Yuri Aksyuta: Channel helps character he created

To change the format of the competition "Five Stars" change we spoke with Yuri Aksyutov, Director, Music Broadcast Channel. - Why was it necessary to change the format of the competition of Russian show business in the format of "New Wave"? - This is not the format of the "New Wave". Come in Jurmala singer from Israel, America, Spain, is an international competition in the broadest sense of the word. We have a contest, "Five Stars" - a competition, the CIS and the Baltic States. Countries of the former Soviet Union - the common cultural space, where people are more aware of each other, where relationships and blended families. This common space, such as the "Euro Vision" is carried out for the European countries. We have decided to continue this mutual relationship, appealed to these 14 countries and have a common interest in the answer. Nothing channel to local, national selection for the "Five Stars" has not. The selection is at the level of national broadcasters in the CIS and Baltic countries - is the National Television of Ukraine, Belarus and other countries, a kind of analogue of the first channel. Each of them then delegates its member firms jury. 15 countries - the 15 members of the jury. Jury President - Joseph Kobzon, whose candidacy has caused no doubt all countries. The jury will be decent professionals, for example planned from Azerbaijan Polad Bulbuloglu. Yuri Aksyuta on Russian team for the "Five Star 2008" - no coordination with the selection there? - Of course we try to ensure that competition is not arrived 15 girls, for example, or 15 guys. At this level - Yes, we are trying to compete with many. Take but for other countries, we can not. Today we visited a girl from Belarus. We did not listen to them because they can not represent Russia, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus. - The winner selects only the jury? - We need public vote, the winner will receive the Audience Award. In all countries, we will arrange telephone voting, each country will have its own phone number where you can call a local service. - If the "Five Stars" to win, for example, the Kyrgyz actor - Channel in the future it will also support, as the winners of previous competitions? - Of course we will support. What distinguishes the first channel from the rest? The fact that all of the characters that we are born with their projects - "Star Academy" or "Survivor" - never throw. We help put them on! And what the young performers, to the 15 countries in the future, we invite declare the winners in their next projects - concerts, TV shows, etc. And we have no right to take away, do not have fixed contracts have been signed. We are doing another - we help the hero, who have themselves created. For more information about the new rules and the first Russian selection here. Vadim Ponomarev, NEWSmusic.ru Photo - Svetlana Maltsev, photoPaparazzi.ru