Euranet
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| Broadcast area | Across the European Union |
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| Frequency | FM, Internet |
| First air date | April 2008 |
| Format | International broadcaster |
| Website | http://www.euranet.eu |
Euranet, (European Radio Network) is a consortium of international, national, regional and local European broadcasters. Euranet covers events in Europe from a transnational point of view. Euranet offers a pan-European treatment of information about European affairs, covering both EU institutions and individual member states.
On the initiative of Deutsche Welle (DW) and Radio France Internationale (RFI), 16 international, national, regional and local European broadcasters from 13 EU countries joined forces to create a pan-European media consortium on 25 July 2007. This comprises both public and private broadcasters. The aim of the co-operation is to improve the quality of reporting on and from Europe, and to stimulate discussion about togetherness in Europe to promote a European general public.
The official presentation of the European media consortium Euranet by Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission, took place on 26 February 2008 in Brussels. As the commissioner responsible for institutional relations and communication strategy, Margot Wallström announced that Euranet would receive 5.8 million Euros in financial support from the European Commission over the first five years, while guaranteeing the broadcasters full editorial independence.
In the first year, Euranet programmes were broadcast in the five main languages – German, English, French, Polish and Spanish, as well as five further languages – Bulgarian, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian and Hungarian.
As of July 2012, Euranet brings together 26 professional radio stations, supplemented by 10 campus radios. All of these partnerships allow coverage to be delivered to more than 20 million daily listeners in all 23 official languages of the community. The Euranet network produces and broadcasts annually more than 2.000 hours of EU-related news and magazines with its members adopting a co-operative and collaborative production model and bringing a transnational view to its listeners.
The following radio stations are members of Euranet:
Euranet was launched as a consortium between radio enterprises from different countries of Europe and its activity is governed by a contract of service with the European Commission, which is its only source of funding.
Euranet operates according to two major principles of editorial policy, which are unanimously endorsed by its partners: “non-interference in the programme schedules of partners” and “management by editorial consensus.” Governance is structured around three main bodies (editorial committee, editorial co-ordination and language groups). Euranet’s legal structure was converted in 2009 to facilitate the development of its model, evolving from a simple contractual arrangement as a consortium to a fully integrated legal structure as a “Groupement Européen d’Intérêt Economique” (GEIE).
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