CREATING COMMUNITIES THE BENEFITS OF EBU MEMBERSHIP Photo Credit: AFP Credit: Photo EBU, OPERATING EUROVISION AND EURORADIO OUR MISSION: TO MAKE PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA INDISPENSABLE The EBU is the world's foremost alliance of public service media organizations, with Members in 56 countries in Europe and beyond. The EBU's mission is to defend the interests of public service media and to promote their indispensable contribution to modern society. The EBU is a world-renowned benchmark of media industry knowledge and expertise, particularly in broadcast technology and innovation, training, research and European media law. The EBU operates EUROVISION and EURORADIO. EUROVISION is the name under which the EBU produces and distributes top-quality live sport and news, as well as entertainment, culture and music content. Through EUROVISION, the EBU provides broadcasters with on-site facilities and services for major world events in news, sport and culture. EURORADIO is the name under which the EBU enhances and promotes public service radio to ensure that it remains a key protagonist in a multimedia world. This is achieved through the exchange of music, professional networking and the active promotion of digital and hybrid radio. The EUROVISION and EURORADIO broadcasting network, which combines satellite and fibre, is the largest and most reliable in the world directly plugged in to public service media everywhere. www.ebu.ch and www.eurovision.com EBU Creating Communities 1 A SOLID ALLIANCE The European Broadcasting Union Few organizations can boast (EBU) is a uniquely powerful 74 Members in 56 countries that association whose mission it is to speak with one voice. The great safeguard the indispensable role that majority of us have backgrounds public service media (PSM) play in our in public service broadcasting. lives. We are drawn from more than 40 nationalities. We communicate in over 25 languages. We are technicians, As a valued Member, you belong to the most influential journalists, engineers, lawyers and support staff whose media community in the world. experience mirrors your own. Evolving technologies, media convergence, editorial The expertise we embody, the technical standards independence and delivering inspirational content are we pursue, the content we coordinate and exchange among our common challenges − challenges being met – everything is guided by our mission to make public and mastered. service media indispensable. The digital age raises the expectations of media We work for you, our Members. You work for the public, consumers, just as it raises the level of the services that your audiences. Our success is dependent on yours. we provide. Our goal is to help you make important savings yet still provide audiences with outstanding, This is why our Members are an integral element of multiplatform service. our governance structure, to ensure their needs are correctly identified and the right services are provided in Our common, binding values distinguish us in the digital response. age. We serve society, not shareholders and profits. We embody the principle that "the whole is greater Our commitment wins us international affection and than the sum of its parts", assisting and representing respect. It is a position of rare privilege that we strive to Members, collectively and individually, in as many ways deserve and will never take for granted. as are necessary. Jean-Paul Philippot This brochure is a declaration of our commitment. EBU President Ingrid Deltenre EBU Director General 2 EBU Creating Communities 3 CONTENTS What follows in these pages is a guide to the many services we provide to our Members. 05 37 EXCLUSIVE CONTENT A UNION OF EQUALS – SPORT: WE KNOW OUR RIGHTS – GOVERNANCE – MUSIC: WORKING IN CONCERT – EBU ORGANIZATION CHART – NEWS: IT’S MAKE OR BREAK – DRIVING VALUE – COPRODUCTIONS: MORE FOR LESS – JOINING UP 15 46 EXPERTISE AND GUIDANCE OFFICES AND SUBSIDIARIES – MAKING TECHNOLOGY WORK – NAVIGATING THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE 48 – YOUR PERSONAL TRAINER EBU ACTIVE AND ASSOCIATE – INSIDER KNOWLEDGE MEMBERS – CREATING COMMUNITIES 50 27 GLOBAL PRESENCE A BRIDGE TO BRUSSELS – ADVOCACY IN ACTION 52 – SOLID IN SOLIDARITY GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY 33 54 THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PAUSE, REWIND BROADCASTING NETWORK – FLEXIBLE AND FUTURE-PROOF March 2013 – EUROVISION news operation, St Peter’s Square, the Vatican Member brochure 4 Member brochure 5 PROVIDING EXCLUSIVE CONTENT: Good quality content is the lifeblood of public service media. Our Members have a duty to deliver excellent, compelling, multiplatform content that informs, educates and entertains. Through rights acquisition, networking events, thematic projects and content exchanges, we place diverse programming and fresh, creative thinking at the fingertips of EBU Members. By providing easy access to the sport, music, news and entertainment programming our Members need, we help them to better serve their audiences. 