EuroNews, Europe’s leading news TV channel, and Local Media Television, the largest local TV group in Spain, have signed an agreement to distribute one hour of the news TV channel through 191 member local TV stations every day.
From Monday to Thursday, from 0700 to 0800 and on Fridays from 0715 to 0815, Spaniards will be able to watch EuroNews through Local Media TV network stations throughout the country. Every day, EuroNews will broadcast the latest International news from an European perspective, including economy, press review, Europe, sports and a complete meteo info.
With this agreement, EuroNews has fully broken into the local TV market in Spain, where more than 15 million homes already receive the channel’s signal.
The agreement also strengthens Local Media’s position in the Spanish local TV market and its news offer with now more than 2 daily hours of news programmes (EuroNews and Diario Nacional at 1450 and 2150).
Local Media is the first independent local TV group in Spain. Created in 1994, today it has 115 affiliated terrestrial TV channels and another 76 cable stations in the country with a daily reach of more than 1.6 million viewers and 7.5 million on a month basis, according to Sofres.
Local Media is also present in the Spanish DTT market with 22 DTT licences in Galicia, Baleares Islands, Catalonia, Asturias, Aragon, Valencia and Murcia regions.