Euronews
Pan-European news television channel
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| January 15 2025 | Relaunches Polish-language website and announces the launch of a permanent Polish-language service as its 18th language. |
| January 15 2025 | Launch of Euronews' permanent Polish-language service as the 18th language, coinciding with Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union. |
| March 2 2023 | Euronews announces relocation of its principal and editorial headquarters to Brussels, creating 100 new positions while eliminating 198 staff positions in Lyon. |
| February 2023 | The Saudi-based MBC Group added Euronews to its Shahid streaming platform, and satellite distribution of its French-language channel on Astra ceased at the end of the month. |
| February 2023 | Good Morning Europe, Euronews Tonight, and Global Weekend programs were discontinued |
| February 2023 | Euronews launched multiple new programming segments, including 'Wake up Europe' morning news, 'The European Debrief' weeknight news, and '5' Weekend' 5-minute weekend news segment. |
| 2022 | Euronews introduced the 'Brussels my love?' European affairs talk show. |
| July 2022 | Alpac Capital finalizes purchase of an 88% controlling stake in Euronews, following approval from the French government. |
| June 2022 | The National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine appealed to Euronews leadership, accusing the network of promoting a pro-Kremlin narrative in Russian-language broadcasts. CEO Guillaume Dubois responded, defending the network's coverage and expressing solidarity with Ukraine. |
| June 2022 | Guillaume Dubois, a former broadcasting director at LCI, was appointed as the new CEO of Euronews, taking over leadership of the organization. |
| May 25 2022 | Started broadcasting Euronews Romania, covering Romania and the Republic of Moldova. |
| May 25 2022 | Euronews launched its Romanian language service |
| May 5 2022 | Launched Euronews Bulgaria, starting broadcasting in Bulgarian language. |
| April 7 2022 | Euronews' original broadcast frequencies were handed over to a new channel operated by sanctioned state TV journalist Vladimir Solovyov. |
| March 2022 | Roskomnadzor ordered restrictions on Euronews access in Russia, including online services, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2021 | Teamed up with Politehnica University of Bucharest to launch a Romanian language channel. |
| 2021 | Liubov Tsybulska, chair of the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security, claimed that Kremlin influence was visible in Euronews' reporting, not just in Russian-language material but also in English-language news presentation. |
| 2021 | Signed partnership with TV Europa to launch a Bulgarian language channel. |
| July 2021 | Euronews launched the 'Euronews Witness' current affairs series. |
| June 3 2021 | Euronews launched its Serbian language service |
| April 2021 | Belarus Ministry of Information ceased Euronews broadcasting within its territory, replacing it with Channel One Russia's Pobeda channel, citing violations of advertisement language legislation. Euronews was not notified prior to the decision and expressed regret over being removed from Belarusian media. |
| 2020 | Euronews Radio service was shut down after approximately 8 years of operation. |
| August 31 2020 | Euronews launched its Georgian language service |
| July 2020 | Africanews production moved from Pointe-Noire to Euronews headquarters in Lyon, with a planned reduction in costs of at least 30%. |
| April 20 2020 | NBCUniversal sells its stake in Euronews to Media Globe Networks for €3 million. |
| 2019 | Prime Edition and Late Edition programs were discontinued |
| 2019 | Launched first franchise, Euronews Albania, through a joint venture with RTV In in Tirana, covering Western Balkans countries. |
| November 21 2019 | Euronews launched its Albanian language service |
| October 2019 | Raw Politics and Raw Politics: Your Call programs were discontinued |
| 2018 | Euronews published an online report about children in Russian-annexed Crimea being trained to defuse landmines, which was widely criticized by Ukrainian media and officials, including Ukraine's EU representative Mykola Tochytskyi and foreign ministry spokesperson Mariana Betsa. |
| 2018 | Euronews began licensing its name to private and public broadcasters in southern, central, and eastern Europe to create localized news channels in different languages. |
| September 17 2018 | Introduction of Euronews Tonight, a 5-hour evening rolling news show initially presented by Sam Naz. |
| September 3 2018 | Launch of Raw Politics, a politics-focused evening program hosted by Tesa Arcilla and featuring Darren McCaffrey. |
| July 17 2018 | Debut of Euronews Now, a six-hour breaking news show anchored by Tokunbo Salako. |
| May 22 2018 | Launch of Good Morning Europe, a five-hour morning show, with Tesa Arcilla initially anchoring and Belle Donati later becoming the main anchor. |
| January 2018 | Euronews closed its Turkish language service |
| July 25 2017 | Restoration of the German-language channel on Astra 1L satellite following initial discontinuation. |
| May 24 2017 | Completion of Euronews' language split process, resulting in changes to satellite distribution and some language edition discontinuations. |
| May 22 2017 | Euronews closed its Ukrainian language service |
| May 9 2017 | Euronews begins splitting its services into twelve separate language editions, with nine retaining linear TV channels and localized content presentation. |
| April 2017 | Euronews further changed its audio codec from AAC to MPEG. |
| March 2017 | Euronews changed its audio codec from AC3 to AAC format. |
| March 31 2017 | Euronews closed its Polish language service |
| February 2017 | NBCUniversal finalizes purchase of a 25% stake in Euronews for €25 million, with Deborah Turness appointed to head international operations and Michael Peters becoming CEO of the new partnership. |
| 2016 | Euronews SA is co-owned by Media Globe Networks, regional authorities, and 21 international broadcasters from various countries including Czech Republic, Cyprus, Algeria, Egypt, Greece, and others. |
| November 2016 | Euronews executive board enters talks with NBCUniversal for a strategic partnership, potentially allowing NBC to acquire 15-30% ownership of the network. |
| November 2 2016 | Euronews began high-definition (HD) broadcasting via satellite using Hot Bird-capacities with English audio only. |
| October 2016 | Russia-1 broadcast a report by correspondent Evgeniy Poddubny accusing Euronews of producing an 'anti-Russian fake about Syria' during the Battle of Aleppo. |
| September 2016 | Euronews was removed from the Freesat channel list in the UK, a move made by Sawiris. |
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