That the European Broadcasting Union was actually set up in 1950 as competition to the already existing Organisation Internationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision, which had been based in Brussels since 1946. The OIRT then moved its HQ to Prague and became in effect "TV for socialists". And (this bit I knew already though) there was the Intervision Song Festival, the Eurovision for the People, which still lives on in Sopot (Polish seaside resort). (Sopot Festival is a topic in itself, but somewhere else.)