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EURALVA - The European Alliance of Listeners' and Viewers' Associations

Members of EURALVA

More detailed information on each of the members of Euralva is available further down the page, or by using the link from the table.

Country Members
Denmark flag of Denmark SLS, Cooperative Forum of Danish Listeners and Viewers Associations
Finland flag of Finland Kansan Radioliitto Ry
Finland flag of Finland Pro Yleisö Ry
Germany flag of Germany Initiativkreis für Öffentlichen Rundfunk
Norway flag of Norway Norway - Family & Media
Portugal flag of Portugal AC Media, Associacao Portuguesa de Consumidores dos Media
Spain flag of Spain FIATYR/iCmedia
UK flag of UK Voice of the Listener & Viewer

Associate Members

Associate Members Country
Australia flag of Australia Friends of the ABC
Canada flag of Canada Friends of Canadian Broadcasting

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Full Members of EURALVA

Denmark - SLS

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SLS is the umbrella group for four listener and viewer organisations in Denmark. It has about 50,000 individual members as well as many group members (Christian organisations, national trade unions etc.) The Chairman of SLS is Lars Peter Melchiorsen, who is also Chairman of the member organisation KLF Church & Media.

Contact Details for Denmark

SLS-secretariat:

Præstevænget 12, 1.sal.
2750 Ballerup
Denmark


Tlf. 00 45 33 79 12 30
Fax. 00 45 33 79 12 80


Lars Peter Melchiorsen Chairman:


Phone: 0045 74 83 05 70
Office: 0045 86 62 74 66


e-mail: lpm@klf.dk


www.samarbejdsforum.dk



Finland - Kansan Radioliitto Ry

Contact Details for Finland

Kansan Radioliitto Ry

Esa Ylikoski Chariman

Tlf. +358 50 4685332
e-mail esa.ylikoski@humak.edu

www.kansanradioliitto.fi

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Finland - Pro Yleisö Ry

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Pro Yleisö Ry was founded and registrated in the city of Tampere in November 2003. It started back then as a popular movement to protest against the "Big Bang" of Finnish Brodcasting that was happening.

By April 2005 this organisation achieved 150 members, and it is careing for public financing and quality of programs.

photo of Finland2 demonstration

Contact Details for Finland

Hannu Lilja (Pro Yleisö Ry Chairman)

Ritva Penttonen (Secretary)

Email: ritva.penttonen@welho.com


www.proyleiso.org

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Germany - Initiativkreis für Öffentlichen Rundfunk

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The Initiative for the Promotion of Public Service Broadcasting (Initiativkreis für Öffentlichen Rundfunk Köln; IOER) is based in Cologne. It supports diverse and high-quality public and public service broadcasting, independent from economic and political interests, and funded by voluntary and compulsory funding.

IOER organises public events and seminars as well as publishing written material and issuing statements. The organisation is made up of thirty experts, most of whom are former broadcasting professionals and academics. It also cooperates with two other similar organisations in Germany; one in Berlin and one in Munich.

Contact Details for Germany

Dr. Manfred Kops ( President IÖR)

Hohenstaufenring 57a,
50674 Köln,
Germany
Tel. +49-221-9171888

www.ioer.org

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Norway - Family & Media

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Family & Media, is one of Europe's largest listener and viewer associations. It has over 25,000 individual members and 30 group members (churches, missions etc.) It aims to represent the interests of its members by playing an active role in public life through commentaries in the press, and on radio and television. Its internet newsletter 'Medier & Nett' is widely quoted in the Norwegian press.

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Dr. Geir Magnus Nyborg is the General Secretary of Family & Media. He holds a doctoral degree in Media Science from the University of Bergen. Nyborg has worked as a journalist and editor in Norway and Latin America, and was Associate Professor at Norwegian Teacher Academy in Bergen until he joined Family & Media in 2001.

Contact Details for Norway

www.fom.no
www.barnevakten.no

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Portugal

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ACMedia - Association of Portuguese Media Consumers is a non-profit organisation founded in 1986 that is recognised as a public interest institution formed to, protect media consumers' rights and legitimate interests; promote respect for human, cultural and ethical values; Implement activities of civic, cultural and educational nature; prompt the promulgation of adequate laws to defend media consumers and alert public opinion to participate in media regulation process.

ACMedia set up Media Observatories in Europe and Middle East to hold a permanent-watching brief over the information society, besides allowing an evaluation both of market and consumer changes.

ACMedia co-ordinates the project Education for Media which has got a specific educational side and is mainly directed at students, parents, teachers and other specialists in Education. Also founded the International Universities Forum a permanent platform allowing the exchange of initiatives that aim to promote a better ethical and technological preparation for future media professionals. Professors and scientists from different countries compose its members.

