Luca Milano, Director of Rai Ragazzi (the kids area of Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana), has been elected in Geneva as the new chairperson of the “EBU Kids Media Experts group”, the European Broadcasting Union rallying the public broadcasters. Vanessa Amberleigh (BBC) and Yago Fandino Lousa (TVE) have been elected as deputies. The EBU Kids Media experts aim at fostering exchange and co-operation in the field of children offer.
“Faced with the expansion of great multinational media companies - said Luca Milano - the collaboration among European public broadcasters is more and more important especially in the area of kids’ content, in order to preserve diversity, promote national stories and talents, and pay attention to the changing educational patterns in our societies”.