NationMaster - Encyclopedia: EuroNews

EuroNews is a multilingual and pan-European television news channel launched on January 1, 1993. It covers world news from a European perspective^[1], in many languages. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... SOCEMIE (Societé Opératrice de la Chaîne Européenne Multilingue d’Information EuroNews) is the company that produces the news channel EuroNews. ... Image File history File links European_flag. ... EuroNews is a multilingual and pan-European television news channel launched on January 1, 1993. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... Cyfra+ is a Polish digital satellite platform, owned and operated by French media company Canal+ (Cyfra is Polish for Digit). It offers 600 radio and TV channels. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... The correct title of this article is . ... SES Astra SA, a subsidiary of SES Global, is a Luxembourg-based (in Betzdorf) corporation which owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ... SES Astra SA, a subsidiary of SES Global, is a Luxembourg-based (in Betzdorf) corporation which owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ... Eurobird 1 is a Eutelsat operated satellite, used for digital television. ... Hot Bird or Hotbird is the common name of a family of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13Â°E over the Equator (orbital position) and with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. ... Digital Satellite Television (also known as DStv) is MultiChoices multi-channel digital satellite TV service in Africa, launched in 1995. ... Digiturk (or DIGITURK) is a Turkish Satellite television provider, founded in 1999, with services starting in mid-2000. ... DISH Network is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that provides satellite television and audio programming to households and businesses in the United States, owned by parent company EchoStar Communications Corporation. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... UPC Ireland N.V. is Liberty Global Europes operation in Ireland. ... For other uses, see Cablevision (disambiguation). ... VidÃ©otron Limited is an integrated communications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, wireless communication and Internet access services, serving Quebec, Canada. ... Rogers Communications Inc. ... Com Hem AB of Sweden, supplies triple play services that include cable tv, digital television, broadband, telephony and recently HDTV. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerket, the company has been successively named Svenska Kabel-TV AB and Telia InfoMedia TeleVision AB... Kabel Deutschland is a cable company operating in Germany, serving some BundeslÃ¤nder, but not Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hessen and east Thuringia. ... The term multilingualism can refer to rather different phenomena. ... A European is primarily a person who was born into one of the countries within the continent of Europe. ... For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...

In the fourth quarter of 2005 EuroNews was distributed to 193 million households in 121 countries worldwide. It reached more than 167 million European households by cable, satellite and terrestrial. This compared with 119 million European households for CNN International, 73 million for BBC World and 69 million for CNBC Europe. [1] [2] Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ... Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television. ... Terrestrial television (also known as over-the-air, OTA or broadcast television) was the traditional method of television broadcast signal delivery prior to the advent of cable and satellite television. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... BBC World is the BBCs international news and current affairs television channel. ... CNBC Europe is a business and financial news channel broadcast in Europe. ...

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. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... In fiction, a narrator is a voice or character who tells the story. ... No comment is a phrase used as a response to journalistic inquiries which the respondent does not wish to answer. ...

Selected by the European Commission 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. The Commission seat in Brussels The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ... â€œEURâ€ redirects here. ...

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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. World map showing the location of Europe. ... For other uses of the specific phrase The World, see The World (disambiguation). ... Example of a stock chart, the stock shown is VA Software Ticker tape was used by ticker tape machines, stock ticker machines, or just stock tickers. ... Finance addresses the ways in which individuals, business entities and other organizations allocate and use monetary resources over time. ... The Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (1844â€“1926). ... Culture (Culture from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate,) generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... The politics of Europe deals with the continually evolving politics within the continent. ... Breaking News is also the name of a Hong Kong movie. ... Live television refers to television broadcasts of events or performances on a delay of between zero and fifteen seconds, rather than from video recordings or film. ...

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.^{[citation needed]} Some items are displayed without commentary under the banner "No Comment", a segment which reports exclusively through visual footage. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The term multilingualism can refer to rather different phenomena. ... ITV newscaster Mark Austin. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... In fiction, a narrator is a voice or character who tells the story. ... No comment is a phrase used as a response to journalistic inquiries which the respondent does not wish to answer. ...

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: City flag City coat of arms Motto: (Franco-ProvenÃ§al: Forward, forward, Lyon the best) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country Region RhÃ´ne-Alpes Department RhÃ´ne (69) Subdivisions 9 arrondissements Intercommunality Urban Community of Lyon Mayor GÃ©rard Collomb (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; French: , and unrelated to the European Union) was formed on 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organisations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference in the coastal resort of Torquay in Devon, England. ... A European is primarily a person who was born into one of the countries within the continent of Europe. ...

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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: ITN may refer to: Independent Television News In the news, a section on the Main Page of English Wikipedia This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Alcatel SA is a global company, headquartered in France that provides hardware, software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises. ... SOCEMIE (Societé Opératrice de la Chaîne Européenne Multilingue d’Information EuroNews) is the company that produces the news channel EuroNews. ... A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organisations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal. ...

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. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic. ... Logo of ÄŒeskÃ¡ televizes CT1 channel. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Malta. ... Public Broadcasting Services Limited (PBS) is Maltas public broadcasting company, responsible for the TVM television channel and the Radio Malta and Radju Parlament(106. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Slovenia. ... Radiotelevizija Slovenija or RTV Slovenija (English: Radio-Television Slovenia) is the national broadcasting corporation of Slovenia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia. ... RTR can mean several things: RTR can refer to Rooftop-Retreat http://uepc014. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ukraine. ... NTU may stand for: National Taiwan University, a university in Taiwan National Taxpayers Union, a nonprofit organization in the United States National Television Company of Ukraine, a Ukrainian television broadcaster Nottingham Trent University, a university in the United Kingdom Nanyang Technological University, a university in Singapore Nephelometric Turbidity Unit, a... Image File history File links Flag_of_Switzerland. ... SRG SSR idÃ©e suisse is the Swiss public broadcasting organisation, founded in 1931. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Romania. ... Televiziunea Română (more commonly referred to as TVR) is the government-run national television network of Romania, which operates four channels: TVR 1, TVR 2, TVR Cultural and TVR International, along with regional channels in Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi, Timişoara and Craiova. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... TV4 is the largest commercial television channel in Sweden. ... Analog transmission is a method of conveying voice, data, image, signal or video information using a continuous signal which varies in amplitude, phase, or some other property in proportion to that of a variable. ... A digital system is one that uses discrete values (often electrical voltages), especially those representable as binary numbers, or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (ie, as in an analog system). ...

As of late November 2005, German TV channels ARD and ZDF were in negotiations about joining Euronews. [3] Current logo The Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Ã¶ffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Cooperative association of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany), or simply ARD, is a joint organization of Germanys regional public broadcasting agencies. ... Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Second German Television), ZDF, is a public service German television channel based in Mainz. ...

On February 6, 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) bought a 1% stake in SOCEMIE. [4] February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

EuroNews recently expanded into Romania with a 30-minute Romanian-language newscast on Romanian second channel TVR 2, on weekdays at 9:15 AM.^{[citation needed]} Romanian (limba romÃ¢nÄƒ, IPA: ) is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people[1], primarily in Romania and Moldova. ... TVR 2, Televiziunea Romana 2 (translated: Romanian Television 2), is the second channel of the public broadcaster TVR. The channel was created in 1972, but it was suspended from 1985 until after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989. ...

Criticism

In a study conducted by Gallup Europe, respondents described EuroNews as "boring" as well as "monotonous, slow, repetitive" and criticised the scarcity of breaking news coverage on the channel. [5] The Gallup Organization provides a variety of management consulting, human resources and statistical research services. ...

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