This is a list of international news channels, categorised by
continent
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.
International news Channel networks with channels in several languages
Other news channels aimed specifically at international audience
* Georgia:
PIK was a Caucasus-focused news channel broadcasting in Russian in 2010-2012.
* Japan:
NHK World-Japan
NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese State media, state-controlled public broadcaster NHK. Its services are aimed at the overseas market, similar to those offered by other nationa ...
(English).
* Lebanon:
Al Mayadeen
Al Mayadeen ( Arabic: الميادين; The Plazas) is a pan-Arabist satellite news television channel launched on 11 June 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. Its programming is predominantly news. It has news reporters in most Arab countries. In the pan- ...
is an Arabic channel associated with Syria's president
Bashar al-Assad.
Al-Manar
Al-Manar ( ar, المنار, ''al-Manār'', lit='' The Lighthouse'') is a Lebanese satellite television station owned and operated by the political party Hezbollah, is a Hezbollah-affiliated Arabic news channel.
Al Jadeed also brands itself as a pan-Arab channel.
* South Korea:
Arirang
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(English).
* Philippines:
ANC
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is a 24-hour Philippine-based English-language cable channel owned by
ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN (an initialism of its two predecessors' names, Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network) is a Philippine commercial broadcast network that serves as the flagship property of ABS-CBN Corporation, a company unde ...
, the largest media conglomerate in the country aimed at businessmen and
Filipinos working abroad.
* Saudi Arabia:
Al Arabiya
Arabiya ( ar, العربية, transliterated: '; meaning "The Arabic One" or "The Arab One") is an international Arabic news television channel, currently based in Dubai, that is operated by the media conglomerate MBC.
The channel is a fl ...
is a Saudi-owned UAE-based pan-Arab television news channel.
* Ukraine:
Jewish News One (2011-2014) was a privately owned Ukrainian news channel aimed at international Jewish audience, broadcasting in English and Russian. After the start of the war in Donbas the channel was rebranded as
Ukraine Today
Ukraine Today was a Ukraine-based private English language satellite television channel, then webcasting service. The channel, which was owned by the Ukrainian 1+1 group and headquartered in Kyiv, presented round-the-clock news bulletins aimed ...
with exclusively English programming. It ceased operations in 2017. Government-managed
UATV started test broadcasts in October 2015; as of 2017 it produced news bulletins in English, Arabic, Russian, Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian. Non-profit
Hromadske.TV runs its English programs as Hromadske International.
* US:
Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is the state-owned news network and international radio broadcaster of the United States of America. It is the largest and oldest U.S.-funded international broadcaster. VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content ...
offers TV programming in numerous languages available online and aired as blocks by foreign networks.
CurrentTime TV is a joint effort by VOA and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to produce a 24/7 TV service in Russian.
Alhurra is an Arabic-language state-funded satellite TV news channel.
TV Martí
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is another American governmental TV service, broadcasting for Cuba in Spanish.
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is hea ...
is a privately owned international business news channel. Its Indonesian version
Bloomberg TV Indonesia was functioning in 2013-2015.
* Pan-African:
Africa 24,
Presse Africaine,
Africable (French),
A24 news channel,
Arise News
Arise News is a London-based world news channel. It has studios in New York City, London, Johannesburg, Abuja and Lagos. The channel features African, US and European content. It is operated by Arise Broadcasting Ltd., which is owned by Nigerian ...
,
Africa Independent Television
Africa Independent Television, also known by its acronym AIT, is a privately owned television broadcaster in Nigeria. It operates Free To Air in Nigeria as the largest privately operated terrestrial television network with stations in twenty-fo ...
,
TVC News
TVC News is a Nigerian news 24 hour television news channel based in Lagos. The channel airs on British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSKYb) in the UK, Naspers Ltd. (NPN)'s DStv and Startimes in Nigeria, and Multi TV in Ghana.
Former CEO Nigel P ...
(English).
* Portugal:
RTP África
RTP África is a Portuguese television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). It is available in the Portuguese-speaking African countries, where it is available as a basic cable and s ...
is a pay television channel aimed at the
Portuguese-speaking African countries, owned by the
public broadcasting organisation of Portugal (RTP).
*
RTVI is a channel oriented at Russian-speaking audiences worldwide, but unavailable in Russia.
*
NTDTV
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) is a multilingual American television broadcaster, founded by adherents of the Falun Gong new religious movement and based in New York City. The station was founded in 2001 as a Chinese-language ...
is an international channel affiliated with
Falun Gong
Falun Gong (, ) or Falun Dafa (; literally, "Dharma Wheel Practice" or "Law Wheel Practice") is a new religious movement.Junker, Andrew. 2019. ''Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora'', pp. 23–24, 33, 119 ...
new religious movement.
*
Zee News
Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group. It launched on 27 August 1999 and is the flagship channel of the Zee Media Corporation.
The channel has been involved in several controversies and ha ...
is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by the Essel Group.
News/generalist channels aimed at citizens and relevant language audiences abroad
Most of these are spin-offs of domestic channels, rearranged and refurbished for international broadcasting. All in respective national languages.
By annual budget
References
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