Programme 2008: .PDF
The Eurovision Creative Forum is a content exchange and networking initiative reserved exclusively for public service broadcasters.
This unique forum offers EBU members & members from other PSB organizations worldwide the opportunity to trade TV formats, share production and studio facilities, and pool their creative potential. It is organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in close cooperation with ZDF and the Eurovision Formats Core Group (SVT, VRT, RTÉ, NPO, RTVSLO, BBC).
The third Eurovision Creative Forum (ECF) was held in Berlin on 23 September 2008. The programme contained over 25 presentations given by members. The Creative Forum includes PSBs from outside Europe, such as Asia.
The Eurovision Creative Forum delegates were invited to elect their 7 favourite programmes: the "7 Best".
The 2008 winners are:
· New Anatomy Show– NHK Japan – science entertainment
· How to– VRT Belgium – reality show
· The Speaker– BBC UK – factual entertainment
· My Funky Family– DR Denmark – children’s format
· Country Women’s Cooking– SF Switzerland – reality show
· Il Recuperatore– RAI Italy – reality show
· Open Newsroom– SVT Sweden – Internet journalism
This year the EBU will launch a distribution strategy for these "7 Best", by collecting expressions of interest at MIPCOM in October 2008.
 | "It is time to re-establish a European Public Service Entertainment and Factual Entertainment. EBU members have the creativity and the resources, now it is time to start talking to each other about how best to use it."
Markus Sterky
Content Strategist, SVT, Sweden |
 | "Public broadcasters need to have a platform to inspire each other in creating new and innovating formats. They need solidarity to achieve this and to protect their creative investments. The Creative Forum has to become an important tool to reach this aim."
Frank Symoens
Manager O2, Research & Development, VRT, Belgium
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 | "Isn't it exciting to see which new programmes where successful on public service television last season across europe? Let's get together and exchange views and ideas. I can't wait to meet you all in Berlin!"
Panagiotis Trakaliaridis
Strategic Programme Development, ZDF, Germany |
 | "The evolution of formats is good news for Public Broadcasting. There are many ideas which can easily be exchanged. In a short time the Creative Forum will make it possible to get a good overview of what recently has been developed by Public Broadcasting in Europe".
Roek Lips
Net Manager, NPO, The Netherlands
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 | “Having the opportunity of watching the new formats at one place is somehow a cultural event: through the formats you can feel the spirit of the country, you can see on the one hand how similar we are and on the other how different, although we consider ourselves as the inhabitants of the “global village.”
Natalija Gorcsak
Editor, RTVSLO, Slovenia |
 | "Television is an increasingly global, competitive business. In this challenge, public broadcasters coming together in a Creative Forum to confidently share our own skill and collective experience of satisfying audiences, is a bold and economic initiative."
Julian Vignoles
Deputy Commissioning Editor, Entertainment, RTÉ, Ireland |
 | "Formats attract big audiences the world over and they have an important role to play in public service broadcasting. But it's important to keep them fresh and relevant. The Creative Forum is proving to be an effective way of finding out about the best and most original formats of the moment."
David Morgenstern
Development Executive, BBC Entertainment, UK |
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