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eTV, which is the official television platform for the World's Leading Trade Fair for Electronic Components, Systems and Applications, started on November 13, 2012. Daily, eTV examined the industry's key trends and technologies. Programming included thrilling interviews and up-to-date reports on this year's main themes, i.e. smart energy solutions, e-mobility solutions, embedded solutions and power electronics.

eTV - Friday
The electronics sector is one of the industries that are especially affected by the shortage of specialists. eTV shows how electronica is trying combat this problem with the student day in the electronica Forum. One of the highlights was the presentation of the Cosima award for the best university projects. Finally, on the last day of the trade fair, eTV took a look at the statistics and exhibitors drew a conclusion. Additionally the last podcast gives an expanded overview about this year's electronica and the highlights.

	eTV - Thursday Embedded Systems are at the core of most electronic applications, thus increasing the demand for these specialized components. Technical advances and the increased networking of different systems make them indispensable. This issue of eTV covers new developments in medical and wireless electronics. Last but not least, legendary industrial designer Luigi Colani talks about technology and design.

	eTV - Wednesday The car of the future is becoming increasingly intelligent. This is true for the infrastructure, too. Among other things, the semiconductor industry is currently working on the networking of vehicles and traffic control systems, on battery management systems for electric cars, and on solutions for a charging infrastructure. This eTV’s edition features these topis and presents also the concept car eBee, a world premier at electronica 2012.

	eTV - Tuesday One of the core topics of electronica 2012 was smart energy solutions. This edition of eTV shows how the industry will deal in the future with the challenges of the energy tunaround and energy supply in the smart grid. The traditional CEO Round Table focused on exactly these challenges, for which the semiconductor industry comes up with smart, technical solutions for the “smart” grid. Further this issue of eTV presents flexible solutions for storing electricity and show new developments in energy harvesting from the environment. Last but not least, Satoshi Sawamura, president of Rohm, Co. Ltd., gave an exclusive interview.

	eTV - Monday In this edition of the eTV magazine, experts from the automotive electronics sector have their say. Nicole Schmitt, Exhibition Group Director of electronica, gives an up-to-date insight into the preparations and organisation of a large trade fair, and last but not least, Norbert Bargmann, Deputy CEO of Messe München informes about the first facts, figures and data regarding electronica 2012.