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The European Broadcasting Union ('''EBU'''), known in French as ''' As Of 2004 , the EBU has active full members from 52 countries, and associate members from a further 29. Members are radio and television companies, most of which are government-owned Public Service Broadcasters or privately owned stations with public missions. Full active Members are based in countries from Algeria to the Vatican State, including almost all European countries. Associate members are not limited to those from European countries and the Mediterranean but include broadcasters from Canada , Japan , Mexico , Brazil , India and Hong Kong , as well as many others. Associate Members from the United States include ABC , CBS , NBC , the Corporation For Public Broadcasting , and Time Warner . The EBU's most well-known production is probably the Eurovision Song Contest organised by its Eurovision Network . The ability of any country from which there are full members of the EBU to enter this contest leads both to the ever growing number of entries, and the counter-intuitive inclusion of countries, such as Morocco, which are generally not considered to be part of Europe. The Eurovision Network also organises the Eurovision Young Dancers competition, which is modelled along similar lines. The countries in the EBU have also often worked together to create documentaries and (animated) children's programming. The first such co-production was the animated series The Animals Of Farthing Wood from the year 1993 based on the books of the same title by Colin Dann . The theme music played before EBU broadcasts, is Marc-Antoine Charpentier 's Prelude to Te Deum . It is well known to europeans as played before and after the Eurovision Song Contest . EBU TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES 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 ). 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. The EBU places great emphasis on the use of open standards. Widespread use of open standards (such as MPEG-2 , DAB , DVB , etc.) 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. EBU Members and the EBU Technical Department have long played an important role in the development of many systems used in radio and television broadcasting, such as:
The EBU has also actively encouraged the development and implementation of:
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