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EuroNews is a multilingual and pan-European television news channel launched on January 1 1993. It covers world news from a European perspective^[1], broadcasting to most of Europe as well as terrestrially to 102 countries through satellite and cable and through time sharing on state television networks. 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.

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.

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
ENTV
ERTT
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. [1]

On February 6 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) bought a 1% stake in SOCEMIE. [2]

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]}

Criticism

EuroNews is seen by some observers and critics as boring, impersonal, lacking in context, and excessively neutral in tone.[3]

References

^ "Many Voices One Vision". EuroNews Staff, www.euronews.net. Retrieved 2 January. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b "What is EuroNews?". European Commission's Audiovisual Service. Retrieved 3 January. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
^ "Circom Report April 2002". Circom. April, 2002. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

Official Site

[1] "Many Voices One Vision". EuroNews Staff, www.euronews.net. Retrieved 2 January. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

[AC-2] "What is EuroNews?". European Commission's Audiovisual Service. Retrieved 3 January. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

[ITN-3] "Circom Report April 2002". Circom. April, 2002. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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