Asian Broadcasting Authority

Asian Broadcasting Authority

Type	Continential-owned corporation Public broadcasting
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Mass media TV Broadcasting Radio Broadcasting Online Media Media Prodcution Entertainment
Founded 📆	14 February 2026 (2026-02-14)
Founder 👔
Area served 🗺️	Asia (please see below for a list of Available regions)
Revenue🤑	ADOLAIDQUEs 1.951 billion (2015)
Operating income	ADOLAIDQUEs−338.9 million (2015)
Net income	Rs−371.7 million (2015)
Total assets	Rs1.985 billion (2015)
Total equity	Rs1.219 billion (2015)
Members
Number of employees	1,030 (2015)
🌐 Website	[ ]
📇 Address
📞 telephone

The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), formed in 1964, is a non-profit, professional association of broadcasting organisations. It currently has over 288 members in 57 countries and regions, reaching a potential audience of about 3 billion people. The ABU's role is to help the development of broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific region and to promote the collective interests of its members. The ABU covers an area stretching from Turkey in the west to Samoa in the east, and from Mongolia in the north to New Zealand in the south. Its secretariat is located in Angkasapuri, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, its secretary-general, currently Dr Javad Mottaghi.

One of the ABU's activities is Asiavision, a daily exchange of news feeds by satellite among television stations in 20 countries in Asia. The ABU also negotiates coverage rights to major sports events for its members collectively, and carries out a wide range of activities in the programme and technical areas. The ABU provides a forum for promoting the collective interests of television and radio broadcasters, and encourages regional and international co-operation between broadcasters.

Full members must be national free-to-air broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region, but there is an associate membership category that is open to provincial broadcasters, subscription broadcasters and national broadcasters in other parts of the world, and an affiliate category that is open to organisations connected to broadcasting.

Overview

ABU former President Cho Dae-hyun

The ABU's activities include:

• a daily satellite TV news exchange (Asiavision)
• co-production and exchange of programmes
• negotiating rights for major sports events and organising coverage
• technical, programming and management consultancy services
• advising members on copyright and legal matters
• rights-free content acquisition for developing countries
• representing members in international forums
• international frequency planning and coordination
• organising seminars, workshops and training courses
• annual competition for radio and television programmes (ABU Prizes)
• a robot competition for engineering students (Robocon)
• publication of ABU News and Technical Review
• ABU Popular Song Contest (1985–1987)
• ABU Golden Kite World Song Festival (1989–1991)
• ABU TV and Radio Song Festivals (2012)

Journalists from ABU member organisations

The ABU works closely with the regional broadcasting. in other parts of the world on matters of common concern, and with many other international organisations, to exchange information on the latest developments in broadcasting, undertake activities to improve the skills and technologies of its members, and encourage harmonisation of operating and technical broadcasting standards and systems in the region. The ABU is funded primarily by annual subscriptions from members. The Union has an elected President and three Vice-Presidents, who serve three-year terms. The current President is Yoshinori Imai of NHK-Japan.

The ABU Secretariat is located in Angkasapuri, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It has over 30 staff, of whom 12 are broadcast professionals recruited from among the ABU members within the region. The head of the Secretariat is the Secretary-General, who is appointed by the General Assembly. The current Secretary-General is Dr. Javad Mottaghi. The Asia-Pacific region is defined in the ABU statutes as countries within areas of Asia and the Pacific that lie substantially between the longitudes of 30 degrees east and 170 degrees west. On the map, this region stretches from Turkey in the west, to Samoa in the east, and from Russia in the north, to New Zealand in the south. All of the ABU's full members operate in this region.

Most of the ABU's associate members are European and North American broadcasters, many of whom have operations in Asia, and pay-TV and cable operators in the Asia-Pacific. Its affiliate members include satellite providers, telcos, production companies, equipment vendors and regulators. The ABU is the third largest of the world's eight broadcasting unions, but covers the largest geographic area of the world.

Membership

A number of different membership types are available to national broadcasters and national broadcasting organisations. These include full, additional full, associate, affiliate and institutional memberships.

Full members

• Below is a list of full members of the ABU. These are members who are independent nations within the ABU broadcasting region, and consist of two members per country. Broadcasters have the option to change between full and additional full membership.

