EUROPA-TV was a consortium of five European public service broadcasters from Germany (ARD), Ireland (RTÉ), Italy (RAI), the Netherlands (NOS), and Portugal (RTP). It aspired to be pan-European not only with regard to its geographical reach but also its programming content. It came after the Eurikon experiment that consisted on the production of an experimental television program which, over a period of five weeks, was distributed in closed-circuit format.