Public Broadcasting international 2007 results. Exhibition and exhibition business news for Ukraine and all over the world

October, 10-12, Korea: KBS welcomed specialists to PBI conference 2007 in Seoul to discuss the future of public service broadcasting. Now organizers are experiencing the most drastic changes in broadcasting. In the surging wave of digitalization, both audiences and TV are breaking out of conventional way of communication.

This poses challenges for public broadcasters. What is the role of public broadcaster in the future of digitalized broadcasting of numerous choices? Do we have to compromise and be a voice among thousands of many? Or should we strive to adhere to the conventional role?

PBI 2007 in Seoul was truly great opportunity to think over the most immediate issues we are facing now. It provides an occasion to discuss and look ahead the broadcasting of tomorrow. It is particularly significant that, for this year, PBI was hosted by KBS, one of the founding members of PBI.

For the last 15 years, PBI’s annual conference has debated a wide variety of such topics among them the relationship between public broadcasters and government; the accountability of public broadcasters; public money and public broadcasters; and the role of public broadcasters in the age of technological development. Since its inception by a group of broadcasters in 1990 in Toronto, PBI has gone from strength to strength with the host member changing each year.

Exhibition details on www.publicbroadcastersinternational.org.