Euranet (European Radio Network) is a consortium of international, national, regional and local European broadcasters.

History

On 25 July 2007, 16 international, national, regional, and local European broadcasters from 13 EU countries formed a pan-European media consortium at the initiative of

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(DW) and

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(RFI). This includes both public and private broadcasters. On 26 February 2008,

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, vice-president of the

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, made the official presentation of the European media consortium Euranet in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. In the first year, Euranet programmes were broadcast in the five main languages – German, English, French, Polish, and Spanish – as well as five additional languages – Bulgarian, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, and Hungarian. Euranet has 26 professional radio stations and 10 campus radios as of July 2012.

Members

The following radio stations are members of Euranet:

Consortium

Euranet was founded as a consortium of radio enterprises from various European countries, and its operations are governed by a service contract with the European Commission, which is its sole source of funding.

Euranet University Circle

In addition to the participating radio stations, Euranet programmes are also re-broadcast by several campus radio stations. The local partner stations are associated members of the consortium. The partner broadcasters are: * Finland: Radio Moreeni (University of Tampere) * Ireland: Trinity FM (Trinity College Dublin) * Germany: bonncampus 96,8 (University of Bonn) * Poland: Academic Radio Kampus (University of Warsaw) * Romania: UBB Radio (Babeş-Bolyai University) * Spain: Radio Universidad de Salamanca (University of Salamanca), UAB, UNED Radio (UNED – Spanish National University of Distance Education) * Sweden: Radio Campus Örebro (Örebro University)

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.euranet.eu College and university associations and consortia in Europe European Commission projects International radio networks Multilingual broadcasters Publicly funded broadcasters Radio in Europe 2008 establishments in the European Union