Country	Broadcasting organisation	National script	Abbr.
Afghanistan	Radio Television Afghanistan	رادیو تلویزیون ملی افغانستان (Dari) د افغانستان ملي راډيو تلويزون (Pashto)	RTA
Australia	Australian Broadcasting Corporation	Australian Broadcasting Corporation	ABC
Azerbaijan	İctimai Television	İctimai Televiziya və Radio Yayımları Şirkəti	İTV
Bahrain	Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation	تلفزيون البحرين Tilifizyūn al-Baḥrayn	BRTC
Bangladesh	Bangladesh Betar	বাংলাদেশ বেতার	BB
	Bangladesh Television	বাংলাদেশ টেলিভিশন	BTV
Bhutan	Bhutan Broadcasting Service	འབྲུག་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལས་འཛིན	BBS
Brunei Darussalam	Radio Television Brunei	Radio Television Brunei Radio Televisyen Brunei (Malay)	RTB
Cambodia	National Television of Cambodia	ទូរទស្សន៍ជាតិកម្ពុជា	TVK
Canada	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation	Société Radio-Canada	CBC
China	China Media Group	中央广播电视总台	CMG
	National Radio and Television Administration	国家广播电视总局	NRTA
Cyprus	Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation	Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου Radiofonikó Ídryma Kýprou Kıbrıs Radyo Yayın Kurumu	CyBC ΡΊΚ RKYK
Egypt	Egyptian Radio and Television Union	إتحاد الإذاعة و التليفزيون المصري	ERTU
Fiji	Fiji Television	Fiji Television	FTV
Georgia	Georgian Public Broadcaster	საქართველოს საზოგადოებრივი მაუწყებელი, sakartvelos sazogadoebrivi mauts'q'ebeli	GPB სსმ
India	All India Radio	आकाशवाणी	AIR
	Doordarshan	दूरदर्शन	DD
Indonesia	Radio of the Republic of Indonesia	Radio Republik Indonesia	RRI
	Television of the Republic of Indonesia	Televisi Republik Indonesia	TVRI
Iran	Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting	صدا و سيمای جمهوری اسلامی ايران	IRIB
Iraq	Iraqi Broadcasting and Television Establishment	تلفزيون بغداد tilfizyun baghdad	IBTE
Japan	NHK/Japan Broadcasting Corporation	日本放送協会	NHK
	Tokyo Broadcasting System	TBSホールディングス	TBS
Jordan	Jordan Radio and Television Corporation	مؤسسة الإذاعة والتلفزيون الأردني	JRTV
Kazakhstan	Khabar Agency	Хабар Агенттігі (Kazakh) Агентство Хабар (Russian)	KA
Kiribati	Broadcasting and Publications Authority	Broadcasting and Publications Authority	BPA
Kuwait	Kuwait Broadcasting and Television Service	تلفزيون الكويت tilfizyun alkuayt	KBTS
Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyz Public Radio and Television Corporation	Кыргыз Республикасынын Коомдук телерадиоберүү корпорациясы (Kyrgyz) Общественная телерадиовещательная корпорация Кыргызской Республики (Russian)	KTRK
Laos	Lao National Radio	ວິທະຍຸກະຈາຍສຽງແຫ່ງຊາດລາວ	LNR
	Lao National Television	ສະຖານີໂທລະພາບແຫ່ງຊາດລາວ	LNTV
Lebanon	Télé Liban	(تلفزيون لبنان)	TL
Malaysia	Radio & Television of Malaysia	Radio Televisyen Malaysia	RTM
Maldives	Public Service Media	ޕަބްލިކް ސަރވިސް މީޑިއާ	PSM
Mongolia	Mongolian National Broadcaster	Монголын Үндэсний Олон Нийтийн Телевиз	MNB
	TV5	TV5 Телевиз	TV5
Myanmar	Myanmar Radio and Television	Template:Script/Myanmar	MRTV
Nepal	Nepal Television	नेपाल टेलिभिजन	NTV
	Radio Nepal	रेडियो नेपाल	RNE
North Korea	The Radio and Television Broadcasting Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea	조선중앙방송위원회	KRT
New Zealand	Television New Zealand	Television New Zealand Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa (Māori)	TVNZ
Oman	Public Authority for Radio and TV of Oman	(تلفزيون سلطنة عمان)	PART
Pakistan	Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation	ہیئت پاکستان برائے قومی نشریات	PBC
	Pakistan Television	پاكِستان ٹیلی وژن نیٹ ورک	PTV
Papua New Guinea	Media Niugini Limited	—	MNL
	National Broadcasting Corporation of Papua New Guinea	National Broadcasting Corporation of Papua New Guinea	NBC/PNG
