The events in the Vatican at the end of March and beginning of April 2005 (the death of Pope John Paul II, the funeral and the Conclave) had reduced the number of participants at the Prague seminar. This was a reason to organize in 2005 a second seminar for TV/Producers, in Lyon (France), in the context of the SIGNIS World Congress.
The link with the Congress increased the attendance up to over 50, with a number of participants coming even from the Pacific, from Asia, from Africa and Latin America.
Once again, the presentations of the different Catholic television institutions and of the production centres showed the large diversity of situations, from small entities in the Pacific or the Caribbean islands, to quasi public television stations like KRO in the Netherlands, with a large staff of over one hundred people. Not only the institutions were different in size, in range, but also in objectives and religious culture. Some television stations were of general interest, others were specifically religious. Some came from the initiative of a charismatic group, some were linked to a shrine, others were officially constituted by an Episcopal conference.
Peter Thomas presented the new pilot of the SIGNS Magazine. It was very well received. A discussion led to the preparation of a business plan in order to be able to produce a series of five magazines to be distributed amongst the Catholic television stations. Suggestions were made to find sponsors for the SIGNS Magazine.
Marcel Bauer showed some of the pictures and films he collected from the early times of the missions. His plan was to digitalize the best part of the archives and to offer it free of charge to the Catholic television stations and production centres.
Télé Lumière (Lebanon) and KTO (France) interviewed some participants and filmed the meeting for a news programme on their television station.
