Euronews

Euronews is a multilingual news television channel, headquartered in Lyon, France. Created in 1993, it aims to cover world news from a pan-European perspective. Naguib Sawiris, an Egyptian businessman owns 53% of the station (through Media Globe Networks) and is chairman of its supervisory board.

Content

As a rolling-news channel, headlines from both Europe as well as the world are broadcast in thirty-minute intervals. Brief magazine segments typically fill in the remaining schedule, focusing on market data, financial news, sports news, art and culture, science, weather, European politics, and press reviews of the major European newspapers. These item slots will occasionally be preempted by breaking news or live television coverage. Some segments are displayed without commentary under the banner "No Comment", which has been the channel's signature program since its launch.

History and organisation

General

In 1992, following the First Persian Gulf War, during which CNN's position as the preeminent source of 24-hour news programming was cemented, the European Broadcasting Union decided to establish Euronews to present information from a European perspective. The channel's first broadcast was on 1 January 1993 from Lyon. An additional broadcast studio was set up in London in 1996. It was founded by a group of ten European public broadcasters:

Euronews SA

SOCEMIE (Societé Opératrice de la Chaîne Européenne Multilingue d’Information Euronews) was the operating arm of the company behind the Pan-European news channel Euronews, with its headquarters in Lyon-Écully, France. In 2008 it merged with its publishing equivalent, the SECEMIE (Société éditrice de la chaîne multilingue d’information Euronews), to create Euronews SA. After having worked with the company since 1998, Michael Peters was appointed the CEO in 2011, replacing Philippe Cayla. It is owned by 21 public broadcasters from across Europe and the Mediterranean region:

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