Euranet

Euranet, the European Radio Network, is an amalgamation of 16 international, national, regional and local European broadcasters, making up a pan-European media consortium. The new project provides information about events in Europe no longer just from a national perspective but rather from a trans-national one.

Euranet’s joint broadcasts went on air at the beginning of April 2008

History

On the initiative of Deutsche Welle (DW) and Radio France Internationale (RFI), 16 international, national, regional and local European broadcasters from 13 EU countries joined forces to create a pan-European media consortium on 25th July 2007. This comprises both public and private broadcasters. The aim of the co-operation is to improve the quality of reporting on and from Europe, and to stimulate discussion about togetherness in Europe in order to promote a European general public.

The official presentation of the European media consortium Euranet by Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission, took place on the 26th February 2008 in Brussels. As the commissioner responsible for institutional relations and communication strategy, Margot Wallström announced that Euranet would receive 5.8 million Euros in financial support from the European Commission over the first five years. Despite this support, the Commission guaranteed the broadcasters full editorial independence.

In the first year, Euranet programmes will be broadcast in the five main languages – German, English, French, Polish and Spanish, as well as five further languages – Bulgarian, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian and Hungarian. Euranet aims to be broadcasting in all 23 official EU languages by 2012.

Members

The following radio stations are members of Euranet:

Consortium

Throughout its existence, the Euranet consortium will be jointly-headed by two CEOs who will be in charge of the strategy and further development of the network. CEO Erlends Calabuig (RFI) is responsible for financial affairs, and CEO Petra Kohnen (DW) for editorial matters.

Audio Formats

Euranet reports on cultural, social, economic and political events in the EU from a pan-European perspective. The programmes made by Europeans for Europeans enjoy a daily air-time of between 30 and 60 minutes. These are broadcast at prime-time and are re-broadcast several times.

* News: Important daily information about newsworthy events in Europe.
* Current Affairs: Daily reports about politics, economics and society.
* Magazines: Daily in-depth background features from a pan-European perspective on cultural, social, economic and political events across Europe.
* Dossiers: Devoted coverage appearing several times a year in all languages focussing on topics ranging from immigration to energy and the environment through to lifestyle.
* Live: Live coverage of special events in Europe 3 to 4 times a year.

The broadcasters concerned presently have between 12 and 19 million listeners per day in Europe and 30 million more worldwide.

Online Content

http://www.euranet.eu.

University Circle

A European University Circle was created in order to support the innovative radio and internet content. Within this project, journalism and/or foreign language students have the opportunity to use Euranet programmes as learning material. Additionally, students from participating universities provide the programme-makers with feedback and suggestions concerning Euranet broadcasts.

The following universities participate in the project: Cambridge University, Roosevelt Academy university college Middelburg, IHECS in Brussels, RWTH Aachen, Tampere University in Finland, Babes-Bolyai University in Romania and the University of Wroclaw in Poland.In addition to the participating radio stations, Euranet programmes are also re-broadcast by several campus radio stations. The local partner stations are associated members of the consortium. The partner broadcasters are:

* Great Britain: CUR 1350 Cambridge University
* Germany: Hochschulradio, TIDE Radio, Hamburg Media School, CampusRadioBonn
* France: Radio Campus Paris, Eur@dionantes
* Finland: Radio Moreeni Tampere University
* Polen: UniRadio Wrocław

Links

ee also

* http://www.euranet.eu
* http://cms.ifa.de/fileadmin/content/publikationen/kulturreport2008/kohnen.pd
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