EBU 1950 – 2010: from shaky antennae to streaming sports live in HD

16 February 2010 23:47.

Everything and nothing has changed

On 12 February 1950 broadcast professionals from 23 countries came together in Britain’s southern coastal resort of Torquay to found the EBU as the post-WWII successor to the International Broadcasting Union. The EBU’s “most essential task” was defined as being the “defence of the interests of broadcasting in the technical and legal fields”. Has anything really changed in 60 years? >>>

64th EBU General Assembly will take place in Baku

16 February 2010 21:45.

At the 61st session of the General Assembly in November 2008, the EBU and its Members agreed to accept the kind invitation of Ictimai to host the 64th session of the General Assembly in Azerbaijan. At that session and in a subsequent letter, the former President of the EBU, Fritz Pleitgen, thanked Ictimai for its gracious offer and expressed his view that it would “be one of the most memorable general assemblies in the history of the EBU.” >>>