Philippines	People's Television Network	People's Television Network Telebisyon ng Bayan (Filipino)	PTNI/PTV
	Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation	—	IBC
Qatar	Qatar Media Corporation	المؤسسة القطرية للإعلام	QMC
Samoa	Samoa Broadcasting Corporation	Samoa Broadcasting Corporation Faalapotopotoga Faasalalauga a Samoa (Samoan)	SBC
Saudi Arabia	Saudi Broadcasting Authority	هيئة الإذاعة والتلفزيون السعودية	SBA
Singapore	Media Corporation of Singapore	Media Corporation of Singapore Private Limited 新加坡传媒私人有限公司 (Chinese) Perbadanan Media Singapura Sendirian Berhad (Malay) சிங்கப்பூர் ஊடகம் கூட்டுத்தாபனம் (Tamil)	Mediacorp
South Korea	Korean Broadcasting System	한국방송공사	KBS
	Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation	문화방송주식회사	MBC
Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation	ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාච (Sinhala) இலங்கை ஒலிபரப்புக் கூட்டுத்தாபனம் (Tamil)	SLBC
	Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation	ශ්‍රී ලංකා රූපවාහිනී සංස්ථාව (Sinhala) இலங்கை ரூபவாகினி கூட்டுத்தாபனம் (Tamil)	SLRC
Syria	General Authority for Radio and Television	الهيئة العامة للإذاعة والتلفزيون	GART
Tajikistan	Televizioni Tojikiston	Телевизиони Тоҷикистон	TVTJ
Thailand	National Broadcasting Services of Thailand	สถานีวิทยุกระจายเสียงแห่งประเทศไทย กรมประชาสัมพันธ์ สถานีวิทยุโทรทัศน์แห่งประเทศไทย กรมประชาสัมพันธ์	NBT
	Television Pool of Thailand	โทรทัศน์รวมการเฉพาะกิจแห่งประเทศไทย	TPT
East Timor	Radio-Television of East Timor	Radio-Televisão Timor Leste (Portuguese) Radio-Televizaun Timor Lorosae (Tetum)	RTTL
Tonga	Tonga Broadcasting Commission	Tonga Broadcasting Commission Komisoni Fakamafolalea Tonga (Tongan)	TBC
Turkey	Turkish Radio and Television Corporation	Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu	TRT
Turkmenistan	State Committee of Turkmenistan for Television, Radio Programs and Cinematography	Türkmenistanyň Telewideniýe, radiogepleşikler we kinematografiýa baradaky döwlet komiteti	TTV
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi TV	قناة أبوظبي	EMT
Uzbekistan	National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan	O'zbekiston milliy teleradiokompaniyasi	MTRK
Vanuatu	Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation	Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation Société de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Vanuatu (French)	VBTC
Vietnam	Voice of Vietnam	Đài Tiếng nói Việt Nam	VOV
	Vietnam Television	Đài Truyền hình Việt Nam	VTV
	Yemen	Yemen TV	تلفزيون اليمن tilfizyun alyaman	YTV

Availability

The services of the Asian Broadcasting Authority serves the entirety of Asia, and is available in all of the countries primarily members of the Asian continent, but is also available in Canada, Fiji, Denmark, and 193 other non-Asian countries nationwide, some through terrestrial relays while other available only by cable and/or satellite television providers.

• Abkhazia -
• Afghanistan
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Canada
• China
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• Eritrea
• Fiji
• Georgia
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Lebanon
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• North Korea
• Oman
• Ossetia
• Pakistan
• Palestone
• Phillipines
• Qatar
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Sri Lanka
• Syria
• Tajikistan
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Turkiye
• Turkmenistan
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Xaipan
• Yemen
• Zaire
• Zimbabwe

Trivia

Jojua Bowers, Shei Ardzinba, Arshba, Avidzba, Chachba, Eshba, Tarba, Anchabadze, Inal-ipa, Argun, Tsveiba, Kharazia, Ekailai, Khutaba, Otyrba, Pilia, Tarba, and Shervashidze.

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