European Broadcasting Union, also known as EBU, is a non-profit organization headquartered in Switzerland. Founded in 1950, the organization has approximately 460 employees and reported $266.9M in revenue as of 2024. Functioning as a tier 1 media tech buyer, its main product involves content rights. The organization focuses on promoting public service media, serving 115 member organizations across 56 countries and an additional 31 Associates located in Asia, Africa, Australasia, and the Americas. It also operates Eurovision and Euroradio.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1950

Headcount

455

Headquarters

Switzerland

Primary Segment

Content rights

Ownership

Non-profit

Deployments

599

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On February 21, 2026, WFMT presented "Orchestras from the European Broadcasting Union," a program co-produced by the European Broadcasting Union and WFMT. Previously, on February 18, Britain named musician and inventor Sam Battle, known online as Look Mum No Computer for building DIY electronic instruments, as its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, with the BBC introducing the act. This follows the EBU Video Systems group's organization of test sessions with various HDR monitor vendors throughout 2024 and 2025, publishing the key results from these sessions in the public document EBU Tech Report 081 on February 16.

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European Broadcasting Union (EBU) offers 21 products in the media and telecoms services industry. European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s product portfolio comprises of content rights and media and TV services.
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European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s revenues were less than $500M in 2024. Caretta Research has split European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s revenue into 2 different product categories, the largest of which is sports sublicensing. For full access to European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Examples of European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s suppliers include Rohde & Schwarz, DAZN Group and NEP Group.

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European Broadcasting Union (EBU) sells broadcasting rights of its 2 sports sublicensing competitions to 15 companies globally, covering 2 countries. European Broadcasting Union (EBU)'s rights holders include Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. European Broadcasting Union (EBU) currently holds 68 broadcasting rights for sports competitions including futsal, biathlon, aquatics and swimming, other sports, rowing, winter sports, gymnastics, tennis, motorsports, soccer | association football, multi-sport, athletics, water polo, basketball, boxing and cycling.

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