I24NEWS

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i24NEWS
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Country Israel
Broadcast areaWorldwide
Affiliates Israel Television News Company
Headquarters
Programming
Language(s) English, Spanish, French, Arabic
Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner Patrick Drahi
History
Launched17 July 2013;10 years ago (2013-07-17)
Availability
Streaming media
i24news.tv En , Fr , Ar

i24NEWS is an Israeli-based international 24-hour news television channel located in Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv, Israel. [1] It broadcasts in French, English, and Arabic. English channel offers a weekly magazine in Spanish. The channel's owner is Patrick Drahi, and the CEO is Frank Melloul.

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In February 2017, i24NEWS expanded into the North American market and opened bureaus in the United States. [2] The channel has studios in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Paris, New York, Washington and Los Angeles, and deploys correspondents in other locations across the world. [3] In September 2021, following the Abraham Accords, the channel received a broadcasting license from the United Arab Emirates and opened its Gulf bureau in Dubai Media City. [4] [5] [6] In May 2022, the channel launched its operations in Morocco with two new bureaus in Rabat and Casablanca. [7]

History

The channel went live on 17 July 2013. Melloul stated that it would battle prejudice and ignorance about Israel with "facts and diversity". [8] [9]

Arab Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish was the lead anchor of the English-language branch of the channel from July 2013 until she left in January 2016.

On 8 December 2016 all programming on the English channel officially ended in preparation for launching in America. The channel broadcast 10 minutes of news on the Hour from 8 am to 11 pm (local time) and replaced "Morning Edition", "The Daily Beat" and "The Lineup" with a 26-minute news bulletin, repeated at half past.

The launch of i24NEWS in the United States was announced on 27 January 2017. The channel is operated out of its headquarters in Jaffa.

Live programming in the US is broadcast from Times Square in New York with an additional bureau in Washington, DC. Approximately 50 journalists were hired to staff the two locations. The channel uses resources from its Jaffa headquarters.

Among the first journalists hired were Michelle Makori, anchor and editor-in-chief, David Shuster who is also a managing editor and Dan Raviv (a 40+ year veteran of CBS News). The channel acquired many of its debut behind-the-scenes talent from the former Al Jazeera America.

Haaretz, in a report on 2 December 2019, indicated that i24NEWS, in order to secure an English broadcast license, gave Benjamin Netanyahu more positive coverage. [10] The channel denied the allegations.

In 2020, following the Abraham Accords, i24NEWS signed a various of MoU [11] and partnership agreements with leading companies in the UAE. i24NEWS became the first Israel-based channel to be broadcast in the UAE. In 2021 the channel received a UAE broadcast license and launched its studios [12] in Dubai Media City, the regional hub for media organizations in the Gulf.

In 2022, i24NEWS launched its operations in Morocco [13] and the opening of two bureaus in Rabat and Casablanca, from which the channel operates its studios. [14]

Distribution

i24NEWS started broadcasting in Israel on August 29, 2018. [15] It is offered in France (including the French West Indies), Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland and across the African continent. The channel is also streamed live on its website in all three languages.

The channel signed an agreement enabling it to be broadcast in Germany on Kabel Deutschland. [16] i24NEWS was initially broadcast in the United States via the Jewish Life Television network, [17] but following the acquisition of Cablevision by Drahi-owned Altice USA (formerly Cablevision with a public brand of Optimum), i24NEWS is now broadcast on many US cable and TV operators, among them: Optimum channel 14, Suddenlink channel 49, Mediacom channel 228, Xfinity channel 1118, Spectrum and others. [18]

i24NEWS English is available in the UK, along with a number of other international news channels, via online video subscription service NewsPlayer+. [19]

In January 2021, i24NEWS became the first Israeli-based channel available in the UAE, on the country's leading content provider Etisalat. [20] Later that year, DU became the second operator to add the channel to its subscribers in the UAE. [21]

Starting October 2021, i24NEWS is available in Australia on Flash streaming service. [22]

i24NEWS English programming [23]

In addition to up-to-the-minute news, the channel also features a variety of current affairs shows and reports on such subjects as economy, defense, sport, hi-tech and other topics. Culture magazine shows and special interviews are broadcast between the hourly news updates.

i24NEWS French programming [24]

i24NEWS Arabic programming [25]

One of i24NEWS control rooms in Tel Aviv-Jaffa studios I24news Tel Aviv Yaffo 14 juillet 2014-10.jpg
One of i24NEWS control rooms in Tel Aviv-Jaffa studios

Broadcasting

High-definition (HD) broadcasting was started in March 2017 via satellite using Hot Bird 13C-capacities (French and English feed only).

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