EuroNews Television

Euronews
Launched	1 January 1993
Owned by	SOCEMIE
Picture format	16:9 (576i, SDTV)
Slogan	Pure
Country	European Union
Headquarters	60, chemin des Mouilles 69130 Lyon-Écully, France
Website	Official website
Availability
Terrestrial
Europe	limited retransmission
Satellite
Sky (UK & Ireland)	Channel 508
Cyfra+ (Poland)	Channel 85 or 745
Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland)	Channel 181
Astra 1M	11.817 GHz V / 27.5
	12.226 GHz H / 27.5
Eutelsat 28A	11.681 GHz V / 27.5
Eutelsat Hot Bird 13A	11.034 GHz V / 27.5 & 12.597 GHz V / 27.5
Turksat 3A 42°E	11.096 GHz H / 30.0
Asiasat 2	3.960 GHz H / 27.5
DStv (South Africa)	Channel 404
Digiturk (Turkey)	Channel 123
Dish Network (United States)	Channel 901
SKY Italia (Italy)	Channel 508
Dolce (Romania)	Channel 254
TV Vlaanderen Digitaal	Channel 53
Orbit Showtime
Freesat (UK & Ireland)	Channel 204
UBI World TV (Australia and New Zealand)	Channel 4
Canal+ (Spain)	Channel 142
NTV Plus
Galaxy 23 (North America, C-band free to air)	3.781 GHz V / 29.270
Meo (Portugal)	Channel 200
ZON TV Cabo (Portugal)	Channel 203
Indovision (Indonesia)	Channel 334
Saorsat (Ireland)	TBD
Cable
Virgin Media (United Kingdom)	Channel 620
UPC Ireland (Ireland)	Channel 203 (EN) Channel 831-836 (FR-RU)
Cablevision (United States)	Channel 103
Vidéotron (Canada)	Channel 172 (French)
Rogers Cable (Canada)	Channel 193
Com Hem (Sweden)	Channel 123
RCS&RDS (Romania)	Channel 47
UPC Romania (Romania)	Channel 421 (digital with DVR) Channel 141 (digital)
MC Cable (Monaco)	Channel
KDG (Germany)	Channel 554(DE), 827(RU), 837 (FR; only upgraded networks), 848 (UK; only upgraded networks), 869(IT), 873(ES), 882(POR)
Ziggo (Netherlands)	Channel 502
KTV Šibenik (Croatia)	Channel 15
Naxoo (Switzerland)	Channel 66
SkyCable (Philippines)	Channel 155
Cablecom (Switzerland)	Channel 046 (digital CH-D)
UPC Netherlands (Netherlands)	Channel 402 (digital television)
ZON TV Cabo (Portugal)	Channel 203
Euskaltel (Basque Country, Spain)	Channel 29
UPC Poland	Channel 342
Cablelink (Philippines)	Channel 104
IPTV
Fetch TV (Australia)
TELUS TV (Canada)	Channel 104 (English) Channel 433 (French)
TrueIPTV (Thailand)	Channel 13
World On Demand (Japan)	English, Channel 110 French, Channel 111
Now TV (Hong Kong)	Channel 326
mio TV (Singapore)	Channel 44
Meo (Portugal)	Channel 201
Hypp.TV (Malaysia)	Channel 2006
MAXtv (Croatia)	Channel 702
NexTV-America (United States, Canada)
UniFi (Maylasia)	Channel 123
CHT MOD (Taiwan)	Channel 219
KT QOOK TV (South Korea)	Channel 28
Internet television
Livestation	http://www.livestation.com/channels/1 (free, 502 kbit/s stream available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Arabic; not available in Canada or the United States)
Real SuperPass	Watch
Official website	http://euronews.net/news/streaming-live/ (free, flash streaming available in English, French, Persian, Ukrainian) [Ukrainian is available worldwide; English and French are not available in Canada or the United States]

Euronews is an international multilingual news television channel, covering world news from a Pan-European perspective.^[1][2][3][4] Available in eleven language services, Euronews is available in 350 million households in 155 countries.^{[citation needed]}

Content[link]

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

The channel has been critizised for rarely criticising the European Commission.^[1][2][3]

In 2011 Euronews took a step towards more competitive coverage of major events by sending its reporters at the heart of the action and seeking to give a more human face to the channel.

History and organisation[link]

General[link]

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 the channel to present information from a European perspective. Euronews was first broadcast on 1 January 1993 from Lyon, with an additional broadcast studio set up in London in 1996. It was founded by a group of ten European public broadcasters:^[7]

In 1997, the British news broadcaster ITN purchased a 49-percent share of Euronews for £5.1 million from Alcatel-Alsthom.^[8] 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.^[9] SOCEMIE is the actual operating company which produces the channel and holds the broadcasting licence. It is co-owned by the 10 founders and:

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.

In 2003, ITN sold its stake in Euronews as part of its drive to streamline operations and focus on news-gathering rather than channel management.^[10]

On 6 February 2006, Ukrainian public broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompanya Ukraïny (NTU) purchased a one-percent interest in SOCEMIE.^[11]

On 27 May 2008, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE decided to leave Euronews to promote its international channel TVE Internacional. It also cited legal requirements to maintain low debt levels through careful spending as a factor influencing its decision to leave.^[12]

In February 2009, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT became a shareholder in the channel, and joined its supervisory board.^[13] TRT purchased 15.70% of the channel's shares and became the fourth main partner after France Télévisions (23.93%), RAI (21.54%), and RTR (15.98%).

Language History[link]

• The channel started with 5 languages in 1993: English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.
• In 1999, Portuguese became the sixth broadcast language.
• In September 2001, Russian language became the seventh language.
• Since 12 July 2008, EuroNews broadcasts in Arabic.
• On 30 January 2010, Turkish was added.
• On 27 October 2010, Persian language became the tenth language.
• On 24 August 2011, Ukrainian language became the eleventh language.^[14]
• As of 16 December 2011, Polish is selectable as an audio option however it is broadcasting in English.

Format[link]

Since 11 January 2011, the channel has been broadcast in the 16:9 format, which replaced the previous 4:3 format.

Supervisory Board[link]

Comprises 16 members: 6 individuals and 10 corporate entities

• Paolo GARIMBERTI: Chairman of the Supervisory Board
• Andrey BYSTRITSKY: Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Other Board members

• Stéphanie MARTIN (France): Director of diversification and thematic channels at France Télévisions, Delegate Director of corporate Patronage for France Télévisions Publicité
• Ahmet KOYUNCU (Turkey): Deputy Managing Director of TRT
• Philippe CAYLA: President of Euronews Development
• Pier Luigi MALESANI

Corporate entities

• France Télévisions (France)Jean REVEILLON
• RTP (Portugal)José LOPEZ de ARAUJO
• RAI (Italy)Stefano LUPPI
• RTBF (Belgium)Jacques BRIQUEMONT
• RTR (Russia)Petr FEDOROV
• ERT (Greece)Fotini YIANNOULATOU
• TRT (Turkey)Mehmet Yilmaz KUCUK
• RTE (Ireland)Adrian MOYNES
• SSR (Switzerland)Gilles MARCHAND
• SNRT (Morocco)Mohammed AYAD

Executive Board[link]

• Michael PETERS: Chief Executive Officer
• Lucian SÂRB: Director of News and Programmes
• Olivier de MONTCHENU: Sales Director
• Cécile LEVEAUX: Chief Technical Officer

Executive Committee[link]

• Michael PETERS: Chief Executive Officer
• Lucian SÂRB: Director of News and Programmes
• Olivier de MONTCHENU: Sales Director
• Cécile LEVEAUX: Chief Technical Officer
• David CIPEL Financial and Administration Director
• Grégoire OLIVERO de RUBIANA: Director of External Relations

Presentation[link]

The channel employs an unusual presentation style: initially, rather than using in-vision presenters, it only showed video footage with recorded voice-overs. This aims to prevent bias. In 2011, however, extended news items have featured in-vision reporters, including occasional pieces to camera.

Euronews has a distinct and unique presentation model in a highly competitive news universe:^[15]

• No studio, no anchormen for a unique and immediately identifiable style;
• A European, and therefore, a different outlook on the world;
• A multilingualist approach enhanced by the introduction of new languages;
• An editorial policy of broadcasting accurate and verified information.

The principal sources of footage come from APTN (Associated Press Television News) and Reuters TV, these being the partner agencies of the European Broadcasting Union.^[16] It also draws upon resources from Agence France-Presse, Italian ANSA, Portuguese LUSA, German DPA, Spanish EFE and Russian TASS.

Broadcast[link]

The channel is available in 350 million households in 155 countries worldwide. It reaches more than 170 million European households by cable, satellite and terrestrial. It has also begun to secure availability on multimedia platforms such as IPTV and digital media.^[17]

Euronews has launched an application for mobile devices (Android, iPhone, and iPad) which is called "Euronews Live". The app is free of charge and is available on Android Market and App Store.^[18]

The following countries also broadcast Euronews through terrestrial channels:

The channel's programmes are also available by podcast, and it has also maintained a YouTube channel since October 2007.^[19]

In 2012, Belarusian largest state network MTIS stopped broadcasting of Euronews for unknown reasons. Euronews was the last independent TV channel available in Belarus.^[20][21]

Programmes[link]

Programmes on the channel include:

News

• news: the latest international news updated round the clock.
• no comment: the most striking images from around the world, unedited, with original sound.
• interview: face-to-face interviews with leading figures in the news.
• comment visions: interviews with thinkers, innovators and opinion leaders.
• U talk: videos and messages posted on euronews.net answered by experts and euronews editorial teams.
• I talk: face-to-face debate between a guest and our public interacting via videos posted on our webside.
• the network: a crossfire between 3 personalities with diverging opinions around the main story of the week.

