The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is a non-profit organization founded in 1950 and headquartered in Switzerland. It promotes public service media and has 115 member organizations in 56 countries, as well as 31 Associates in Asia, Africa, Australasia, and the Americas. The EBU operates Eurovision and Euroradio, and its main product is athletics and multi-discipline sports. As of 2021, the organization had 460 employees and generated less than $500 million in revenue.

2021 Revenue

Founded

1950

Headcount

455

Headquarters

Switzerland

Primary Segment

Spectator Sports

Ownership

Non-profit

News Summary:

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) hosted a webinar on Enterprise Architecture (EA) to help members address transformation challenges, providing a framework and best practices exchange. A blog published by the EBU explored the implications of adopting the US economic model, arguing that blindly following it could harm European public service broadcasters. Separately, the CBC, a member of the EBU, announced a project to refurbish its Toronto building for software-based media production. On an unrelated note, the Eurovision 2025 Semi-Final Draw took place on an unspecified date in Basel, Switzerland, with 37 broadcasters participating, allocated to semi-finals based on voting patterns. Finally, the EBU announced a News Contacts Meeting scheduled for May 26-28, bringing together delegates from various media sectors.

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European Broadcasting Union (EBU) offers 14 products in the media and telecoms services, media tech and sports industries. European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s product portfolio comprises of broadcast professional services, soccer and streaming services.
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European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s revenues were less than $500M in 2021. Caretta Research has split European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s revenue into 3 different product categories, the largest of which is multi-Sport. For full access to European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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European Broadcasting Union (EBU) sells broadcasting rights of its 11 multi-Sport, soccer | association football, cycling, athletics and biathlon competitions to 103 companies globally, covering 25 countries. European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s rights holders include RTL Group, BBC and France Télévisions. European Broadcasting Union (EBU) currently holds 52 broadcasting rights for sports competitions including water polo, gymnastics, futsal, motorsports, multi-sport, tennis, soccer | association football, cycling, other sports, biathlon, aquatics and swimming, athletics and basketball.

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