A Russian audio track was added in 2001, following VGTRK joining as one of the major shareholders. That same year, a Portuguese audio track was added. The broadcast switched from solely analogue to mainly digital transmission in 1999. ITN supplied the content of the channel along with the remaining shareholders. In late 1997, the British news broadcaster ITN purchased a 49% share of Euronews for £5.1 million from Alcatel-Lucent. It was founded by a group of ten public broadcasters: An additional broadcast studio was set up in London in 1996. The channel's first broadcast was on 1 January 1993 from Écully, Lyon. In 1992, following the 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. It is a provider of livestreamed news, which can be viewed in most of the world via its website, on YouTube, and on various mobile devices and digital media players.

The majority of Euronews (88%) 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. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and covers world news from a European perspective. Watch live (except in Turkey, Singapore, China, Cuba, and North Korea) or Watch live worldwideĮuronews (styled on-air in lowercase as euronews) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)

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