Sport & météo

• sport: summaries, highlights and results of major sporting events.
• eurofoot: the latest results of the European football leagues.
• meteo world: an overall look at the forecasts across the continents.
• meteo europe: concise and constantly updated European weather forecasts.
• meteo airport: for viewers on the move, weather forecasts of the major airports.

Business

• business: the latest business and financial news.
• markets: stock exchanges, currency rates and commodity prices.
• wall street live: live opening and closing of the stock exchange in New York.
• business weekly: essential business guide highlighting the most important business events affecting the global economy.

Affaires européennes

• perspectives: what the European broadcasters say about the week's main event.
• europe weekly: weekly review of the main events, enriched by online users reactions.
• reporter: the pros and cons for people affected by EU policies.
• close-up Europe: a simulcast between a euronews journalist and an opinion leader on the main European
  political, business or social theme of the week.

Style de vie

• le mag: a daily look at arts, entertainment and the world around us.
• rendez-vous: the calendar of major cultural events across Europe.
• cinema: the latest news about the international film industry.
• musica: concerts, artists and festivals in Europe.
• learning world: a large range of stories convering the many facets of education.

Sci-tech

• hi-tech: the latest innovations in technology, including an extensive coverage of international trade shows.
• science: an in-depth look at scientific developments in biology, archaeology, health or environment.
• space: all space related activities: science, manned flights, launches.
• futuris: bringing European's leading research advancements to the public.
• fly: the airline industry in Europe, European air traffic management and air traffic control.
• trends: a compilation of the most popular terms searched by Europeans on Google during the last 7 days.
• innovation: companies taking the results of European research projects to the market.
• tomorrow's city debating tomorrow's challenges.^[22]

See also[link]

	European Union portal
	Journalism portal
	Lyon portal
	Television portal

• Eurosport
• International broadcasting
• List of international television channels
• List of news channels

References[link]

External links[link]

• euronews.eu, official international-news website
  • Euronews's channel on YouTube
  • Euronews on Twitter
  • Euronews on Facebook

Felix Baumgartner (born 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian skydiver and a BASE jumper. He is renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practiced parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones.

Biography[link]

He was born on 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria.^[1]

In 1999 he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[2]

On 31 July 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made fibre wing.^[3]

Baumgartner set the world record for the lowest BASE jump ever, from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.^[4]

He became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in France on 27 June 2004^{[citation needed]} and the first person to sky dive onto, then BASE jump from, the Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden on 18 August 2006.^[5]

On 12 December 2007 he became the first person to jump from the 91st floor observation deck, then went to the 90th floor (about 390 m (1,280 ft)) of the then tallest completed building in the world, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan.^[6]

[edit] Red Bull Stratos

In January 2010, it was reported that Baumgartner was working with a team of scientists and sponsor Red Bull to attempt the highest sky-dive on record.^[7] Baumgartner was going to make the 120,000 ft (36,600 m) jump from a capsule suspended from a balloon filled with helium, intending to become the first parachutist to break the sound barrier; the feat was scheduled to take place sometime in 2011.^[8][9][10] Joseph Kittinger, who holds the records Baumgartner is attempting to break, was advising Baumgartner during the "Stratos" mission in the hopes of getting scientific data on next-generation full pressure suits.^[7][11] However, on October 12, 2010, Red Bull announced it was placing the project on hold after Daniel Hogan filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court in Los Angeles, California in April, claiming he had originated the idea of the parachute dive from the edge of space in 2004 and that Red Bull had stolen the idea from him.^[12][13] The lawsuit was resolved out of court in June 2011^[14] and on 5 February 2012, The Daily Telegraph reported that the project would be resumed.^[15]

On 15 March 2012 he completed the first of two test jumps from 71,581 feet (21,818 m). During the jump he spent approximately three minutes and 43 seconds in free fall, reaching speeds of more than 360 miles per hour (580 km/h), before opening his parachute. In total, the jump lasted approximately eight minutes and eight seconds and Baumgartner became only the third person to safely parachute from a height of over 13.5 miles (21.7 km).^[16]

See also[link]

• Michel Fournier, who has been working on a 25 mile jump for several years.^[17]
• Joseph Kittinger, world record holder for skydiving from 102,800 ft
• Yves Rossy, the first man to cross the English Channel using a jet-powered wing

References[link]