{"id":103249,"date":"2026-06-25T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/103249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:58:11","slug":"cbc-radio-canada-becomes-full-member-of-european-broadcasting-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/103249\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC\/Radio Canada Becomes Full Member Of European Broadcasting Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCanada\u2019s CBC<\/a>\/Radio-Canada has officially joined the European Broadcasting Union (EBU<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tA vote earlier today at the EBU\u2019s 96th General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic confirmed the news, which formalizes a long-standing relationship between Europe\u2019s public broadcasters and their Canadian counterpart.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBC\/Radio-Canada<\/a> has long mirrored European pubcasters in many of its endeavors, goals and strategies, and has been an associate member of the EBU since the body\u2019s founding in 1950.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a full member, CBC\/Radio-Canada will gain access to networks for investigative journalism, verification, digital news and data, along with the Eurovision News Exchange and Euroradio Music Exchange services, the latter of which it will immediately join.<\/p>\n

\n\tNoel Curran, Director General of the EBU, said:\u00a0\u201cCBC\/Radio-Canada has been part of the EBU family since our foundation in 1950. As one of the world\u2019s leading public broadcasters, it has already contributed hugely to our Union \u2014 helping us set and uphold the standards of public service journalism that matter most right now. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFull membership means we can now do even more together: on platform accountability, on trusted news, on the resilience that public broadcasters need to build for the years ahead. Canada\u2019s voice in this community makes us\u00a0stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe decision to allow Canada into the European alliance marks an interesting moment for the EBU, coming after a revision to the body\u2019s framework to open membership to extra-European \u201cbroadcasting organizations from countries with a public service media system aligned with core Council of Europe standards and formal observer status with the Council of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMarie-Philippe Bouchard, President and CEO of CBC\/Radio-Canada, added:\u00a0\u201cThank you to the European Broadcasting Union for welcoming CBC\/Radio-Canada as a Full Member. This new chapter in our relationship with the EBU and its members will deepen our cooperation at a time when the collective impact of public service media is essential. It\u2019s an important milestone that will benefit people on both sides of the Atlantic by helping to combat disinformation and support cultural expression.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCBC\/Radio-Canada has operated for 90 years, after being launched in 1936 as a radio broadcaster. It now operates across six time zones with services in English and French and eight Indigenous languages: D\u00ebne S\u0173\u0142\u0131n\u00e9, Dene K\u01ddd\u01dd\u0301, Dene Zhat\u0131\u00e9, Eastern Cree, Dinjii Zhu\u02bc Ginjik, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and T\u0142\u0131\u0328ch\u01eb.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe EBU\u2019s membership now spans 115 organizations across 57\u00a0countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s CBC\/Radio-Canada has officially joined the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). A vote earlier today at the EBU\u2019s 96th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,8084,37218,37219],"class_list":["post-103249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-radio-canada","tag-ebu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}