6 SPORT: WE KNOW OUR RIGHTS Photo Credit: AFP Credit: Photo June 2012 – Women’s 4x100 relay, Helsinki 2012 European Athletics Championships (AFP) Sport is about performance. The same WHY COLLECTIVE RIGHTS competitive instinct leads our sports NEGOTIATION MAKES SENSE rights negotiations, which we carry out - Members only pay for the rights they need. Our sports exclusively for the Members that want rights sales team makes sure we exploit the unwanted them. rights they do not require, so that nothing goes to waste. - A more appealing offer to rights owners seeking the Many sports federations want maximum exposure widest possible reach and coverage through simple, streamlined agreements – our speciality. - Unrivalled industry know-how coupled with long- established relationships As the centralized rights portfolio holder, we save - Collateral benefits, such as influence over scheduling, Members the labour-intensive legal work, and simplify so that specific events are held at broadcast-friendly access to must-have rights. This reduces costs and saves times time. - We bundle a full range of services for federations, making EUROVISION an attractive partner in all areas of operation. EBU Creating Communities 7 EBU Sports Rights Portfolio in full: 30 federations Football events - 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ 120 - 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ 500 competition days - 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar™ - EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS (qualifying matches for: a year UEFA EURO 2016™ and - 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ - FIFA Other Events 2011–2014 "Smart business thinking, new services and - FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2012™ our commitment to innovation means we are Paralympics - Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games the partner of choice for many elite sports - Rio 2016 Paralympic Games federations. This approach and our proven Summer Sports experience of production, major event Athletics organization and broadcast and broadband - IAAF 2014–2017 distribution means we're present at every - EAA 2013–2015 stage of the broadcast value chain." - EAA 2011–2015 ex Europe Cycling Stefan Kürten, - ASO/Tour de France 2012–2015 EBU - Vuelta 2012–2015 - Amstel Gold Race 2013–2016 - Tour des Flandres 2013–2016 YOUR CONTACT - Vattenfall Hamburg 2012–2015 - San Sebastián 2013–2016 STEFAN KÜRTEN - Dauphiné 2013–2015 DIRECTOR OF SPORTS & BUSINESS Swimming - FFN Open Paris 2012 E-MAIL [email protected] - LEN 2013–2016 - LEN 2017–2018 OFFICE +41 22 717 2801 - FINA 2010–2013 Equestrian MOBILE +41 79 751 2975 - FEI 2011-2014 Rowing - FISA 2013-2016 Canoeing - ICF 2013–2016 Rally - FIA WRC 2012 Handball - IHF 2013 (radio) Winter Sports Skiing - FIS 2011–2013 (Alpine & Nordic) - FIS 2015–2017 (Alpine & Nordic) - OSV 2011–2017 Austrian Ski - FIS Ski Flying 2014–2016 Biathlon - IBU 2010–2014 Skating - ISU 2011–2015 Indoor Sports Weightlifting - EWF 2013–2016 Gymnastics - UEG 2013–2016 Wrestling - FILA 2013–2016 8 MUSIC: WORKING IN CONCERT January 2013 – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra New Year’s Concert The EURORADIO Music Exchange The Eurosonic partnership is the pop, rock and folk arm gives Members automatic or pay-as- of the system – a gateway to modern music and live you-go access to the largest music radio events. exchange in the world. Every major, public, youth-focused music radio station in Europe is part of the Eurosonic community. It is a vast musical repository, enhanced by exclusive rights to labels, rising stars, and performances from Coldplay, Radiohead, Manu Chao and Gossip are among some of the world's elite opera houses. the headline acts recently offered at no extra cost to participating Members. The system is built on the same principle of reciprocity upon which the EBU was founded. Members pool thousands of classical or jazz concerts, and then take what they want – at no extra charge, via our satellite network, or deferred via the sound files exchange system. EBU Creating Communities 9 4,000 concerts offered 450 concert hours taken by each Music Exchange user 83 radio stations participating "The benefits of the EURORADIO Music Exchange are immeasurable – access to the biggest concert hall in the world." Friedrich Spangemacher, SR, Germany YOUR CONTACT CHRISTIAN VOGG HEAD OF RADIO E-MAIL [email protected] OFFICE +41 22 717 2601 MOBILE +41 79 376 8531 An exclusive partnership with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Photo Credit: Terry Linke Terry Credit: Photo We have a distribution agreement with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO) for the TV and radio broadcast rights to a package of three classical concerts that is exclusive to EBU Members. The current agreement runs until 2017. If they wish, Members and Associate