The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly considering a) that electronic news gathering (ENG) crews must be able to operate in all parts of the world, and in all venues where a news event breaks; b) that news coverage produced by ENG crews must be delivered to the appropriate television facility, which is often remote from the area where the crews operate; c) that delivery of news coverage may be effected, depending on circumstances: by physical delivery of recorded ENG videocassettes; by transmission of the signal over portable microwave links; by injection of the signal in a switched telecommunication network; by satellite transmission; d) that the user requirements specific to ENG operation in terms of: received picture quality; received sound quality; number of sound channels; transmission channel bandwidth and reliability; equipment size and weight; talkback facilities, etc.; are often different from those that apply to normal television contribution transmission, and they are peculiar to the operating environment of ENG; e) that such user requirements are generally independent from the delivery method used.