Channel 13 ( he, ערוץ 13), formally known as Reshet 13 ( he, רשת 13), is an Israeli
free-to-air
Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA Receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring ...
television channel owned by RGE Media Group and
Reshet
Reshet ( he, רשת, ''lit.'' "Network") is an Israeli television broadcasting and production company. It was one of the two concessionaires running the Television in Israel, Israeli commercial television channel, Channel 2 (Israel), Channel 2 fr ...
. It was launched on 1 November 2017 as one of two replacements of the outgoing
Channel 2. Channel 13 also known as Nana 13 and Reshet 13 and broadcasting in Hebrew.
History
Israel's
Channel 2 was operated by the
Second Authority for Television and Radio, but was programmed by two rotating companies,
Keshet Media Group
Keshet Media Group, also known as the Keshet company ( he, קשת lit. "Rainbow"), is a private Israeli mass media company, which is headquartered in Tel Aviv. Its media and online news outlet Mako is one of the major Israeli ones.
The company ...
and Reshet. As part of a larger series of reforms to Israel's broadcast system to increase diversity and competition, Channel 2 was shut down, and both broadcasters were granted their own, separate channels. Reshet 13 officially launched on 1 November 2017, alongside
Keshet 12
Channel 12 ( he, ערוץ 12), also known as Keshet 12 ( he, קשת 12), is an Israeli free-to-air television channel owned by Keshet Media Group. It launched on 1 November 2017 as one of two replacements of the outgoing Channel 2.
History
Isr ...
. The
Israel Television News Company continued to provide news programmes for both channels; the main primetime bulletin is simulcast by both channels, while other programs are divided among the two channels.
In June 2018, due to financial issues caused by the 2017 Channel 2 split, RGE (owner of
Channel 10) filed a merger with this channel's parent company Reshet. In October 2018, Reshet announced that the merger had cancelled. Reshet's owners have since reconsidered the merger, and after a long battle with the Second Authority, the merger was approved,
and was scheduled for January 16, 2019. The merger saw certain programmes previously shown on Channel 10 moved to Reshet 13, which subsequently changed its name to channel 13, with the new slogan "everything connects".
Programming
News
Being one of two direct replacements of
Channel 2, Reshet 13 have broadcast news programmes produced by
Israel Television News Company (which produced ''HaHadashot 2'' for Channel 2), a company Reshet jointly owned with
Keshet.
Following the merger between Reshet and Channel 10, Reshet 13 took resources and programmes from Channel 10's news production company, which then changed on-air branding to ''HaHadashot 13''. Reshet sold its stake in the News Company to Keshet.
See also
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List of programs broadcast by Channel 2 (Israel)
This is a list of programs currently, formerly, and soon to be broadcast by the Israeli Channel 2.
Currently broadcast by Channel 2 Channel 2 productions
* '' Channel 2 prime time news'' (1993–present) – currently hosted by Yonit Levi
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List of television channels in Israel
This is a list of television channels available on digital terrestrial, satellite and cable systems in Israel. Channels shown in bright green are available free-to-air with Israel DTT service, called "Idan Plus". Channels which are in a paler gree ...
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Channel 13 News
''Hadashot 13'' ( he, חדשות 13, lit= hannel13 News) is one of the three major brands of Israeli television news programmes. Produced for Reshet 13 by ''Hadashot 10 LTD'' ( he, חדשות 10 בע״מ, lit=10 News Ltd.), a subsidiary of Reshet. ...
References
External links
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