TV & VIDEO - Sept. 29, 1989

The nations of Eastern Europe and Western Europe join forces Saturday for three days to combat an onslaught of U.S. television serials and Japanese TV technology. About 1,500 producers, directors and engineers from 27 nations will gather in Paris to find ways of boosting European programs and television technology. “What would remain of our cultural identity if audiovisual Europe consisted of European consumers sitting in front of Japanese TV sets showing American programs?” France’s European Affairs Minister Edith Cresson said. Foreign ministers from the European Community and other West European nations plus the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia will use the meeting as a launch pad for joint production and distribution projects.