EuroNews has announced that South Africa-based MultiChoice will carry the Europe’s most-watched international news channel on its DStv platform to more than a million homes.
EuroNews is available on DStvs channel 61 providing MultiChoices customers with access to international news from a European perspective. DStv viewers are able to choose between five language versions of EuroNews: English, French, German, Portuguese or Spanish.
EuroNews is the only international news channel to be available on all satellite platforms in Africa, now available throughout the African continent to 13 million homes as a result of this agreement with MultiChoice. In addition, EuroNews remains the only international news channel to have a full time terrestrial frequency in Africa. It has been available in Kinshasa since 2004.
Philippe Cayla, Chairman and CEO of EuroNews says: “We are very proud and excited to broadcast Europes first 24-hour news channel throughout the whole continent thanks to this agreement with Multichoice. EuroNews has concentrated on global expansion for many years and concluding distribution throughout the sub Saharan continent has been a main priority for EuroNews. Africas continuing development means that it needs strong communication links and more importantly an independent view of world events. EuroNews will be a strong medium for Africa and we hope to forge strong links for the future. We will bring European and international perspectives on world events to our African viewers and provide an insight into European and world cultures.”
Says Aletta Alberts, MultiChoice GM for Content: In the pursuit to acquire the highest quality television content from across the world, MultiChoice aims to ensure there is a choice of programming that is compelling and relevant to subscribers. We are very pleased that the EuroNews channel fulfils all of these prerequisites.
Introducing EuroNews on our bouquet was yet another milestone for us at MultiChoice, which translates into more choice for our subscribers, she said.