Euronews

Euronews
Launched	1992 (founded) 1 January 1993 (in Lyon)
Owned by	SOCEMIE
Country	Europe
Website	euronews.net
Availability
Terrestrial
Europe	limited retransmission
Washington, DC	WNTV 30.10 (ATSC)
Satellite
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)	Channel 508
Cyfra+ (Poland)	Channel 85 or 745
Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland)	Channel 86
Astra 1M	11.817 GHz V / 27.5
	12.226 GHz H / 27.5
Eurobird 1	11.681 GHz V / 27.5
Hot Bird 6	11.034 GHz V / 27.5 & 12.597 GHz V / 27.5
Asiasat 2	3.960 GHz H / 27.5
DStv (South Africa)	Channel 404
Digiturk (Turkey)	Channel 123
Dish Network (United States)	Channel 784 Channel 900 Channel 901
SKY Italia (Italy)	Channel 508
Dolce (Romania)	Channel 254
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal	Channel 53
Orbit Showtime
freesat (UK)	Channel 204
UBI World TV (Australia and New Zealand)	Channel 4
Digital+ (Spain)	Channel 142
NTV Plus
Galaxy 23 (North America, C-band FTA)	3.781 GHz V / 29.270
Meo Portugal	Channel 200
ZON TV Cabo Portugal	Channel 203
Indovision Indonesia	Channel 334
Saorsat Ireland	TBD
Cable
Virgin Media UK	Channel 620
UPC Ireland	Channel 203 (EN) Channel 831-836 (FR-RU)
Cablevision (USA)	Channel 103
Vidéotron Canada	Channel 172 (FR)
Rogers Cable Canada	Channel 193
Com Hem Sweden	Channel 123
RCS&RDS Romania	Channel 47
UPC Romania Romania	Channel 421 (digital with DVR) Channel 141 (digital)
MC Cable Monaco	Channel
KDG Germany	Channel 554(DE), 827(RU), 837 (FR; only upgraded networks), 848 (UK; only upgraded networks), 869(IT), 873(ES), 882(POR)
Ziggo (Netherlands)	Channel 502
KTV Šibenik (Croatia)	Channel 15
Naxoo (Switzerland)	Channel 66
SkyCable Philippines	Channel 155
Cablecom (Switzerland)	Channel 046 (digital CH-D)
UPC Netherlands (Netherlands)	Channel 402 (digital television)
ZON TV Cabo Portugal	Channel 203
IPTV
TELUS TV (Canada)	Channel 104 (English) Channel 433 (French)
TrueIPTV (Thailand)	Channel 13
World On Demand Japan	English, Channel 110 French, Channel 111
Now TV Hong-Kong	Channel 326
mio TV Singapore	Channel 44
Meo Portugal	Channel 200
Hypp.TV Malaysia	Channel 2006
MAXtv Croatia	Channel 702
NexTV-America (USA, Canada)
UniFi (Malaysia)	Channel 123
Internet television
Livestation	Watch (Free, 502 Kbit/s, available in English, French, Italian and Spanish)
Real SuperPass	Watch
Yalp.alice.it	Watch (Only in Italy)

Euronews is a pan-European multilingual news television channel launched on 1 January 1993 in Lyon. It covers world news from a European perspective,^[1] and is available in nine languages.^[2]

Euronews is available in 300 million households in 151 countries worldwide. It reaches more than 179 million European households by cable, satellite and terrestrial.^[2] This compared with 147 million European households for CNN International, 88 million for BBC World News and 76 million for CNBC Europe.^[3][4] In terms of audience, Euronews is the most widely distributed news channel in Europe, ahead of CNN International and BBC World.^[5]

Euronews is unusual in that it uses voice-over narration to accompany all news footage save for live coverage, and features a "no comment" segment dedicated to reports which exclusively consist of visual content.

Selected by the European Commission to broadcast EU-related programming, its function corresponds to a public national broadcaster.^[6] The channel receives €5 million of funding each year,^[6] and 10% or more of its production must consist of information and debates which are directly related to issues regarding the European Union. The channel also devoted a significant amount of attention to EU-related subjects prior to receiving this mandate due to its pan-European television network formation.

On 4 June 2008, Euronews redesigned its logo, on-air presentation and website.

Content

As a rolling news channel, headlines from both Europe as well as the world are broadcast at 30 minute intervals on Euronews. Brief magazine articles typically fill in the remaining schedule, which focus on market data, financial news, sports news, art & culture, science, weather, European politics and press reviews of the major European newspapers. These item slots will occasionally be displaced for breaking news or live coverages. Some items are displayed without commentary under the banner "No Comment", a segment which reports exclusively through visual footage.