Dr Nuno von Amann de Campos

Contact Details for Portugal

ACMedia - Associação Portuguesa de Consumidores dos Media
Dr Nuno von Amann de Campos (President)
R. de Sto. Antonio a Estrela, 108 - R/C Dto. 1350-294 Lisboa
 
Telephone number: (351) 21 882 1733 /21 882 1735
Fax: (351) 21 882 1734
Email: acmedia@acmedia.pt

Website: www.acmedia.pt

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Spain  

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"iCmedia (Initiatives for the Quality of the Audiovisual Media) is a Federation of consumers and users of audiovisual media founded in 1991 under the name of FIATYR.

Among its objectives it is worth pointing out the following:

- To collaborate in the improvement of the quality of contents by establishing an open relationship
among producers, issuers and users

- To represent the interests of the audiovisual mass media consumers and users

- To contribute to the development of strong local and autonomous associations

- And finally, to become a reliable reference for families in everything concerning the audiovisual offer, particularly when children and young people are involved.

Contact details for Spain

D. Iñigo Millán- Astray (President)D Inifo Millan Astray

Dr. Nuno von Amann de Campos (Vice-President)

ICmedia - Initiatives for the Quality of the Audiovisual Media
Rufino Blanco nº 8- 3º B
28028 Madrid
Spain

Telephone and Fax Number / (34) 91 355 41 74
Email: info@icmedianet.org
Web: www.icmedianet.org

Dña. Ana Muñoz (Directora de Comunicación)


 

United Kingdom - VLV

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Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV) founded in 1983 by Jocelyn Hay is an independent, non-profit-making association, funded by its members, democratically governed, and free from political, sectarian or commercial affiliations.

photo of Jocelyn Hay

As the only organisation in the UK speaking for listeners and viewers on the full range of issues which underpin the British broadcasting system: the structures, regulation, funding and institutions VLV campaigns for high quality radio and television programmes, and in particular for the principles of public service broadcasting.

Contact Details for UK - VLV

Voice of the Listener & Viewer
101 King's Drive, Gravesend
Kent.
DA12 5BQ
UK

Telephone: 01474 352835
Fax: 01474 351112
Email: info@vlv.org.uk

www.vlv.org.uk

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Associate Members of EURALVA

Australia - Friends of the ABC

Friends of the ABC (FABC) states its aim as

to defend and promote the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in its vital role as Australia's independent, national broadcaster. We inevitably believe that price mechanism and market forces are not capable of consistently or efficiently providing a stable and trustworthy broadcaster of quality services. Further the ABC should be able to broadcast the full range of media services, not just compensate for particular inadequacies of the private media.
(Roger Raven, President of the Western Australian FABC, in his speech to VLV's 9th International Conference, April 2004).

Every State and Territory in Australia has an FABC organisation. Each is autonomous, with all but one being run by volunteers. Its main focus has long been on the inadequate funding of the ABC and finding a better means of appointing people to the ABC board. It has also, more recently, become more involved in issues such as cross-media ownership and active defence of the ABC against political attack. It lobbies politicians, organises rallies and issues press releases, in order to raise public awareness of the difficulties faced by ABC.

FABC National Conference - Sunday morning - 7 September 2003
L to R: (standing) Roger Raven (Pres - WA), Margaret O'Connor (Pres - ACT), Don Sinnamon (Pres - Qld), Karen Treanor (WA), Michael Becker (SA), Terry Laidler (Pres - Vic) (sitting) Gary Cook (Pres - NSW), Michael White (SA), Joan Laing (SA), Glenys Stradijot (Vic), Darce Cassidy (Pres - SA)., Peter Shorne (SA)

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Website: www.friendsoftheabc.org


Canada - FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting

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Formed in 1985, FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting is an independent, Canada-wide, non-partisan voluntary organization supported by 60,000 households whose mission is to defend and enhance the quality and quantity of Canadian programming in the Canadian audio-visual system. FRIENDS serves as a watchdog on behalf of listeners and viewers, and intervenes to defend and enhance Canadian programming in the audio-visual system.

photo of Morrison photo of Noreen

FRIENDS relies upon individuals for donations to finance its watchdog role, public policy initiatives, public opinion leadership and research activities directed at our priorities. We are not affiliated with any broadcaster or political party. FRIENDS is a not-for profit organization directed by a Steering Committee. Noreen Golfman, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Memorial University, chairs our Steering Committee and Ian Morrison is our spokesperson and manager of ongoing operations.

Contact Details for Canada - Friends of Canadian Broadcasting

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
Box 200/238
131 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 1R8
Fax: (416) 968-7406
Email: friends@friends.ca

Website: www.friends.ca


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EURALVA - The European Alliance of Listeners' and Viewers' Associations