Country | France |
---|---|
Broadcast area | 32 African countries
|
Headquarters |
Lyon, France (formerly Pointe-Noire, Congo) |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English, French |
Picture format |
576i (
16:9 and
4:3) (
SDTV), 1080i ( HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Euronews |
History | |
Launched | 20 April 2016 |
Links | |
Website |
www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
GOtv | Channel 47 |
DStv | Channel 417 |
Zuku TV | Channel 514 |
AzamTV | Channel 235 |
StarTimes | Channel 272 |
Africanews (styled as africanews) is a 24/7 pan-African multilingual news network located in Lyon, France previously headquartered in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. The news channel began broadcasting online, and via TV and satellite on 20 April 2016. [1] The newsroom has 30 journalists and around 55 technical staffers.[ citation needed]
Like its sister channel Euronews, Africanews runs news and weather summaries every half-hour.
Currently, the programs are broadcast in both English and French - most on-screen graphics and captions are bilingual. In 2016, the channel planned to expand and accommodate most of the continents' population and roll out Swahili, Arabic, Dutch/Afrikaans, Spanish and Portuguese content soon. [2]
The channel currently is broadcast in 33 sub-Saharan countries and is accessible to 7.3 million homes via satellite and digital terrestrial television networks. [3] Africanews is available in the UK, along with a number of other international news channels, via online video subscription service NewsPlayer+ [4] and alongside Euronews on Freeview channel 271 via the Channelbox free streaming service. [5]