The European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ; ) is the world's foremost alliance of public service media entities, comprising 74 Active Members in 56 countries and 37 Associate Members from a further 22 countries.

Members of the EBU are radio and television companies, most of which are government-owned public service broadcasters or privately owned stations with public service missions.

The objective of the EBU's technical activities is simply to assist EBU Members ( see below ) in this period of unprecedented technological changes.

This includes provision of technical information to Members via conferences and workshops, as well as in written form ( such as the EBU Technical Review, and the EBU tech-i magazine ).

The EBU also encourages active collaboration between its Members on the basis that they can freely share their knowledge and experience, thus achieving considerably more than individual Members could achieve by themselves.

Much of this collaboration is achieved through Project Groups which study specific technical issues of common interest: for example, EBU Members have long been preparing for the revision of the 1961 Stockholm Plan.

) ensures interoperability between products from different vendors, as well as facilitating the exchange of programme material between EBU Members and promoting " horizontal markets " for the benefit of all consumers.

See European Broadcasting Union: Specification of the Broadcast Wave Format ( EBU Technical document 3285, July 1997 ).

DVB standards are maintained by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium with more than 270 members, and they are published by a Joint Technical Committee ( JTC ) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization ( CENELEC ) and European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ).

* MXF-a progress report EBU Technical Review, 2010 Q3

* MXF — a technical overview EBU Technical Review, 2010 Q3

The EBU Technical Committee launched a project at its 1974 Paris meeting to develop a technology with similar purposes to ARI, but which was more flexible and which would enable automated retuning of a receiver where a broadcast network transmitted the same radio programme on a number of different frequencies.

* EBU Technical paper on HDTV formats

* A 10-page article " DVB-H — the emerging standard for mobile data communication " from the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) Technical Review

* A collection of articles on DVB ( including DVB-H & DVB-SH ) in the archive of EBU Technical Review

Most EBU broadcasters have a group deal to carry the Olympics and FIFA World Cup ( particularly, the games of their country and the Final ).

Concerts have been broadcast to the EBU, the first was Guttorm Guttormsen's quintet ( 1974 ),

2M TV, is currently applying for EBU membership and should this be granted, the broadcaster would have the option of entering the contest.

For these reasons, a set of subjectively valid measurement techniques have been devised and incorporated into BS, IEC, EBU and ITU standards.

It has been widely promulgated by the EBU and by EBUTA in particular, but the exact form is used mainly by those who have learned their bridge recently and those who taught them.

The abbreviation SVT is said to have been chosen since STV was already occupied by Scottish Television in the EBU.

The HD-MAC standard was abandoned in 1993, and since then all EU and EBU efforts have focused on the DVB system ( Digital Video Broadcasting ), which allows both SDTV and HDTV.

With the help of the Swedish Musicians ' Union she later contacted the EBU in an attempt to have Scooch's entry disqualified from the competition.

Since joining the EBU respectively, all of the ex-Yugoslav countries have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia.

The theme music played before EBU broadcasts is Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Prelude to Te Deum.

Another important EBU programme is Jeux Sans Frontières.

Because one of the organization's most important rules is that every fighter that fights for an EBU title must be a national and a resident of a European country, and all fights must be held in Europe, it became very hard, if not almost impossible, for the European Boxing Union to stage fights.

During the 1990s, the EBU had some important developments, such as beginning to recognize women's boxing regional championship bouts, and welcoming former Yugoslavian country Bosnia and Herzegovina as a member country.

Currently, winning an EBU title is considered important, but not necessary, by many European boxers in order to go on and fight for a world title of the four most widely recognized world championship boxing organizations, the IBF, WBO, WBA and WBC.

The EBU has also actively encouraged the development and implementation of:

The Lindos sequence test system is now a ' de-facto ' standard in broadcasting and many other areas of audio testing, with over 25 different segments recognized by Lindos test sets, and the EBU standard is no longer used.

Kukko represented YLE ( Finnish broadcasting company ) in the EBU Big Band in Sarajevo ( 1976 ) and participated many radio and festival Big Bands which anticipated the UMO Big Band.

During most of the 20th century, and, specially, during that era's first decades, the EBU recognized many world title fights.

Other rules are also imposed on EBU recognized events, but not many of the EBU rules interfere with the fighting rules to be followed during the fight itself.

However they were unable to take part after the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) decided that too many countries would be relegated if the country took part.

EBU logo used from the 1990s to 2012

The EBU ( European Broadcasting Union ) standard frame rate of 25 frame / s is used throughout Europe, Australia and wherever the mains frequency is 50 Hz, and the PAL or SECAM television standards are used.

This is considered, by some audiophiles, to be a higher quality connection than the commonly used AES / EBU or Toslink or S / PDIF standards.

An alternative EBU recommendation allows 24 dB of headroom, which might be used for 24-bit master recordings where it is useful to allow more room for unexpected peaks during live recording.

* EBU R68 is used in most European countries, specifying + 18 dBu at 0 dBFS

Technicolor Netherlands, the company responsible for the technical realisation of the broadcasts of the NPOs television and radio channels, began the summer 2008 test broadcast of Nederland 1 HD in 720p / 50 as the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) recommends.

The contest's scrutineer, Svante Stockselius, met with Wallace and was sympathetic to his cause but informed him that Lovely could not enter the Contest as it has no national television or radio station of its own and therefore could not join the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ).