EuroNews

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EuroNews


Launched	January 1, 1993
Owned by	SOCEMIE
Audience share	1,399,000 (2005 est., EMS)
Country	Several European
Website	www.euronews.eu
Availability
Terrestrial
Limited terrestrial retransmission
Satellite
Sky Digital (UK)	Channel 509
Cyfra+ (Poland)	Channel 85 or 745
Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland)	Channel 86
Bell Expressvu (Canada)	Channel 146 (FR) Channel 511 (EN) Channel 699 (IT) Channel 710 (DE) Channel 723 (RU) Channel 724 (PT) Channel 725 (ES)
Now TV (Hong-Kong)	Channel 326
Astra 1G	11.817 GHz V / 27.5
Astra 1H	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
DStv (South Africa)	Channel 61
Cable
Virgin Media (UK)	Channel 620
NTL 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

EuroNews is a multilingual and pan-European television news channel launched on January 1, 1993. It covers world news from a European perspective^[1], in many languages.

In the fourth quarter of 2005 EuroNews was distributed to 187 million households in 119 countries worldwide. It reached more than 167 million European households by cable, satellite and terrestrial. This compared with 119 million European households for CNN International, 73 million for BBC World and 69 million for CNBC Europe. [1] [2]

EuroNews uses voice over narration to accompany all news footage save for live coverage, and features a "No Comment" segment dedicated to reports which consist exclusively out of visual content.

Selected by the European Commission (EC) for a "mission of European information"^[2] from amongst seven candidates, EuroNews produces and broadcasts news programs simultaneously in several languages on issues that pertain both to the European Union as to the world. The channel receives €5 million of funding each year, and 10% or more of its production must consist of information and debates which are directly related to issues regarding the European Union.^[2] 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.

1 Content
2 History and organization
3 Programs
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[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 seven languages; English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, however 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. Some items are displayed without commentary under the banner "No Comment", a segment which reports exclusively through visual footage.

[edit] History and organization

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 Lyon on January 1, 1993.

In 1997, the British news broadcaster ITN bought 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^[3]. SOCEMIE is the actual operating company which produces the channel and holds the broadcasting licence. It is co-owned by the founders and:

CT
PBS
RTÉ
RTVSLO
RTR
NTU
SRG-SSR
TVR
TV4 (Stake holder)

The broadcast switched from solely analogue to mainly digital transmission in 1999, although analogue transmissions (on Hotbird) exist to this day. 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. [3]

On February 6, 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) bought a 1% stake in SOCEMIE. [4]

EuroNews recently expanded into Romania with a 30-minute Romanian-language newscast immediately following the main news, which has an audience of 19 million people.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Programs

Programs on EuroNews include:

News
Press Review
Economia
Markets
Headlines
Europa
Sport
No Comment
Weather
Business
Interview
Europeans
Pass
Europinion
Le Mag
Cinema
Comment
Space
Hi Tech
Futaris
Terra Viva
Agenda
Parliamenta

[edit] References

^ Many Voices One Vision. EuroNews Staff, www.euronews.net. Retrieved on 2 January 2007.
^ ^a ^b What is EuroNews?. European Commission's Audiovisual Service. Retrieved on 3 January 2007.
^ "Circom Report April 2002", Circom, April, 2002.