conviction that public television can change the world, serves the public good, and can promote basic values such as: human rights, tolerance, respect for others, and understanding the needs of others. These values were consonant with values and ideals of people struggled for freedom and independence of Poland and other countries of the former eastern bloc. Poland, as a country giving birth to democratic changes on political arena that led to the round table in 1989 and fall of the Berlin Wall, celebrates the 20th anniversary of gaining national independence for the whole year 2009.
The Polish Public Television (Telewizja Polska S.A.), an organizer of INPUT 2009 in Warsaw, is a leader on the Polish television market with a share of 48.4% and one of the leaders among the EU public channels. TVP has been supporting Belsat TV promoting development and strengthening democratic values in Belarus since December 10, 2008.