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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] In terms of audience, Euronews is the most watched news channel in Europe, in front of CNN International and BBC World.[4] 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"[5] 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,[5] 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.
[edit] ContentAs 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 nine languages; Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish, 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.[6] 15-minute Ukrainian language newscasts are broadcast on Ukraine's Channel One at 18:45 on weekdays as of November 16, 2009. Full 24-hour Ukrainian version is currently planned.[7] On June 6, 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.[8] [edit] History and organisation
Logo used prior to June 2008 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.[9] 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.[10] On February 6, 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) bought a 1% stake in SOCEMIE.[11] 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.[12] In February 2009, Turkish public broadcaster TRT has become a shareholder in Euronews, and joined the channel's supervisory board.[13] TRT has bought 15.70% of the Euronews shares and became the fourth main partner after France Télévisions (25.37%), RAI (22.84%), and RTR (16.94%). [edit] CriticismIn 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.[14] [edit] ProgrammesProgrammes on Euronews include:
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