European Union of radio-television

The European Union of radio-television ( UER ), in English European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) is the most important professional association of national broadcasters in the world with (in 2004) 74 active members in 54 countries of Europe, North Africa and the the Middle East, and 44 associated members in 25 countries of other areas of the world.

Founded in 1950 by the pioneers of the radio and television in Western Europe, it amalgamated in 1993 with the OIRT, the old union of the broadcasters of Eastern Europe.

Installed in Geneva, it acts for the account of its members, negotiates the rights of diffusion of the sporting great events, exploits the networks Eurovision and Euroradio.

The Union also organizes exchanges of programs, stimulates and coordinates coproductions, provides all the services operational, commercial, technical, legal and strategic useful to its members. In Brussels, the office of the UER represents the interests of the broadcasters of public service near the European institutions.

The UER collaborates narrowly with the unions sisters of the other continents: the ABU (Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union), the NABA (North American Broadcasters' Association), the URTNA (Union of the radios and national televisions of Africa), the ASBU (Arab States Broadcasting Union) and the OTI (Organización of Televisión Iberoamericana).

Members of the UER

European members

Non-European members

Projects

EPISODE

From 1996 to 1998, this project aimed to inform on the problems relating to integration of RDS-TMC in the systems of broadcasting on line. It is arisen the need for adopting systems and methods of broadcasting commun runs, in particular for a compatibility with the European languages, the formats of data for coding of the localizations (ALERT C and ALERT+) and to the data dictionary DATEX.

B/TPEG

The project Transport Protocol Experts Group , of 1997 to 2000, gathered certain actors concerned with the road information like the broadcasters, the manufacturers of electronic material and the operators of transmission for the installation of common protocols of communication (TPEG). These protocols are an improvement of the protocol RDS-TMC for the systems DAB.

The protocols are:

• TPEG-PTI for information on public transport;
• TPEG-RTM for the messages on the road traffic;
• TPEG-SNI for information on the service and the network.

See too

External bond

• Internet site of the UER

Simple: European Broadcasting Union