Euronews is currently broadcast in nine languages; Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish, though not all languages are available in all countries. This multilingual approach prevents the use of on-screen anchors, leading Euronews to use voice-over narration to accompany its news footage. An optional and "silent" audio stream without this voice-over is additionally broadcast with some Euronews transmissions.^[7]

Euronews has expanded into Romania with a 30-minute Romanian-language newscast on Romanian second channel TVR 2, on weekdays at 9:15 AM.^[8]

15-minute Ukrainian-language newscasts are broadcast on Ukraine's Channel One at 18:45 on weekdays as of 16 November 2009. Full 24-hour Ukrainian version is currently planned.^[9]

A Persian language service will be launched in autumn 2010.^[10]

History and organisation

Logo used from 2000 to June 2008

Following the First Gulf War, during which CNN's position as the main source of information was cemented, the European Broadcasting Union decided to establish Euronews in 1992 to present information from a European perspective. It was first broadcast on 1 January 1993 from Lyon, with an additional broadcast centre set up in London in 1996. It was originally founded by a group of 11 European public broadcasters:

In 1994, the British news broadcaster ITN bought a 31% share of Euronews for £5.1m from Alcatel-Alsthom. ITN supplies the content of the channel along with the remaining shareholders, which are represented by the SOCEMIE (Société Editrice de la Chaîne Européenne Multilingue d'Information EuroNews) consortium.^[11] SOCEMIE is the actual operating company which produces the channel and holds the broadcasting licence. It is co-owned by the founders and:

The broadcast switched from solely analogue to mainly digital transmission in 1999. In the same year the Portuguese audio track was added. The Russian audio track appeared in 2001.

In 2003 ITN sold its stake in Euronews as part of its drive to streamline operations and focus on newsgathering rather than channel management. ^[12]

As of late November 2005, German TV channels ARD and ZDF were in negotiations about joining Euronews.^[13]

On 6 February 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) bought a 1% stake in SOCEMIE.^[14]

On 27 May 2008, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE decided to leave Euronews to promote its international channel TVE Internacional. It also cited legal requirements to maintain low debt levels through careful spending as a factor influencing its decision to leave.^[15]

In February 2009, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT has become a shareholder in Euronews, and joined the channel's supervisory board.^[16] TRT has bought 15.70% of the Euronews shares and became the fourth main partner after France Télévisions (25.37%), RAI (22.84%), and RTR (16.94%).

Presentation

Euronews employs an unusual presentation style: rather than using in-vision presenters, it only shows video footage with recorded voiceovers. This aims to prevent bias; however, in a study conducted by Gallup Europe in 2004, respondents described Euronews as "boring" as well as "monotonous, slow, repetitive" and criticised the scarcity of breaking news coverage on the channel.^[17] In recent months, however, extended news items have featured in-vision reporters, including occasional pieces to camera.

The principal sources of footage come from APTN (Associated Press Television News) and Reuters TV, these being the partner agencies of the European Broadcasting Union. It also draws upon resources from the French AFP, Italian ANSA, Portuguese LUSA, German DPA, Spanish EFE and Russian TASS.

Broadcast

Euronews is available in 330 million households in 151 countries worldwide. It reaches more than 179 million European households by cable, satellite and terrestrial. It has also begun to secure availability on multimedia platforms such as IPTV and digital media.^[2]

The following countries also broadcast Euronews through terrestrial channels:

Euronews programmes are also available by podcast, and it has also maintained a Youtube channel since October 2007.^[18]

Programmes

Programmes on Euronews include:

• news | Covering the top European, Asian (mainly focused on Arab World) and international news stories.
• press | A look at the front pages of various European titles every morning.
• business | Financial news.
• markets | News on the world stock markets, currencies, commodity and oil prices.
• wall street live | Live opening and closing of the New York Stock Exchange.
• headlines | A brief overview of the main news and business stories.
• Europe | Covering European affairs.
• sport | Top sports stories.
• eurofoot | Results of European football matches.
• no comment | Short video(s) with no narrator.
• meteo Europe/world/airport | weather forecasting.
• interview | An interview with a noted individual.
• reporter | A look at the lives of European citizenry.
• agora | A head-to-head debate.
• sawa | A look at the lives of European citizenry living around the Mediterranean Sea.
• questions for Europe, previously known as f.a.q. | General information about EU matters.
• le mag | Covering the arts, music, fashion, travel and culture.
• cinema | Recent films and movies.
• you | Interactive comment of EU citizenry regarding key issues.
• space | A look at space technology; produced in association with the European Space Agency.
• talent | Ordinary people with extraordinary talents.
• science and hi-tech | Focusing on science and technology studies.
• futuris | Focusing on futuristic technologies and theories.
• rendez-vous | Current cultural events in Europe.
• parlamento | News about the European Parliament.
• perspectives | Covers how different European channels of Euronews broadcast current affairs.
• comment visions | Interviews with thinkers, innovators and opinion leaders.
• World Cup Nation | FIFA World Cup 2010 News and scores

See also

• Eurosport
• International broadcasting

References

External links

• Official International News Site