Africanews
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| TV station ( public company ) | |
| Program type | Division program (information) |
| reception | Cable , satellite , Internet , Livestation |
| Image resolution | 576i ( SDTV ) |
| Start of transmission | April 20, 2016 |
| Seat | Lyon , France |
| List of TV channels | |
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Africanews ( spelling : africanews) is a pan-African television station based in Lyon , France , which has been on air since April 20, 2016 with a focus on news . It is the sister station of Euronews . Africanews is currently broadcast via satellite in English and French in sub-Saharan Africa .
The aim of the station is to replace the strongly Western- influenced view of African events with independent, purely African reporting . Working for Africanews aims to break through stereotypes and clichés in African reporting.
developments
The chairman of Euronews - and later Africanews - Michael Peters initiated the Africanews project in 2013.
The start was on January 4, 2016, the website Africanews.com and the appearance in social networks . The broadcast started on April 20, 2016.
The program structure is based on Euronews. The know-how of how the news is spread across the continent has been taken over from Euronews. Africanews was produced in Pointe-Noire for four years . The government of the Republic of the Congo supported the station financially with 37.5 million euros. At times the station employed around 85 people in editorial and technology in Pointe-Noire and 45 correspondents .
It was planned to add other languages later, including Swahili , Lingála , Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. Mame Campbell Toure became the editorial manager of Africanews. The already agreed takeover of the station by the Sipromad group of companies from Madagascar in the amount of 20 million US dollars failed in July 2019. In January 2020, the workforce announced, citing the management, that the station was threatened with closure should none Find buyers. At the time, Africanews had 60 employees from twelve countries. At the end of July 2020, the station moved from Pointe-Noire to the Euronews headquarters in Lyon, France. Those previously employed in Pointe-Noire have been replaced by African journalists based in Europe.
Program structure
- News (news)
- Business
- Sports
- Culture
- Science & Technology (science and technology)
- No Comment (uncommented video contributions)
- Programs (magazine articles)
Web links
- africanews.com (English, French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Euronews - africanews goes on air (April 18, 2016)
- ^ Africanews quitte l'Afrique et balaie son personnel africain. In: Médiatude. July 30, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Euronews - impartial news for Africa: euronews sister station africanews goes live ( Memento from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (January 4, 2016)
- ↑ Euronews - euronews sister company africanews launches (January 4, 2016)
- ^ Congo: pourquoi la vente d'Africanews à Sipromad a été suspendue - Jeune Afrique. November 18, 2019, accessed August 4, 2020 (French).
- ↑ APANEWS: Fermeture annoncée d'Africanews: les agents la jugent “insupportable”. Retrieved January 18, 2020 (French).
- ^ Hind Talha: Fermeture d'Africanews: l'ensemble des employés en colère. In: YECLO.com. January 15, 2020, accessed January 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Lyonmag.com. In: Africanews, la déclinaison africaine d'Euronews, débarque à Lyon. July 20, 2020, accessed on August 4, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Ange NGO: Africanews essuie un échec en Afrique et quitte la République du Congo. In: cameroun24.net. Accessed August 4, 2020 (French).