Euronews
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| Euronews | |
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| Euronews logo | |
| Launched | September 7, 1986 (officially) January 1, 1993 in Lyon |
| Owned by | SOCEMIE |
| Country | Several European |
| Website | www.euronews.eu |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Limited terrestrial retransmission | |
| 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 Network | Channel 48 |
| freesat (UK) | Channel 204 |
| UBI World TV (Australia and New Zealand) | Channel 4 |
| Digital+ (Spain) | Channel 69 |
| NTV Plus | |
| Galaxy 23 (North America, C-Band FTA) | 3.781 GHz V / 29.270 |
| 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) |
| IPTV over ADSL | |
| 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 |
| 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 multilingual and pan-European television news channel launched on January 1, 1993 in Lyon. It covers world news from a European perspective,[1] in many languages.
In 2008 Euronews is distributed to 248 million households in 135 countries worldwide. It reached more than 177 million European households by cable, satellite and terrestrial. This compared with 167 million European households for CNN International, 124 million for BBC World News and 65 million for CNBC Europe.[2][3]
Euronews 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 for a "mission of European information"[4] from amongst seven candidates, Euronews produces and broadcasts news programs simultaneously in eight languages on issues that pertain both to the European Union as to the world. The channel receives €5 million of funding each year,[4] 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.
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[edit] 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.
Euronews is currently broadcast in eight languages; English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Arabic, 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.[citation needed] Some items are displayed without commentary under the banner "No Comment", a segment which reports exclusively through visual footage.
Euronews recently expanded into Romania with a 30-minute Romanian-language newscast on Romanian second channel TVR 2, on weekdays at 9:15 AM.[5]
On June 6th 2008 it was revealed that Euronews would be re-launching its Arabic language service, which existed between the years 1996 until 1999 and was terminated back then due to financial reasons.
In an exclusive interview with Faisal Abbas, Media Editor of the London based Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat, Michael Peters, Managing Director of Euronews, confirmed that the launch event of the new Arabic channel would be on 12 July 2008 and would take place at the "Institut Du Monde Arabe" in Paris.
Peters explained that Euronews has secured a five-year contract with the European Commission to secure finances for the new project at five million euro a year.[6]
[edit] History and organisation
Euronews was originally founded in 1992 in Lyon as a European Broadcasting Union initiative by a group of 11 European public broadcasters:
It began broadcasting from London in 1996.
In 1997, the British news broadcaster ITN bought a 49% 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.[7] 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.
As of late November 2005, German TV channels ARD and ZDF were in negotiations about joining Euronews.[8]
On February 6, 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) bought a 1% stake in SOCEMIE.[9]
On May 27, 2008, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE decided to leave Euronews to promote its international channel TVE Internacional. However, RTVE wanted to elude the payment of 2 million € partner's quota per year.[10]
[edit] Criticism
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.[11]
Euronews is partially funded by the European Commission,[4] which has on occasion raised questions about its ability to report impartially on politically sensitive issues.
[edit] Programmes
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Programmes on Euronews include:
- news - Covering the top European, Arab State 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 and commodity prices
- wall street live - Live from the New York Stock Exchange
- headlines - A brief overview of the main news stories
- Europe - Covering European affairs
- sport - Top sports stories
- eurofoot - Results of European football
- 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
- 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
- talent - Ordinary people with extraordinary talents
- 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 broadcast current affairs
- comment visions - Interviews with thinkers, innovators and opinion leaders
[edit] References
- ^ "Many Voices One Vision". Euronews Press Release, www.euronews.net. http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?page=euronews&lng=1. Retrieved on 2 January 2007.[dead link]
- ^ http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/wp_responses/organisations/Euronews.rtf
- ^ Media Pack 2006 Q405 ENG
- ^ a b c "What is EuroNews?". European Commission's Audiovisual Service. http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/about/index.cfm?sitelang=en§ion=about&page=euronews. Retrieved on 21 April 2008.
- ^ "EuroNews lansează un jurnal zilnic în limba română" (in Romanian). TVR. 2004-09-27. http://www.tvr.ro/articol.php?id=2638.
- ^ "EuroNews Set to Launch Arabic Channel Next Month". Asharq Al-Awsat. 2006-06-06. http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=5&id=12998.
- ^ "Circom Report April 2002". Circom. April, 2002. http://www.circom-regional.org/circomreport/2002/reportapril02.rtf.
- ^ [Update] Euronews: ZDF bestätigt Interesse an einem Einstieg :: SAT+KABEL :: Digital TV - Medien - Breitband[dead link]
- ^ "NTU becomes 20th EuroNews shareholder". DigitalSpy. 2006-02-05. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a28857/ntu-becomes-20th-euronews-shareholder.html.
- ^ "TVE abandona EuroNews" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 2006-02-05. http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/06/05/comunicacion/1212656729.html.
- ^ Microsoft Word - caneuhearme_summary_press release mr.doc
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official International News Site
- Guide to receiving Astra satellites
- Guide to channels broadcasting on Astra satellites
