Euronews

Infobox TV channel
name= Euronews
logofile=Euronews logo.png logosize=
logoalt=Euronews logo|
country=Several European
launch=January 1 1993
owner= SOCEMIE
former names=
replaced names=| web= [http://www.euronews.eu/ www.euronews.eu]
availability note=|
terr serv 1= Limited terrestrial retransmission
sat serv 1= Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)
sat chan 1= Channel 508
sat serv 2= Cyfra+ (Poland)
sat chan 2= Channel 85 or 745
sat serv 3= Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland)
sat chan 3= Channel 86
sat serv 4= Astra 1G
sat chan 4= 11.817 GHz V / 27.5
sat serv 5= Astra 1H
sat chan 5= 12.226 GHz H / 27.5
sat serv 6= Eurobird 1
sat chan 6= 11.681 GHz V / 27.5
sat serv 7= Hot Bird 6
sat chan 7= 11.034 GHz V / 27.5 & 12.597 GHz V / 27.5
sat serv 8= Asiasat 2
sat chan 8= 3.960 GHz H / 27.5
sat serv 9= DStv (South Africa)
sat chan 9= Channel 404
sat serv 10= Digiturk (Turkey)
sat chan 10= Channel 123
sat serv 11= Dish Network (United States)
sat chan 11= Channel 784
Channel 900
Channel 901
sat serv 12= SKY Italia (Italy)
sat chan 12= Channel 508
sat serv 13= Dolce (Romania)
sat chan 13= Channel 254
sat serv 14= TV Vlaanderen Digitaal
sat chan 14= Channel 53
sat serv 15= Orbit Network
sat chan 15= Channel 48
sat serv 16= freesat (UK)
sat chan 16= Channel 204
sat serv 17= UBI World TV (Australia and New Zealand)
sat chan 17= Channel 4
sat serv 18= Digital+ (Spain)
sat chan 18= Channel 69
sat serv 19= NTV Plus
sat chan 19=
cable serv 1=Virgin Media (UK)
cable chan 1= Channel 620| cable serv 2= UPC Ireland
cable chan 2= Channel 203 (EN)
Channel 831-836 (FR-RU)
cable serv 3=Cablevision (USA)
cable chan 3= Channel 103
cable serv 4= Vidéotron (Canada)
cable chan 4= Channel 172 (FR)
cable serv 5= Rogers Cable (Canada)
cable chan 5= Channel 193
cable serv 6= Com Hem (Sweden)
cable chan 6= Channel 123
cable serv 7= RCS&RDS (Romania)
cable chan 7= Channel 47
cable serv 8= UPC Romania (Romania)
cable chan 8= Channel 141
cable serv 9= MC Cable (Monaco)
cable chan 9= Channel
cable serv 10= KDG (Germany)
cable chan 10= Channel 554(DE), 827(RU), 837(FR; only upgraded networks), 848(UK; only upgraded networks), 869(IT), 873(ES), 882(POR)
cable serv 11= Ziggo (Netherlands)
cable chan 11= Channel 502
cable serv 12= KTV Šibenik (Croatia)
cable chan 12= Channel 15
cable serv 13= Naxoo (Switzerlands)
cable chan 13= Channel 66
adsl serv 1 = TELUS TV (Canada)
adsl chan 1 = Channel 104 (English)
Channel 433 (French)
adsl serv 2 = TrueIPTV (Thailand)
adsl chan 2 = Channel 13
adsl serv 3 = World On Demand
(Japan)
adsl chan 3 = English, Channel 110
French, Channel 111
adsl serv 4 = Now TV
(Hong-Kong)
adsl chan 4 = Channel 326
online serv 1 = Jalipo
online chan 1 = [http://www.jalipo.com Watch]
online serv 2 = Livestation
online chan 2 = [http://www.livestation.com/ Watch] (Free, 502 Kbit/s, available in English, French, Italian and Spanish)
online serv 3 = Real SuperPass
online chan 3 = [http://www.real.com/superpass Watch]
online serv 4 = Yalp.alice.it
online chan 4 = [http://www.yalp.alice.it/tv/index.html?channel=EURONEWS Watch] (Only in Italy)
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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, [cite web | url=http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?page=euronews&lng=1 | title=Many Voices One Vision | accessdate=2 January | accessyear=2007 | publisher=Euronews Staff, www.euronews.net] in many languages.

In 2008 "Euronews" is distributed to 248 million households in 135 countries worldwide. The latest distribution report shows that "Euronews" is the leading international news channel in Europe. 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. [http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/wp_responses/organisations/Euronews.rtf] [ [http://www.mediaandtrade.com/mediakit/EuroNews%20Media%20Pack%202006.pdf Media Pack 2006 Q405 ENG ] ]

"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"cite web | url=http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/about/index.cfm?sitelang=en&section=about&page=euronews | title=What is EuroNews? | accessdate=21 April | accessyear=2008 | publisher=European Commission's Audiovisual Service ] 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, 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.

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 eight languages; English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Arabic, 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.Fact|date=April 2007 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. [ro icon http://www.tvr.ro/articol.php?id=2638]

On June 6th 2008 it was revealed that "Euronews" will 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 be on the 12th of July 2008 and will take place at the "Institute 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 Euros a year.. [ [http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=5&id=12998 EuroNews Set to Launch Arabic Channel Next Month Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English) ] ]

History and organisation

"Euronews" was originally founded in 1992 in Lyon as a European Broadcasting Union initiative by a group of 11 European public broadcasters:

Logo used prior to June 2008