Euronews is a pan-European news television channel broadcasting to most of Europe (and even further afield), by satellite, cable television networks and terrestrially by time-sharing on state television networks.
As a rolling news channel, news headlines from Europe and the world are broadcast every half-hour. Magazine articles fill in the remaining schedule time (although this is occasionally displaced for breaking news or live coverage). These regular slots focus on market data, financial news, sports news and results, art and culture, weather, European politics and the lives of European citizens.
Euronews is broadcast in seven languages, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and Italian. Owing to this multilingual approach the channel has no on-screen anchors but rather uses voice-over narration to accompany the news footage. An optional "silent" audio stream without this voice-over is additionally broadcast with some Euronews transmissions. Some short items are also shown without any commentary under the banner "No Comment", often using striking video footage to make a clear point.
EuroNews was created in 1992 in Lyon, France, as an EBU initiative by a group of 11 European public broadcasters:
It began broadcasting from Lyon on January 1st, 1993.
SECEMIE (Societé Editrice de la Chaîne Européenne Multilingue d’Information EuroNews) holds the broadcasting licence and is the current producer of the channel. It is co-owned by the founders and:
Content is supplied by the shareholders and Britain's ITN.