20 Facts About Euronews

Euronews is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France.

The majority of Euronews is owned by Portuguese investment management firm Alpac Capital with the rest partly owned by several European and North African public and state-owned broadcasting organizations.

Euronews SA is the operating company that produces the channel and holds the broadcasting licence.

In 2007, Euronews won the European Commission's tender for an Arabic-language news channel, with a service agreement being signed on 6 December.

On 27 May 2008, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE decided to leave Euronews, citing legal requirements to maintain low debt levels through careful spending as a factor influencing its decision to leave, as well as to promote its international channel TVE Internacional.

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In January 2014, Euronews announced a partnership with public broadcaster Tele Congo "under the auspices of the President of the Republic of the Congo, Mr Denis Sassou Nguesso" to create an African service entitled Africanews.

In January 2016, Euronews was accused of plagiarism by the Congolese media group AfricaNews, because the Lyon-based channel used the name "Africanews" for its African subsidiary.

In 2020, Euronews originally planned to sell Africanews to a group known as Sipromad, but the deal eventually fell through and the two parties entered litigation.

The new Euronews hired new correspondents in London, Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Madrid and Washington DC, and gained access to NBC News' large network of correspondents worldwide.

Euronews launched an application for mobile devices which is called "Euronews Live".

In 2013, the new commercial channel Planet TV started broadcasting Euronews dubbed in Slovenian after Antenna TV SL purchased a major stake in the company.

In September 2016, Euronews disappeared from the Freesat channel list in the UK, in a move made by Sawiris.

In September 2017, VGTRK ceased simulcasting Euronews to expand broadcasting hours of its Russia-K channel.

Since 2018, Euronews has begun licensing its name to various private and public broadcasters and organisations in southern, central and eastern Europe, agreeing to set up localized Euronews channels broadcasting regional, national, European and international news in local languages.

In 2019, Euronews launched its first franchise through a joint venture with local RTV In in Albania.

The new channel, known as Euronews Albania, is based in Tirana, Albania and covers the Western Balkans countries of Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo and North Macedonia.

In 2021, Euronews signed a partnership with TV Europa to launch a channel in Bulgarian.

In 2019, Euronews signed a deal with local telecommunications company Silknet to launch a channel in Georgian.

In 2021, Euronews teamed up with the Politehnica University of Bucharest to launch a channel in Romanian.

In 2019, Euronews teamed up with the media group HD-WIN, owned by the state-owned Telekom Srbija, to launch a channel in Serbian.