al-ğazīrä, [al.dʒaˈziː.ra], meaning “The Peninsula”, referring to the Arabic name for the Arabian Peninsula) is a television network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. Initially launched as an Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel with the same name, Al Jazeera has since expanded into a network with several outlets, including the Internet and specialty TV channels in multiple languages, and in several regions of the world.
The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (Spanish Radio and Television Corporation) or Corporación Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) is the state-owned public corporation that assumed the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service from Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE Public Body) in 2007. RTVE is the largest audiovisual group in Spain to broadcast in the Spanish language, and derives its financing both from public funds and advertising.
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin.
Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, ABC News wasn’t a major news player compared to CBS News and NBC News. It wasn’t until Roone Arledge became the President of ABC News that network finally became a major player in news. Arledge, known for experimenting with the broadcast “model,” created many of ABC News’ most popular and enduring programs, including 20/20, World News Tonight, This Week, Nightline, and Primetime Live.
ABC News gained respect in the early 1980s by covering the Iran Hostage Crisis and, later, for covering the 1989 Loma Prieta/San Francisco earthquake live.
Arledge turned ABC News into a broadcasting titan, regularly defeating rivals NBC and CBS. ABC would remain dominant for over two decades.
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known simply as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers and of revenue. It has 26,000 employees in the United Kingdom alone and a budget of more than GBP£4 billion.
Founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd, it was subsequently granted a Royal Charter and made a state-owned corporation in 1927. The corporation produces programmes and information services, broadcasting globally on television, radio, and the Internet. The stated mission of the BBC is “to inform, educate and entertain”; its motto is “Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation”.
The BBC is a quasi-autonomous Public Corporation operating as a public service broadcaster. The Corporation is run by the BBC Trust; however, the BBC is, per its charter, to be “free from both political and commercial influence and answers only to its viewers and listeners”.
Rainews24 is an Italian digital television channel, broadcast via satellite and DTT technology.
The creation of a public channel all-news, anticipated of the Service Contract from RAI and the “Ministero delle comunicazioni”, the Italian Minister of Communications, is in action from 26th April 1999, with the creation of Rainews24, a channel inspired to CNN and BBC.
Sky News is a 24-hour British domestic and international television news channel that started broadcasting on 5 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service, as well as a hourly news radio service in the UK. Broadcast of a 24-hour radio service is due to begin in 2007. It was modelled on the US CNN channel [3].
Although the station is targeted at the UK, it is carried around the world on a number of services. The channel has seven UK and eight foreign offices, and it can call on worldwide News Corp resources.
The usual rolling news schedule is supplemented with a number of landmark programmes and news specials. The station has won many awards over the years.
France 24 (pronounced France Vingt-Quatre on both the French- and English-language edition) is an international news and current affairs television channel. It started broadcasting on 6 December 2006.
Funded by the French government and based in Paris, the channel officially gives a French perspective on world news. Currently it offers variants in English and Arabic in addition to French.
It is run by a partnership between Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions (including France 2 and France 3), with some programmes sourced from Agence France-Presse, Radio France Internationale, TV5MONDE, Arte, EuroNews, and La Chaîne Parlementaire. It is funded by France with an annual budget of approximately €80 million, and is based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris.
