Africanews
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africanews | |
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Launched | 20 April 2016 |
Picture format | 576i (16:9 and 4:3) (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) |
Slogan | Your Voice |
Language | English, French |
Broadcast area |
33 African countries
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Headquarters | Pointe-Noire, Congo |
Website | www |
Africanews is a 24-hour news channel based out of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo. The news channel is a subsidiary of France-based euronews and began broadcasting online, TV and via Satellite on 20 April 2016.[1]
Broadcast
Languages
Currently the programs are broadcast in both English and French. The channel plans to expand and accommodate most of the continents population and plans to roll out Swahili, Arabic and Portuguese content soon.[2]
Distribution
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]