European Broadcasting Union

The **European Broadcasting Union** (**EBU**), known in French as **Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision** (**UER**), and unrelated to the European Union, was formed on 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organisations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference in the coastal resort of Torquay in Devon, England. In 1993, the International Radio and Television Organisation (_OIRT_), an equivalent organisation of broadcasters from Central and Eastern Europe, was merged with the EBU.

### Full Members

- The names of the broadcasting companies not in Roman script are either in English or French, the official languages of the EBU.
|Country|Broadcasting organisation|National script|Abbr.|Year|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Albanian Radio and Television|_Radio Televizioni Shqiptar_|RTSH|1962|
||Entreprise nationale de télévision|المـؤسـسـة العمومية للتـلـفزيـون|ENTV|1970|
|Enterprise nationale de radiodiffusion|الإذاعة الجزائرية|ENRS|1970||
|Télédiffusion d'Algérie|تلفزيون لجزائر|TDA|1970||
||Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra|RTVA|RTVA|2002|
||Public Radio of Armenia|_Հայաստանի Հանրային Ռադիո_|ARMR|2005|
|Public Television of Armenia|_Հայաստանի հանրային հեռուստաընկերություն_|ARMTV|2005||
||Austrian Broadcasting|_Österreichischer Rundfunk_|ORF|1953|
||Public Television and Radio|_İctimai Televiziya və Radio Yayımları Şirkəti_|İTV|2007|
||Flemish Radio- and Television Network|_Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep_|VRT|1950|
|French Radio and Television of Belgium|_Radio-Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française_ || RTBF || 1950||||
||Radiotelevision of Bosnia & Herzegovina|_Radio-televizija Bosne i Hercegovine_ _Радио-телевизија Босне и Херцеговине_|| BHRT || 1993|||
||Bulgarian National Radio|_Българско национално радио_|BNR|1993|
|Bulgarian National Television|_Българска национална телевизия_|BNT|1993||
||Croatian Radiotelevision|_Hrvatska radiotelevizija_|HRT|1993|
||Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation|_Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου (Greek) Kıbrıs Yayın Kurumu (Turkish)_ || RIK/ CyBC || 1969|||
||Czech Radio|_Český rozhlas_|ČRo|1993|
|Czech Television|_Česká televize_|ČT|1993||
||Denmark's Radio|_Danmarks Radio AS_|DR|1950|
|TV2|_TV2 AS_|DK/TV2|1996||
||Egyptian Radio and Television Union|إتحاد الإذاعة و التليفزيون المصري|ERTU|1985|
||Estonian Public Broadcasting|_Eesti Rahvusringhääling_|ERR|1993|
||- Finnish Broadcasting Corporation - Swedish Broadcasting of Finland || _Yleisradio OY (Finnish) Rundradion AB (Swedish)_ || YLE/FST5 || 1950||||
|Commercial Channel 3|_Mainostelevisio 3_|MTV3|1993||
||- Télévision Française 1 - France Télévisions - Canal+ - Radio France - Radio France Internationale|| _Groupement des Radiodiffuseurs Français de l'UER_ || GRF || 1950||||
|Europe 1|_Europe 1_|E1|1978||
||Georgian Public Broadcasting|_საქართველოს საზოგადოებრივი მაუწყებელი_|GPB|2005|
||German National Broadcasting|_Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland_ || ARD || 1952|||
|Second German Television|_Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen_|ZDF|1963||
||Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation|_Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία Τηλεόραση_|ERT|1950|
||Hungarian Radio|_Magyar Rádió_|MR|1993|
|Hungarian Television|_Magyar Televízió_|HU/MTV|1993||
||National Broadcasting Service|_Ríkisútvarpið_|RÚV|1956|
||Irish Radio-Television|_Raidió Teilifís Éireann_|RTÉ|1950|
|Irish Language Television|_Teilifís na Gaeilge 4_|TG4|2007||
||Israel Broadcasting Authority|רָשׁוּת השׁידוּר|IBA|1957|
||Italian Broadcasting|_Radiotelevisione Italiana_|RAI|1950|
||Jordan Radio and Television Corporation|التلفزيون الأردني|JRTV|1970|
||Latvian Television|_Latvijas Televīzija_|LTV|1993|
|Latvian Radio|_Latvijas Radio_|LR|1993||
||Télé Liban|تلفزيون لبنان|TL|1950|
||Lithuanian National Radio and Television|_Lietuvos Radijas ir Televizija_|LRT|1993|
||CLT Multi Media|_Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion_|RTL|1950|
|Radio 100,7|_Radio 100,7_|ERSL|1996||
||Macedonian Radio-Television|_Македонска радио телевизија_|MKRTV|1993|
||Public Broadcasting Services|_Public Broadcasting Services_|MT/PBS|1970|
