audio-visual sector

This takeover was supported by a major effort to develop the audio-visual sector.

For those in the audio-visual sector, this is a situation which has worsened, not improved.

The audio-visual sector, for example, is a booming market.

The audio-visual sector is of the utmost importance to competitiveness, employment, and culture, too, in Europe.

Digitalisation is a challenge that the European audio-visual sector needs in order to develop its ability for innovation.

TF1 was going to be the cornerstone of the audio-visual sector of Hachette.

Commissioner Reding provided a very convincing argument for not making a new proposal for the audio-visual sector.

AV magazine AV magazine was launched in 1972 for the professional audio-visual sector.

These figures alone should be enough to illustrate that the conventional television market, which only covers a small part of the overall audio-visual sector, is a major growth sector.

It is therefore ridiculous that Member States who do not want this are denying this Parliament any say because they are afraid of changes to the audio-visual sector.

"In addition, China continues to maintain hidden quotas and non-transparent regulations that effectively keep U.S. intellectual-property products, especially in the audio-visual sector, out of the Chinese market," it said.

The process of gauging public opinion therefore needs to be carried out openly, in a way that takes account of both experts in the audio-visual sector and the views of the public.

Successively, the company puts one foot in the audio-visual sector with Havas creating chain television Canal + in 1984, and then creates SFR, first French private telephony operator.

What makes the MEDIA programme so extraordinarily important is the fact that the audio-visual sector is, as we are all aware, one of the fastest growing economic sectors not only in Europe, but throughout the world.

Mr. Lagardere, a charismatic leader who had been named executive of the year in 1979 by L'Expansion magazine, brought in a younger management team, invested $100 million retooling printing facilities and created an audio-visual sector.

In the USA, more recently, all the new ideas in the audio-visual sector have originated from television, rather than from Hollywood, as in the past; one may take the television series '24' as an example.

Madam President, I would like to inform the House that, as a substantial rightholder in the audio-visual sector, I have a direct financial interest in the issue before the House and will accordingly be abstaining throughout.

Nevertheless, the report indicates that when it comes to trade in television programmes, Europe has a deficit with the United States of some USD 2.9 billion, while the overall deficit of the audio-visual sector is some USD 6.6 billion.

However, it also makes it clear that we need to embark as quickly as possible on a new review of the TWF directive, if we are to keep pace with the fast-moving developments in the audio-visual sector in a time of increasing digitalisation.

Finally, it is very important to reiterate what Mrs Pack said about having a long term strategy for the audio-visual sector in the European Union, a long term coordinated and integrated strategy that allows us to benefit from each other's strengths in every Member State.

Whilst we have an interest, in the context of the GATS negotiations, in cautiously extending the scope of services, we insist on the cultural and organisational diversity of Europe, as reflected in the area of health, education, the audio-visual sector, and the local provision of services of general interest.