Antena 3 Cable News Network, known as Antena 3 CNN, formerly Antena 3 (), is a

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n news channel owned by Antena 3 S.A. and part of the Intact Media Group. An Exclusive News Partner of

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in Romania since September 27, 2022 , it focuses on news programmes and current events, mainly with political and economic topics. It was launched on June 27, 2005 as the third Romanian 24-hour news channel, after Realitatea TV being the first television channel launched in 2001 and N24 being the second television channel launched in 2004, which was later transformed into a generalist television channel in 2010. It is one of the most viewed Romanian news channels, leading in television ratings on the news segment in prime-time hours together with Romania TV (mostly above and sometimes second to Antena 3 CNN in ratings) The station is one of the five Romanian TV channels that have live anchors from 06:00 every morning to 01:00 every night. Antena 3 CNN was also distributed in

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in the Romanian language-extra package of the DTH platform Digi TV. The official website of the TV channel hosts all daily shows which are made available for watching in an archive that is generally reloaded every month. Starting 2006 the TV channel also allowed online users to watch it live on the internet on its official website, and now on their on-demand subscription service Antenaplay. Furthermore, since October 29, 2020, the 3FM radio station (currently only in Bucharest) also airs all of Antena 3 CNN's programmes. The station's website receives an average between of 300,000 to 400,000 visitors a day being one of the most visited Romanian websites on the market. By comparison, Gazeta Sporturilor, a media product owned by

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, gets more than one million hits a day. It is affiliated

since 2011, after CNN ceased their affiliation with Realitatea TV. later becoming a partner channel of CNN in May 2020. Its main news program is ''News Hour with CNN'', broadcasting from Monday to Friday at 18:00 EET/ EEST, while its other television programs that are notable for airing on Antena 3 CNN include ''Sinteza zilei'', ''În gura presei'', ''În fața națiunii'', ''Decisiv'', ''NewsRoom'', ''Exces de putere'', ''Descoperiți'', ''Subiectiv'' and ''Gătit la costum'', among others.

Program

* Sinteza Zilei * În Gura Presei * News Hour with CNN *

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* Subiectiv * În fața națiunii * Exces de Putere * Income Magazine * Știrile Dimineții * Decisiv * News Magazine * iThink * Descoperiți * Numai de Bine * ''Gătit la costum''

Controversies

Throughout its existence, Antena 3 has been criticized and fined for misinformation, manipulation and partisanship in relation to Romanian politics. In a December 2018 article, the international organization

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opined that Antena 3 is being used as a tool for media propaganda while expressing concern about the sharp decline in press freedom in Romania. However, since 2016, some of their programmes have broadcast Fox News news materials, reports about possible political implications of

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in civic movements, funded NGO's and protests in Romania and most of their head anchors showed support and sympathy during the 2016 U.S. elections to candidate and former U.S. President

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, holding generally a right-wing like attitude in these topic, even though their channel is against most right-wing political parties in Romania, except for ALDE. The channel is widely viewed as untrustworthy. It recently showed a soft-eurosceptic attitude after heads of the European Commission cautioned and criticised the Romanian government for the penal code modifications which might affect the rule of law in Romania, but generally swings after Jean Claude Juncker's positive view of Romania entering the

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and after saying that "Romania is ready to take the presidency of the EU Council", that contradicts Iohannis' negative remarks that "the Romanian government is not ready to take the responsibility of the presidency".

References

External links

Antena 3 CNN official website
(in Romanian) {{commons category, Antena 3 CNN Television channels and stations established in 2005 24-hour television news channels in Romania Television stations in Romania