Euronews

Euronews
Launched	1 January 1993
Owned by	Euronews SA
Picture format	16:9 (576i, SDTV)
Slogan	Pure
Country	France
Headquarters	60, chemin des Mouilles 69130 Lyon-Écully, France
Website	Official website
Availability
Terrestrial
Europe	limited retransmission
Satellite
Sky (UK & Ireland)	Channel 508
Cyfra+ (Poland)	Channel 85 or 745
Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland)	Channel 181
Astra 1M	11.817 GHz V / 27.5
direct tv 56	12.226 GHz H / 27.5
Eutelsat 28A	11344 V 27500 2/3
Eutelsat Hot Bird 13A	11.034 GHz V / 27.5 & 12.597 GHz V / 27.5
Turksat 3A 42°E	11.096 GHz H / 30.0
Asiasat 2	3.960 GHz H / 27.5
DStv (South Africa)	Channel 404
Digiturk (Turkey)	Channel 123
Dish Network (United States)	Channel 901
SKY Italia (Italy)	Channel 508
Dolce (Romania)	Channel 254
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal	Channel 53
Freesat (UK & Ireland)	Channel 204
UBI World TV (Australia and New Zealand)	Channel 4
Canal+ (Spain)	Channel 142
Galaxy 23 (North America, C-band free to air)	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 (United Kingdom)	Channel 620
UPC Ireland (Ireland)	Channel 203 (EN) Channel 831-836 (FR-RU)
Cablevision (United States)	Channel 103
Vidéotron (Canada)	Channel 172 (French)
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 223 (Digital Subscribers)
Cablecom (Switzerland)	Channel 046 (digital CH-D)
UPC Netherlands (Netherlands)	Channel 402 (digital television)
ZON TV Cabo (Portugal)	Channel 203
Euskaltel (Basque Country, Spain)	Channel 29
UPC Poland	Channel 342
Cablelink (Philippines)	Channel 106
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 201
Hypp.TV (Malaysia)	Channel 2006
MAXtv (Croatia)	Channel 702
UniFi (Maylasia)	Channel 402
CHT MOD (Taiwan)	Channel 219
KT QOOK TV (South Korea)	Channel 28
mtel open iptv (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	Channel 502
Internet television
Livestation	http://www.livestation.com/channels/1 (free, 502 kbit/s stream available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Arabic; not available in Canada or the United States)
Real SuperPass	Watch
Official website	http://euronews.net/news/streaming-live/ (free, flash streaming available in English, French, Persian, Ukrainian) [Ukrainian is available worldwide; English and French are not available in Canada or the United States]

Euronews is a European, multilingual news television channel, headquartered in Lyon-Écully, France. Created in 1993, it claims to be covering world news from a Pan-European perspective.

Content

As a rolling-news channel, headlines from both Europe as well as the world are broadcast in thirty-minute intervals. Brief magazine segments typically fill in the remaining schedule, focusing on market data, financial news, sports news, art and culture, science, weather, European politics, and press reviews of the major European newspapers. These item slots will occasionally be preempted by breaking news or live television coverage. Some segments are displayed without commentary under the banner "No Comment", which has been the channel's signature program since its launch.

History and organisation

General

In 1992, following the First Persian Gulf War, during which CNN's position as the preeminent source of 24-hour news programming was cemented, the European Broadcasting Union decided to establish the channel to present information from a European perspective. Euronews was first broadcast on 1 January 1993 from Lyon, with an additional broadcast studio set up in London in 1996. It was founded by a group of ten European public broadcasters:

Logo used from 26 October 1998 to 3 June 2008

Logo used from 26 October 1998 to 3 June 2008

• CYBC
• France Télévisions
• RAI
• RTBF
• RTP
• RTVE (former shareholder)
• TMC (former shareholder)
• YLE
• ERTU

In 1997, the British news broadcaster ITN purchased a 49-percent share of Euronews for £5.1 million 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. SOCEMIE is the actual operating company which produces the channel and holds the broadcasting licence. It is co-owned by the 10 founders and:

• VGTRK
• TRT
• ČT
• PBS
• SNRT

• RTVSLO
• RTÉ
• NTU
• SRG-SSR
• TVR

• SVT - MTG
• ERTT
• ENTV

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 news-gathering rather than channel management.

On 6 February 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) purchased a one-percent interest in SOCEMIE.

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.

In February 2009, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT became a shareholder in the channel, and joined its supervisory board. TRT purchased 15.70% of the channel's shares and became the fourth main partner after France Télévisions (23.93%), RAI (21.54%), and RTR (15.98%).

Greek public service broadcaster ERT was one of the many European public service broadcasters to fund the channel. Due to the current economic state of Greece, the Greek government announced the closure of its public service broadcaster ERT, thus the station was no-longer in the position to financially support Euronews. The Greek government made this decision based on an agreement between the EU, ECB and IMF to reduce the cost of running the broadcaster.

Language History

#	Language	Launch
1	English	1 January 1993
1	French	1 January 1993
1	German	1 January 1993
1	Italian	1 January 1993
1	Spanish	1 January 1993
6	Portuguese	November 1999
7	Russian	September 2001
8	Arabic	12 July 2008
9	Turkish	30 January 2010
10	Persian	27 October 2010
11	Ukrainian	24 August 2011
12	Greek	18 December 2012
13	Hungarian	30 May 2013
14	Serbian	November 2013
+1	Polish (just selectable as an audio option but it is broadcasting in English)	(As of 16 December 2011)

Format

Since 11 January 2011, the channel has been broadcast in the 16:9 format, which replaced the previous 4:3 format.

