Inside the European Broadcasting Service: 30 years of news services

Discover how, for decades, the European Commission has been providing reliable news services for the press. Beginning in 1965, the Audiovisual Services of the European Commission have offered essential infrastructure for journalists and for Commissioners: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en

The studios enabled media across Europe to access material needed to report on important EU matters. In line with the Commission’s ongoing policy of promoting openness and transparency, 30 years later, on 4 September 1995, Europe by Satellite (EbS), the European Commission’s satellite information service, was launched.

EbS is available for free to television companies, local, regional and national, within the European Union, the Mediterranean area and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to national and regional EU institutions.

Across the decades, the AV Services of the Commission, and later EbS, which became European Broadcasting Service (EBS) in 2025, have captured on film every phase of EU enlargement, carried out live transmissions with the International Space Station and broadcast the EU receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

Since its creation, EbS, which in 2024 became the European Broadcasting Service and currently covers all of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia, has recorded more than 14,000 press conferences, more than 4700 midday press briefings and covered more than 1300 weekly meetings of the Commission.

Watch on the Audiovisual Portal of the European Commission: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/m...

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