High five: EBU groups team up to address speech intelligibility

Werner Bleisteiner, co-chair of the EBU Audio Systems group, reports on a transversal workshop hosted by BBC R&D in London with participation from five EBU working groups. With audio mixes becoming more...

RTÉ’s strategic transformation charts a new direction on new technological terrain

With the recent 2025 EBU Technology & Innovation Summit hosted by RTÉ in Dublin, we invited the company's Head of Technology Infrastructure, Brian Wynne, to explain how technology is supporting the Irish broadcaster’s...

ECOFLOW II: Exploring sustainable choices in media distribution

The second phase of the ECOFLOW IBC Accelerator project is now underway, supporting efforts across the media industry to better understand and reduce the environmental impact of digital content distribution.

Sveriges Radio and EBU collaborate on a smarter way to search the news

Since March 2025, Svergies Radio (SR) listeners have been testing a new type of news search in the form of an AI-driven chatbot powered by Neo from the EBU. We asked Max Sommerstein, project manager and...

EBU, Linux Foundation and NABA launch open source MXL SDK for software-based Media Exchange

The MXL SDK is the fruit of extensive collaboration, led by the EBU, in collaboration with NABA, EBU members including the BBC, SWR, SR, and CBC/Radio-Canada, and key vendors. It was officially launched...

EBU Technical Assembly calls for trusted Cloud and AI infrastructure in Europe

The European Broadcasting Union's (EBU) Technical Assembly has agreed on a position calling for the development of sovereign, interoperable, resilient, and sustainable Cloud and AI infrastructure to support...

France Télévisions wins EBU Technology & Innovation Award for C2PA proof-of-concept implementation

France Télévisions received the EBU Technology & Innovation Award for its C2PA implementation, and France Télévisions Yannick Olivier the Yount Technology Talent of the Year Award for his SMPTE ST 2110...

Applying the M.A.R.S. strategy to modern media production

The continued exponential growth of computing power in the IT industry, writes Antonio Arcidicono, creates a significant opportunity for more agile, flexible, and cost-effective media production, fully...

tech-i 64: New tech and a new direction for Ireland's RTÉ

With the EBU Technology & Innovation Summit 2025 hosted in Dublin this week by RTÉ, the latest issue of tech-i magazine celebrates the Irish broadcaster's new strategy and the tech that enables it, including...

Less budget, more content: public media goes smart

How can public broadcasters deliver more diverse content across expanding platforms while working with the same resources?Smarter production is the key, says Harald Kräuter, Director of Technology and...

Oh smart! Strengthening collaboration on open-source software for media

OSMART is an initiative that has seen several organizations active in the media delivery ecosystem collaborating to raise awareness of the tools they provide. Participating organizations include 5G-MAG,...

Nominees revealed for EBU Technology & Innovation Award 2025

The winner of the EBU Technology & Innovation Award 2025 will be announced during the EBU Technology & Innovation Summit in Dublin on 5 June. Here we provide an overview of the nominated projects.

Opening kids’ eyes to the wonders of Information and Communication Technology at EBU Girls in ICT Day 2025

EBU at its headquarters in Geneva hosted 20 students from a primary school of the local community for the 2025 Girls in ICT day. 

EBU simplifies the matching of HDR monitors

EBU Recommendation 167 provides a number of ‘Predefined Monitor Modes’ that make it much easier to get different monitors to align.

Measuring the presence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in RTVE programming

Carmen Pérez Cernuda, Deputy Director of Innovation and Technological Strategy, describes the Spanish broadcaster’s innovative analysis to quantify the airtime dedicated the SDGs on public television....

Series of veraAI webinars highlights research on AI against disinformation

Since 2022, the EBU has been participating in veraAI, a Horizon Europe project that develops AI-based tools against disinformation. Now in its third year, the project partners are presenting their newly...

EBU, Linux Foundation and NABA make Dynamic Media Facilities real with the open source MXL project

Every technological shift needs foundations to be put in place first. The EBU, Linux Foundation and NABA are doing that now with the creation of the Media eXchange Layer (MXL), the key enabler for the...

OGraf, the EBU’s open spec for cross-platform graphics integration

Broadcast graphics such as lower-thirds and over-the-shoulders are part of the standard toolkit of video production. The EBU OGraf project aims to create a definitive, open standard for the delivery and...

User interaction, accuracy and value-added services key AI innovation drivers at PSM, DTS 2025 shows

With the emergence of AI technologies, most media organizations have made it a strategic priority to innovate around their data, as this year's EBU Data Technology Seminar showed.

Generative AI: promising for content creation but not yet ready for primetime

An IBC Accelerator project highlighted the immense potential of generative AI to transform media production. Led by the EBU and Rai, it involved the creation of an animated pilot inspired by “Around the...

Widespread innovation on AI tools across public service media

An EBU workshop showcased a variety of projects from across the EBU membership, ranging from the use of LLMs to assist content creation or improve audience engagement to the development of platforms that...

EBU showcases 5G-EMERGE media streaming solution at MWC25

The EBU has demonstrated a solution combining edge computing with hybrid satellite and 5G networks for efficient, scalable, and secure media streaming at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona.

tech-i 63: A shift in the future of radio in cars?

The March 2025 issue of tech-i magazine asks whether absence of any radio in most models of what is, for now, a niche category of vehicle could point towards deeper problems for the future prominence of...

NextGen TV: US broadcasters transition to enhanced quality and services

Sam Matheny, CTO of the National Association of Broadcasters, provides this update on the ATSC 3.0 enabled roll-out of UHD and HDR services in the USA.