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Arte to Air Eight-Hour Piano Event in June

Arte will broadcast an eight-hour piano event on Sunday 21 June 2026 (Fête de la musique) titled "europiano: Die schönsten Klavierkonzerte aus Europa." The program will air from 15:30 to 23:00 and features major piano works by composers including Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Schumann. Performances are given by contemporary pianists accompanied by European orchestras and conductors, with contributions coming from venues in Vienna, Paris, Poznan, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Valencia, Athens, Hamburg, Lisbon and Wiesbaden. The broadcast will combine live transmissions, time-delayed live formats and recordings. Presenters will be Arte moderator Annette Gerlach (from the ZDF studio in Mainz) and pianist/influencer Louis Philippson. The production is a joint effort by ZDF/Arte, Arte GEIE, Arte France and NDR/Arte with partners including ORF, SVT, RTP and several production companies and cultural institutions.

European PSBs Collaborate to Drive Traffic Across Borders

European Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) are collaborating via the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to boost cross-border traffic and audience reach. The EBU operates the Eurovision News Exchange, a long-running, newswire-like service that provides members with 100–150 edited items daily and 17 hours of live content. To adapt to online media, the EBU launched 'A European Perspective,' a curated online news feed allowing member PSBs to publish each other’s content through a designated scroll bar on their sites, with clickable links returning to the original publishers. Ten PSBs participate: RTBF, YLE, France Télévisions, BR/ARD, RTÉ, RAI, RTP, RTVE, SWI swissinfo.ch, and ARTE. AI translates content into multiple languages, with editors retaining oversight and the option to manually curate or rely on the EBU’s recommendations. The goal is to enhance cross-border perspectives and compete for prominence with big tech platforms while keeping audiences on PSB sites.