17 Facts About EBU

EBU owns and operates the Eurovision and Euroradio telecommunications networks on which major television and radio broadcasts are distributed live to its members.

In 2017, the EBU launched the Eurovision Social Newswire, an eyewitness and video verification service.

EBU members are public service media broadcasters whose output is made, financed, and controlled by the public, for the public.

The EBU is a member of the International Music Council.

Eurovision Media Services is the business arm of the EBU and provides media services for many media organisations and sports federations around the world.

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Theme music played before and after every EBU broadcast is Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Prelude to Te Deum.

EBU was a successor to the International Broadcasting Union that was founded in 1925 and had its administrative headquarters in Geneva and technical office in Brussels.

Early delegates said EBU meetings were cordial and professional and very different from the abrupt tone of its predecessors.

EBU encourages active collaboration between its Members on the basis that they can freely share their knowledge and experience, thus achieving considerably more than individual Members could achieve by themselves.

Much of this collaboration is achieved through Project Groups which study specific technical issues of common interest: for example, EBU Members have long been preparing for the revision of the 1961 Stockholm Plan.

Many voices have been raised against the participation of Belarus and the BTRC in the otherwise unpolitical Eurovision Song Contest in 2021, the argument being that the EBU would make a political statement if it did endorse Belarus by essentially and silently saying that democracy is unimportant and so are basic human rights such as freedom of speech.

On 28 May 2021, the EBU suspended the BTRC's membership as they had been "particularly alarmed by the broadcast of interviews apparently obtained under duress".

Ukraine's public broadcaster UA:PBC called on the EBU to terminate the membership of Channel One Russia and VGTRK, and to consider preventing Russia from participating in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, citing the Russian government's use of both outlets to spread disinformation surrounding the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The EBU released a statement saying that it was aware of the reports, but that it had not received any formal confirmation.

List of Associate Members of EBU comprised the following 31 broadcasting companies from 20 countries as of January 2018.

Euroclassic Notturno is a six-hour sequence of classical music recordings assembled by BBC Radio from material supplied by members of the EBU and streamed back to those broadcasters by satellite for use in their overnight classical-music schedules.

Inaugural Eurovision Choir featuring non-professional choirs selected by EBU Members, took place on 22 July 2017 in Riga, hosted by the Latvian broadcaster Latvijas Televizija .