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Dear Mr. Griffith, dear Collegium combatants, dear guests, dear viewers of the Open Channel Berlin!

Since the early days of the Open Channel Berlin's existence, The Collegium - Forum & Television Program Berlin has been a solid constituent of our television program and has therefore also been a solid constituent of Berlin's media landscape. Respect for this achievement.

With an agenda to trigger intercultural exchange through medial participation, The Collegium is more up-to-date, than ever before. Especially now, considering the increasing immigration to Germany and the visible demographic change here in the heart of the old continent.

Participation, co-determination, integration, diversity, and tolerance are, in this context, not only expressions that characterize your ambitious series, but also issues that the Open Channel Berlin stands for.

With the underlying basic principle to guarantee free speech and uncensored expression of opinion, open channels have always been trailblazers for what Web 2.0 platforms are today: a forum for people who communicate, participate, and represent themselves. A forum for people who voice their opinions and participate on a medial and a regional level. The access based on equal opportunities, the diversity of different programs and the medially competent support for our users, make the Open Channel Berlin an integrative and heterogeneous medium.

However, the media landscape has changed over time and so must and will the Open Channel Berlin. Therefore, we have been reforming our channel - by diverse means and step by step - since February 2008. This not only means a changed broadcast structure and the development of a new communicative appearance, but furthermore the wish to meet the increasing demands of our zeitgeist. In the future, we would not only like to broadcast via television and Internet, we would also like to be the trimedia platform for citizens' issues in Berlin. The new Open Channel is intended to be a respected and respectable member of Berlin's media landscape. Help us reach this goal.

We want to remain colorful, diverse, authentic, and straight-forward. We want to continue offering people the possibilities to understand media, learn to use them, and produce them themselves. And, above all, we would like to remain open towards various individuals and groups of people.

Particularly in a metropolis such as Berlin, which practices tolerance and openness to the world, the Open Channel Berlin can and must contribute and offer possibilities for participation. This, we will continue doing - in a new look, with even more creative diversity and charisma.

The Collegium - Forum & Television Program has long internalized these qualities. After the change process, we will be an even better partner for you with the claim of participation, co-determination, and tolerance. We look forward to our cooperation.

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