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Euronews began broadcasting on the 1st of January 1993, with its inaugural transmission coming from Écully, Lyon. The network was founded by a consortium of ten national public broadcasters under the umbrella of the European Broadcasting Union.
As of July 2023, Lisbon-based investment firm Alpac Capital holds a 97.6% stake in Euronews SA. Alpac Capital completed its acquisition of an 88% controlling stake in July 2022, partly financed by Hungarian state funds, and has since bought out most of the remaining shareholders.
Euronews was founded in response to CNN's dominant role as the preeminent source of 24-hour news coverage during the Persian Gulf War of 1991. The European Broadcasting Union proposed a channel that would present global news from a specifically European perspective.
Euronews launched in five languages on the 1st of January 1993 and expanded over the following decades. The network added its eighteenth language, Polish, on the 15th of January 2025, coinciding with Poland's assumption of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
NBCUniversal's News Group purchased a 25% stake in Euronews in February 2017 for €25 million. By April 2020, NBCUniversal had sold its stake back to Media Globe Networks for €3 million, as the channel's estimated value had fallen to €3.7 million from €67 million in 2015.
Belarus banned Euronews in April 2021, officially citing advertisements broadcast in English rather than Russian or Belarusian, with frequencies transferred to Channel One Russia's Pobeda channel. Russia restricted access to Euronews in late March 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and on the 7th of April handed its original frequencies to a channel operated by state TV journalist Vladimir Solovyov, who had been sanctioned by the European Union.