One of the big issues at this year's TV festival in Edinburgh is the effect of on-demand content, undermining any conventional notion of programme scheduling.

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"The problem for G4S has been in allocating personnel through their scheduling programme to particular venue security tasks, " she explained.

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They will increasingly control their own scheduling, with personal video recorders and an electronic programme guide, which viewers can instruct to record all the week's comedy, say, or gardening shows.

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Scheduled for discussion were a wide range of topics relating to the current situation of the Organization, its financial status and questions concerning the implementation of the roadmap, ongoing preparations for the next Medium Term Strategy and Programme and Budget, the current moves to reorganize certain corporate services and matters relating to the scheduling of meetings during sessions of the Governing Bodies.

UNESCO: Paris, 11.12.2012