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INTERVIEW with the man who negociates buying Antena 3: 'I talked to Camelia Voiculescu'

STIRIPESURSE.RO presents, exclusively, an interview with the man who negociates buying Antena 3 by a group of investors.  Stylianos Syrmoglou talked about his meeting with Camelia Voiculescu, the owner of Antena Group.

Dr.Syrmoglou, our sources told us that you have developped an activity in Romania concerning a new Tv project. And there were some publications the last period relating to this activity of yours…

” First of all thank you for asking me about this activity of mine. I do understand that such a kind of activity in the field of Romanian Media market upraises a wave of interest, a barrage of rumors, a fusillade of speculations. And, no doubt, with the implementation of this huge business plan of the “Balkan Net”, a spectrum of criticism, even animosity from a part at least from the existing competition.

However, in a free economy market, there is always place for new ventures. And it is up to the public and to the advertisers to accept, sustain and maintain a new effort in the television industry.”

Have you had certain meetings and negotiations so far in Bucharest? We have been informed that you already had discussions…

”Non crypt under the sun! Yes, indeed. In my effort to implement as soon as possible the business plan of the Net, having the authorization from the group of the investors I represent, during the last months I had certain discussions and negotiations either in the USA with CME and Warner or in Balkan area countries with owners of Tv channels. I also met quite a few journalists and businessmen in Bucharest discussing the possibility of collaboration and developping the project in the most effective way, having already surveys with lots of revealing inferences for the “character” and the tendencies of the viewers as well as the potentiality and the needs of the advertisers.”

We have been told that one month ago you met Camelia Voiculescu and that you are interested in buying Antena 3 and for collaboration with Antena group…

”In the frame of my interest to accelerate the implementation of my business plan, the last months and in the same way I have done it successfully in other countries for the Balkan Net, I had discussions with existing Tv groups for collaboration or acquisition of Tv channels.

It is not a “secret” anyway. Yes, in August I had the pleasure of a two hours meeting with Mrs Camelia Voiculescu and Mr Sorin Alexandrescu at the premises of Antena Hroup, at Iride complex for discussing in the frame of my mentioned interest. It was a very interesting and constructive discussion with Mrs Camelia Voicolescu.

It was actually a first fruitful business acquaintance meeting and we had the chance to discuss a range of television issues of mutual interest, and have agreed that we will meet again in the very near future. No more, no less.”

Could you tell us a few words about the project “Balkan Net” and what does it bring into the Romanian television market?

”It is an exciting project and no doubt as a prospect for the Romanian media market could become a window on the world in a sense of surpassing anything has been known so far. And the Romanian public and national interests are quite “mature” to let it happen. The Net will operate Tv channels in Bucharest where the headquarters will be, in Sofia, Belgrade, Bratislava and Chisinau and later in Istanbul. The Tv channel based in Bucharest will have European specifications and typifications, giving emphasis not only to entertainment content, but to educational as well as to technical innovations of a kind that could alter the whole shape and scope of the existing practice of television making news and producing entertainment, at a time when quite a few Romanian Tv channels face problems more varied and potentially, perhaps more formidable than ever before.

It will make the difference by all means. Because it will invade in a closed media system which keeps the real “content” and the role of television far away from the modernization and the journalists captivated to an obsolete mentality and the news frame out of date and objectivity for obvious reasons.

I described recently the Romanian Tv, in a conversation of mine with a Romanian Tv CEO, as the “young woman in early old”, in a premature and precocious age in the sense that it is obvious the formal bureaucratic nature of news production, the “sameness” of the news from day to day in terms of structure, content and presentation. Another indication worthy to be said is that the Tv channels copy one another in ideas and programmes, confusing and at the same time limiting the advertising interest.

And, of course, the Romanian broadcast has not travelled a long way since Revolution and it is right to be argued that the proportion of news and the broadcasting programmes have more to do with institutional structure, political controls to a certain extent and furthermore with economic pressures.”

What do you think about journalism in Romania?

”Well, observing for long time as an outsider the television and the press inside out, and having many friends Romanian journalists, I could say in an assertive way that in the Romanian media industry there are efficient, skillful journalists with integrity and dignity. They are equals to their colleagues in any other European country.

However, what can be said, is that the majority of the journalists working in various media in the private sector are suffocating because of two main reasons:

First  of all, the pressures operating on their “neck” which in a way flatten their responsibilities and annihilate their inspiration and their “flair” to catch the real news. Those pressures have to do with the ownership and its eclectic relations with politics or economic interests of their own.

Secondly, the extensive lack of managerial ability of those running certain media, the “Homo Ignorants” as I characterize them, who apparently derive their “insolence” from their bosses and try to impose on journalists methods and policies, driving to based news, sometimes to “crap news” manipulating the common opinion in the most audacious manner. Journalists in their effort to survive, although trying to live in dignity, are often forced to be to marginalized or obliged to tolerate a handful of their own colleagues in managerial positions who have no idea of television management and avoid the journalistic ethics in the same way devil avoids the incense!”

 

 

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