DISCOP
Overview
 
DISCOP, originally founded in 1991 started as an audiovisual television content market for Eastern Europe. With the fall of the USSR, many countries went through a process of liberalization. The post-USSR transition period saw an bourgeoning media sector where content was needed but a structure was not in place to facilitate the growth. The DISCOP market (the name DISCOP originating from the two words: Discounted DISCO- and Programs -P ) was organized as a place for representatives of the audiovisual industry in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

  to be able to access discounted programs, where the prices to buy program rights where more in line with the capacity of the economies in the region.

With the same concept, establishing an audiovisual market in world regions where there are development possibilities for the audiovisual sector, an annual DISCOP television market was launched in 2009 for Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa as a geographical term refers to the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara. A political definition of Sub-Saharan Africa, instead, covers all African countries which are fully or partially located south of the Sahara...

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Quotations

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

As quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations (1997) edited by Peter Kemp, p. 303

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

Opening Lines

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.

"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."

Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

 
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