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The Nobel Prize
Every
year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for
achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or
medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize
is an international award administered by the Nobel
Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges
Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder
of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal,
personal diploma, and a cash award.
Nobel
Media
On
September 20, 2004, the Nobel Foundation decided to
have a firmer grip on its media rights and established
Nobel Media AB, a media company which will own, produce
and develop new media rights connected with the Nobel
Prize.
Nobel
Media has three main objectives: to develop the Nobel
programmes and find new formats, to increase international
distribution of Nobel programmes, and to strengthen
control over, with an aim to protect, the trademarks
and immaterial rights of the Nobel Foundation.
During
its first year, Nobel Media worked on the TV rights
of already well known Nobel programmes such as the
Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and Banquet, Nobel Minds,
documentaries and portraits of the Nobel Laureates.
After
extensive negotiations with numerous TV producers,
Nobel Media chose Sveriges Television (Swedish Television)
as principal producer of the first series of Nobel
programmes for 2004-2006, and to continue as one of
its world distributors.
Nobel
Media has also selected IMG (International Management
Group) and TWI as its international partners, working
primarily with sponsorships and distribution of the
programmes to international channels.
In
2005, Nobel Media is launching the Nobel Prize Concert,
an annually recurring classic concert concept of the
finest international class, following in the tradition
of the Jubilee Concert held in the 1990s and the Centennial
Concert in 2001 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary
of the Nobel Prize. To be held at the Stockholm Concert
Hall, the event honors the year's Nobel Laureates,
in the presence of the Laureates and their parties,
Sweden's Royal Family and the Nobel Foundation's guests.
The general public is also invited to attend. World-renowned
cellist Yo-Yo Ma, famous interpreter of the classic
cello repertoire and Founder-Artistic Director of
the boundary-breaching Silk Road Project, and who
performed the music for Ang Lee's film "Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon," is the first soloist of
this newly-established Nobel programme.
More
information can be obtained from:
Camilla Hyltén-Cavallius, Managing Director,
Nobel Media AB telephone +46 8 663 14 83
Websites
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