Executive Board

CEO : Michael Peters

Born in 1971 in Flensburg, Germany, of French and German nationality, Michael Peters graduated from EM Lyon business school with a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering (1995) and from IAE Lyon III (1992). He began his career at the international auditing firm of Arthur Andersen, in Lyon, France (1995-1998). Michael Peters joined Euronews in 1998 as Finance Manager and then became CFO. He was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Euronews in December 2003.

In May 2005, at the age of 33, and seven years after joining Euronews, Michael Peters was appointed Managing Director of Europe’s leading news channel. In December 2008, Michael Peters was appointed Managing Director of the Executive Board of Euronews S.A. In December 2011, Michael Peters was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board.

Members of the Executive Board

• Michael Peters, CEO, Chairman of the Executive Board
• Lucian Sârb, Director of News and Programmes
• Cécile Leveaux, Chief Technical Officer
• Olivier de Montchenu, Worldwide Sales Director, Managing Director of Euronews Sales

Management Committee

• Michael Peters, Chairman of the Executive Board
• Lucian Sârb, Director of News and Programmes
• Cécile Leveaux, Chief Technical Officer
• Olivier de Montchenu, Worldwide Sales Director, Managing Director of Euronews Sales
• David Cipel, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
• Grégory Samak, Director of Broadcasting and Programme Marketing
• Grégoire Olivero de Rubiana, Director of External Relations
• Arnaud Verlhac, Deputy Director Worldwide Distribution

Supervisory Board

Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Paolo Garimberti

A native Italian and educated in Law, Paolo Garimberti has spent his entire career in journalism. He began as a correspondent in Moscow for the daily newspaper La Stampa, then as Office Manager in Rome. In 1986, he moved to La Repubblica as an editorialist, specialising in foreign politics. He also appeared as an expert commentator on RAI’s TG3 (television news programme). He was then appointed Manager of RAI’s TG2, before going back to La Repubblica as Vice Managing Director, until 2004. During that time, he founded and managed the rolling news website, CNN Italia. He then went on to Espresso Group where he held the positions of Director of International Relations and Development, as well as editorialist. 2009-2012: Paolo Garimberti returned to RAI as its Chairman. In May 2012, he became Chairman of the new museum of the Juventus team at the stadium in Turin. Paolo Garimberti was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Euronews on 16 December 2011.

Members of the Supervisory Board (natural persons)

• Paolo Garimberti
• Andrey Bystritsky
• Ahmet Koyuncu
• Stéphanie Martin
• Philippe Cayla
• Pier Luigi Malesani

Members of the Supervisory Board (legal entities)

• France Télévisions (France)
• RAI (Italy)
• RTR (Russia)
• TRT (Turkey)
• SSR (Switzerland)
• SNRT (Morocco)
• RTP (Portugal)
• RTE (Ireland)
• RTBF (Belgium)
• ERT (Greece)

Criticism

Euronews has received criticism from some eurosceptic commentators, for perceived bias towards the European Commission.

Presentation

The channel employs an unusual presentation style: initially, rather than using in-vision presenters, it only showed video footage with recorded voice-overs. This aims to prevent bias. In 2011, however, extended news items featured in-vision reporters, including occasional pieces to camera.

Euronews has a distinct and unique presentation model in a highly competitive news universe:

• No studio, no anchormen for a unique and immediately identifiable style;
• A European, and therefore, a different outlook on the world;
• A multilingualist approach enhanced by the introduction of new languages;
• An editorial policy of broadcasting accurate and verified information.

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 Agence France-Presse, Italian ANSA, Portuguese LUSA, German DPA, Spanish EFE and Russian ITAR-TASS.

Broadcast

The channel is available in 350 million households in 155 countries worldwide. It reaches more than 170 million European households by cable, satellite and terrestrial. It also began to secure availability on multimedia platforms such as IPTV and digital media.

Euronews launched an application for mobile devices (Android, iPhone, and iPad) which is called "Euronews Live". The application is free of charge and is available on Android Market and App Store.

The following countries also broadcast Euronews through terrestrial channels:

ArmNews.Eu (Sweden) in Russian TVSA Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) in English CyBC DTV Platform (Cyprus) in English (also simulcast by CyBC 2 when its programming is over) France 3 (France) in French ERT (Greece) in English TL (Lebanon) in Literary Arabic (daily at 8:00 pm) RTÉ One, RTÉ News Now (Ireland) in English Rai Uno (Italy) in Italian Extremadura TV,Aragón TV,7RM Murcia (Spain) in Spanish

TVM (Malta) in English RTP2 and RTP Açores (Portugal) in Portuguese TVR1 (Romania) in Romanian EVK, RTR KULTURA (Russia) in Russian TV Koper (Slovenia) in Italian RSI La 1 et RSI La 2 (Switzerland) in Italian and German RTS Un (Switzerland) in French and English UT-1 (Ukraine) in Ukrainian on weekdays at 15:15 TRT Haber (Turkey) in Turkish

The channel's programmes are also available by podcast, and it has also maintained a YouTube channel since October 2007.

In 2012, Belarusian largest state network MTIS stopped broadcasting of Euronews for unknown reasons.

In 2013, the new commercial channel Planet TV started broadcasting Euronews dubbed in Slovenian after Antenna TV SL purchased a major stake in the company. Euronews airs after closedown (or sign-off) of Planet TV, but both call sign logos are displayed.

See also

• Eurosport
• International broadcasting
• List of international television channels
• List of news channels

External links

• euronews.eu, official international-news website
  • Euronews's channel on YouTube
  • Euronews on Twitter
  • Euronews on Facebook