The European Broadcasting Union has expanded its FIFA World Cup rights package to cover Azerbaijan, Iceland and Malta for the 2026 and 2030 tournaments, bringing İctimai, RÚV and PBS into […]
EBU wins Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games rights across continental Europe
Fondazione Milano Cortina has awarded exclusive continental European media rights for the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), excluding Italy and the UK.
EBU wins best IBC 2025 Technical Paper
The EBU’s Alexis Allemann, Sebastien Noir and HEIG-VD-professor Andrei Popescu-Belis have been awarded the prestigious Best Technical Paper at IBC2025 for their work on developing a groundbreaking AI-powered chatbot designed […]
Shivani Wadhwa appointed as EBU Director of Human Resources
Shivani Wadhwa has been appointed as the new Director of Human Resources at the EBU.
70th Eurovision Song Contest heading to Vienna in 2026
Austria’s capital Vienna has been selected by host broadcaster ORF and the EBU to host the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in May 2026.
EBU and World Rowing extend media rights partnership
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and World Rowing, the international governing body of the sport of Rowing, have announced the renewal of their European media rights agreement starting in 2025 […]
EBU urges EU states to enforce new media freedom safeguards
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has urged EU member states to ensure the newly enacted European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) delivers on its promise to safeguard independent and pluralistic media.
EBU urges Europe to build trusted AI and cloud infrastructure to safeguard media sovereignty
The European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) Technical Assembly has called for the development of sovereign, interoperable, resilient, and sustainable Cloud and AI infrastructure to support public service media across Europe.
Media outlets worldwide join call for AI companies to help protect news integrity
Thousands of public and private news media around the world have joined an initiative by the European Broadcasting Union and WAN-IFRA calling on AI developers to help ensure that Artificial […]
EBU launches initiative to combat misinformation and support trusted news
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has launched Eurovision News Spotlight, a collaborative network for fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT) to equip public service media across Europe with tools to counter […]