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is a pan-European tv information network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The community started broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and aimed to cowl world information from a pan-European perspective.
It is together owned via quite a few European and North African public and state-owned broadcasting organizations, and is presently majority-owned (88%) by means of Media Globe Networks, led by way of Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who is the chairman of the supervisory board. It is additionally an issuer of live streamed news, which can be seen in most of the world (with the exception of the United States) with the aid of its website, on YouTube, and on a number of cell units and digital media players.
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Contents
1 History and organization
1.1 Radio service
1.2 Africanews
1.3 Partnership with NBC
1.4 Post-NBC
2 Broadcast
2.1 Franchises
2.2 HD
3 Language availability
4 Logos
5 Programming
6 Bureau locations
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
History and organisation
In 1992, following the Persian Gulf War, in the course of which CNN's function as the preeminent supply of 24-hour news programming used to be cemented, the European Broadcasting Union determined to set up Euronews to existing data from a European perspective. The channel's first broadcast was once on 1 January 1993 from Écully, Lyon. An extra broadcast studio used to be set up in London in 1996. It used to be headquartered by using a team of ten public broadcasters:[2]
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CyBC, Cyprus
France Télévisions, France
RAI, Italy
RTBF, Belgium
RTP, Portugal
RTVE, Spain (former shareholder)
TMC, Monaco (former shareholder)
Yle, Finland
ERTU, Egypt
The shareholders are represented with the aid of the SOCEMIE (French: Société éditrice de la chaîne européenne multilingue d'information Euronews) consortium. Euronews SA is the running enterprise that produces the channel and holds the broadcasting licence. It is presently co-owned with the aid of seven of the ten founders and:
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VGTRK, Russia
ČT, Czech Republic
PBS, Malta
SNRT, Morocco
RTVSLO, Slovenia
RTÉ, Ireland
Suspilne, Ukraine
SRG-SSR, Switzerland
TVR, Romania
SVT/MTG, Sweden
RTT, Tunisia
ENTV, Algeria
ERT, Greece
In late 1997, the British information broadcaster ITN bought a 49% share of Euronews for £5.1 million from Alcatel-Lucent.[3] ITN furnished the content material of the channel alongside with the ultimate shareholders.
The broadcast switched from totally analog to basically digital transmission in 1999. That identical year, a Portuguese audio tune was once added. Russian audio music used to be brought in 2001, following VGTRK becoming a member of as one of the essential shareholders.
In April 2003, ITN bought its stake in Euronews as a section of its force to streamline operations and focal point on news-gathering as an alternative than channel management.[4][5]
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On 6 February 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) bought a one percentage activity in SOCEMIE.[6]
In 2007, Euronews received the European Commission's smooth for an Arabic-language information channel, with a provider settlement being signed on 6 December. The Arabic carrier would in the end be launched in July 2008.[7]
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On 27 May 2008, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE determined to depart Euronews, citing felony necessities to preserve low debt ranges via cautious spending as an element influencing its choice to leave, as properly as to promote its global channel TVE Internacional.[8]
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In February 2009, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT grew to be a shareholder in the channel and joined its supervisory board.[9] TRT bought 15.70% of the channel's shares and grew to become the fourth principal associate after France Télévisions (23.93%), RAI (21.54%), and VGTRK (16.94%). Subsequently, Turkish used to be brought as the ninth language provider in January 2010. Later that yr in October, the channel began broadcasting in Persian, then started out broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen structure in early 2011, and launched a Ukrainian carrier in August.[10] A Polish provider used to be launched in mid-2011 amid Poland's accession to the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, even though solely some chosen nighttime declares have been translated. It was once quickly after discontinued in January 2012.[11]
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In February 2015, the channel's govt board authorised a bid with the aid of Media Globe Networks, owned via Egyptian telecom magnate Naguib Sawiris, to accumulate a 53% controlling stake in the media outlet. The deal raised questions over Euronews's future editorial posture and independence.[12][13][14]
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Good Morning Europe anchor Belle Donati
On thirteen March 2015, it was once introduced that Inter Media Group, owned by means of pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, had taken over the Ukrainian service. In response, the Ukrainian authorities determined to revoke its broadcasting license for its suspected bias and dropped its funding.[15] Firtash later deserted the project, ensuing in the branch shutting down and leaving 17 journalists redundant. The Russian service, which used to be financed by means of Moscow, refused to supply jobs to the journalists, in violation of French labour legislation. The administration defined that no longer hiring any Ukrainian journalists used to be a unique training from VGTRK.[16][17]
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In October 2015, Euronews moved to a new world headquarters complicated in La Confluence, Lyon, designed via Paris structure association Jakob + MacFarlane and masking a ground place of 10,000m².[18]
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Radio service
On two October 2012, Euronews launched Euronews Radio. The provider was once on hand for down load on the App Store and Google Play, in addition to being on hand on TuneIn, and was once designed for viewers for whom "watching news is no longer an option" by means of imparting a direct simulcast to the TV channel, with the "No Comment" phase being changed by way of music. The song of the bulletin openings was once additionally transmitted on Euronews Radio. Weather reviews have been examine through a girl announcer.
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As of December 2020, the radio carrier seems to have been defunct, and the movement on its webpage or on TuneIn is now not functional.[19]
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Africanews
Main article: Africanews
In January 2014, Euronews introduced a partnership with public broadcaster Télé Congo "under the auspices of the President of the Republic of the Congo, Mr. Denis Sassou Nguesso" to create Africanews.[20] The internet site debuted on four January 2016, with the Africanews TV channel finally launching on 20 April, broadcasting in English and French from Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo.[21]
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In 2020, Euronews at the beginning deliberate to promote Africanews to a team regarded as Sipromad, however the deal sooner or later fell via and the two events are now in litigation. As a result, Africanews would stay underneath the possession of its sister channel, however its manufacturing would cross from Pointe-Noire to the international headquarters in Lyon by using the stop of July 2020, with a discount in prices of at least 30%.[22]
Partnership with NBC
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Euronews headquarters in Lyon
In November 2016, the channel's govt board used to be in talks with NBCUniversal, the mum or dad organisation of NBC News, for a "strategic partnership". NBCU would collect 15 to 30% possession of the Euronews network, would make contributions to Euronews content, and facilitate NBC News' increased operations in Europe.[23] After profitable negotiations with the European Commission, who feared that the partnership would end result in an "Americanization" of Euronews, the NBCUniversal News Group ultimately bought a 25% stake in Euronews in February 2017 for $30 million. NBC News president Deborah Turness was once appointed to head up worldwide operations, and incumbent Euronews CEO Michael Peters, who had led it on the grounds that 2004, grew to be CEO of the new partnership. Both mentioned at once to NBC News chairman Andrew Lack. The ensuing partnership grew to become recognised as Euronews NBC.[24]
Although Sawiris and NBC News have the greatest stakes in Euronews, editorial manipulate via SOCEMIE participants has been assured, with the broadcasters having seven slots in the editorial board, as hostile to Sawiris' organization (which has three slots) and NBC News, which solely has one, thereby lowering rumors of an "Americanization" of Euronews' values. Editorial manage is totally treated by means of Euronews' teams, with NBC solely focusing on planning and coordinating tasks.[25] After the formation of the partnership, video reviews from NBC News' houses started out to show up often on the TV
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