||Teleradio-Moldova|_Teleradio-Moldova_|TRM|1993|
||Radio Monte-Carlo|_Groupement de Radiodiffuseurs Monégasques_|TMC|1950|
||Radio Television of Montenegro|_Radio televizija Crne Gore Радио телевизија Црне Горе_ || RTCG || 2001|||
||Radiodiffusion et de Télevision Morocaine|الشركة الوطنبة للإذاعة والتلفرة|SNRT|1969|
||Netherlands Public Broadcasting|_Nederlandse Publieke Omroep_|NPO|1950|
||Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation|_Norsk Rikskringkasting AS_|NRK|1950|
|TV2|_TV2 AS_|NO/TV2|1992||
||Polish Television|_Telewizja Polska_|TVP|1993|
|Polish Radio|_Polskie Radio_|PR|1993||
||Radio and Television of Portugal|_Rádio e Televisão de Portugal_|RTP|1950|
||Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company|_Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune_|ROR|1993|
|Romanian Television|_Televiziunea Română_|TVR|1993||
||Channel One Russia|_Первый канал_|C1R|1993|
|Radio Dom Ostankino|_Радиодом Останкино_|RDO|1993||
|Russian State Television and Radio|_Всероссийская государственная телевизионная ирадиовещательная компания_ || RTR || 1993||||
||Radio-Television of San Marino|_Radiotelevisione della Repubblica di San Marino_|SMTV|1995|
||Radio Television of Serbia|_Радио-телевизија Србије_|RTS|2001|
||Radio Television of Slovakia|_Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska_|RTVS|2011|
||Radio-Television Slovenia|_Radiotelevizija Slovenije_|RTVSLO|1993|
||Spanish Radio-Television|_Corporación Radiotelevisión Española_|RTVE|1955|
|Spanish Society of Radio|_Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión_|SER|1982||
|People's Radiowaves of Spain|_Cadena de Ondas Populares de España_|COPE|1998||
||- Swedish Television - Swedish Radio - Swedish Educational Broadcasting - Swedish Factual Broadcasting || _Sveriges Television och Radio Grupp AB_ || SVT || 1950||||
|- TV4 - TV11 - Canal+ || _TV4 Gruppen AB_ || TV4 || 2004|||||
||Swiss Broadcasting Corporation - Swiss- German Radio and Television - Radio Télévision Suisse - Italian Radio and Television of Switzerland - Swiss- Romansh Radio and Television || SRG SSR _Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft (German) Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision (French) Società svizzera di radiotelevisione (Italian) Societad svizra da radio e televisiun (Romansh)_ || SRG SSR|| 1950||||
||Radiodifussion-Télévision Tunisienne|إنشاء محطة الإذاعة والتلفزيون التونسية|ERTT|1950|
||Turkish Radio and Television Corporation|_Türkiye Radyo-Televizyon Kurumu_|TRT|1950|
||National Television Company of Ukraine|_Національна телекомпанія України_|NTU|1993|
|National Radio Company of Ukraine|_Національна радіокомпанія України_|NRU|1993||
||- British Broadcasting Corporation|_British Broadcasting Corporation_|BBC|1950|
|- Independent Television - Channel 4 - Sianel 4 Cymraeg||_United Kingdom Independent Broadcasting Darlledu Annibynnus Deyrnas Gyfunol (Welsh)_ || UKIB || 1959|||
||Vatican Radio|_Radio Vaticana_|RV|1950|

## Future & Potential EBU Members

- Liechtenstein: currently Liechtenstein has no national television or radio station, but if they get one it will be possible for them to join the EBU (this technicality had affected them once before when they were not allowed to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969)
- Kosovo: RTK - currently an associate member
- Syria: ORTAS (Organisme de la Radio-Télévision Arabe Syrienne) - currently an associate member only
- Morocco: The second commercial channel of Morocco 2M TV have asked for membership to the EBU. It is still unknown if Morocco will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest or the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

## Other websites

- EBU Website

## Infobox (organization)

- **name**: European Broadcasting Union
Union européenne de radio-télévision
- **image**: EBU 2026.svg
- **caption**: Logo used since 2026
- **map**: EBU Member.svg
- **mcaption**: Countries with one or more members are in dark blue. Associated members in light blue.
- **type**: Union of broadcasting organisations
- **membership**: 73 active members
- **headquarters**: Geneva City, Geneva, Switzerland
- **formation**: 12 February 1950
- **website**: <div class="plainlinksneverexpand">http://www.ebu.ch/</div>