eMedia Network, Inc. (EWN) is an American-based media company that markets and distributes various international television and radio services to ethnic viewers in North America as well as Australia & New Zealand. It was founded in February 2005 and is based in
San Diego
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California
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In 2015, EuroWorld Network underwent a corporate re-branding, the company was renamed eMedia Network.
eMedia Network currently distributes over 20 television channels and 2 radio stations catering to the following ethnic groups: Croatian, Hungarian, Macedonian and Serbian.
Offices
Headquarters
* United States:
San Diego
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* Australia:
Sydney
Sales offices
* Canada:
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. Th ...
and
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most pop ...
* Croatia:
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Sl ...
* Hungary:
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
* Serbia:
Belgrade
Channels
Croatian
*
Slika Hrvatske†
* ''
Voice of Croatia
The International programme of Croatian Radio "Voice of Croatia" ( hr, Međunarodni program Hrvatskoga radija "Glas Hrvatske") is the international service of Croatian state radio via satellite and Internet.
The programme is for Croatians livi ...
''†
*
Klasik TV
Klasik TV is a Croatian 24-hour film channel that was launched by Televizija Classicum d.o.o. in 2010. The channel broadcasts Yugoslav films
This is a list of the most notable Yugoslav cinema films.
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
19 ...
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*
Laudato TV‡
*
Nova World†
*
Posavina TV
Posavina TV is a Bosnian local commercial television channel based in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The program is mainly produced in Croatian
Croatian may refer to:
* Croatia
*Croatian language
*Croatian people
*Croatians (demonym)
See als ...
‡
*
RTL Croatia World
RTL Croatia World is an international TV channel dedicated to Croats living outside Croatia operated by the CME Group as of 1 June 2022. The channel was launched on 11 July 2016.
RTL Croatia World focuses its programming on news and entertainment ...
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*
RTL Televizija
RTL (previously known as RTL Televizija) is a Croatian free-to-air television network founded on 30 April 2004. It was owned by the RTL Group from 2004 to 2022. Since 1 June 2022, it is owned by the CME Group. The logo consisted of three prima ...
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*
Sportska TV‡
*
Z1
Hungarian
*
Duna TV
Duna ( English: ''Duna Channel'', formerly: ''Duna Televízió'') is one of Hungary's public television channels. "Duna" is the Hungarian name for the Danube. Duna has been the ''national main channel'' of the public media MTVA since 15 March ...
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*
Duna World
Duna World is the international television service of Duna Média, the Hungarian public broadcaster. It airs a mix of programming from Duna TV's domestic channels, together with special programmes aimed at the Hungarian diaspora in Europe, Africa, ...
†
*
Echo TV
Echo TV was a Christian-conservative Hungarian television channel owned and operated by Echo Hungária TV Zrt, and founded in 2005 to cover business news. ‡
*
Hír TV
Hír TV is a Hungarian television news channel, the first of such made in the country. It began broadcasting on 2 January 2003.
History Initial years
On 26 November 2002, the TV channel was registered using 20 million Hungarian forints (~64 ...
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*
M1‡
*
M2‡
*
M4 Sport
M4 or M-4 most often refers to:
* M4 carbine, an American carbine
* M4 Sherman, an American World War II medium tank
M4, M04, or M-4 may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* M4 (EP), ''M4'' (EP), a 2006 EP by Faunts
* M4 (video game), ''M ...
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*
RTL+
RTL may refer to:
Media
* RTL Group, a European TV, radio, and production company
** RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg, usually referred to simply as RTL
** RTL (German TV channel)
** RTL (Hungarian TV channel), formerly known as RTL Klub
** RTL (French radi ...
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*
RTL II
RTL Zwei (stylised as RTLZWEI), formerly spelled RTL 2 and RTL II, is a German-language television channel that is operated by ''RTL2 Television GmbH & Co. KG''. RTL2 is a private television broadcaster with a full program ''(Vollprogramm)'' ...
‡
*
RTL Klub
RTL (formerly: RTL Klub) is a Hungarian free-to-air television channel owned by RTL Group. The channel began broadcasting three days after its main rival TV2, one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels.
History
Since its start, RTL Klub ...
‡
*
TV2‡
Macedonian
*
Alfa TV
Alfa TV was a former pay television service available in Cyprus, that broadcast sports and children's programming as well as the odd film. It was owned by Alfa TV Ltd. and was launched in 1998. Alfa TV was one of only 2 pay-TV services in Cyprus, ...
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*
ERA TV
An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.
Co ...
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*
MRT 1
MRT 1 (МРТ 1) is a television station in North Macedonia owned and operated by Macedonian Radio-Television.
Current line-up News shows
*''Dnevnik MRT'' - main news at 10:00, 17:00, 19:30, and 23:00
*''MRT Vesti'' - news, runs at 13:00, and ...
†
*
MRT 2
The Light Rail Transit Line 2, also known as LRT Line 2 (LRT-2) or Megatren, is a rapid transit line in Metro Manila in the Philippines, generally running in an east–west direction along the Radial Road 6 and a portion of the Circumferenti ...
†
Serbian
*
DM Sat‡
*
K3‡
*
OTV Valentino
Obiteljska televizija Valentino or OTV Valentino is a Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of s ...
‡
*
Pink
Pink is the color of a namesake flower that is a pale tint of red. It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, ...
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*
RTS Sat
RTS Svet (Serbian Cyrillic: РТС СBEТ, or RTS WORLD ( sr, РТС СBEТ/); Satellite program of RTS (/ )) is a Serbian satellite television channel. It is operated by RTS.
Audience
The channel is aimed at Serbs living abroad.
History
T ...
†
* ''
Radio Belgrade
Radio Belgrade ( sr, Радио Београд, ) is a state-owned and operated radio station in Belgrade, Serbia. It has four different programs (Radio Belgrade 1, Radio Belgrade 2, Radio Belgrade 3, and Radio Belgrade 202), a precious archive ...
''†
*
RTRS
Radio Television of Republika Srpska ( Serbian: ''Радио Телевизија Републике Српске'' / Radio Televizija Republike Srpske or RTRS) is the entity-level public broadcaster which operates radio and television services ...
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*
RTV 1‡
*
RTV 2‡
*
SerbianTV-America
NOTE:
† - Available via Satellite & IPTV
‡ - Available via IPTV only
Availability
eMedia Network channels are distributed via satellite on the following platforms:
Galaxy-19 at 97°W (North America coverage) and
Optus D2
This is a list of the satellites operated by Optus, an Australian telecommunications company. The satellite communications facility is located at Belrose on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Optus' satellites are divided into 4 classes A, B, C and D. As ...
at 152° East (Australia and New Zealand coverage). In addition, eMedia Network operate its own IPTV platform iON, which is available in North America and Australia. The IPTV service originally launched in partnership with Canadian ethnic broadcaster Ethnic Channels Group as NEXTV America & NEXTV Australia. However, in 2015 the service was re-launched as ''iON'' with eMedia Network taking over full control alongside new broadcast partne
GSS Media
World Media International
On August 21, 2013, eMedia Network announced a partnership with Australian Pay-TV provider
World Media International
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to create an IPTV platform for their services.
World Media International and EURO World Network Deliver IPTV Television Solution to Viewers in Australia and New Zealand
/ref> Through this agreement EWN distributed the following channels for WMI via IPTV:
*Arabic (Al Hayat TV
Alhayat TV, also known as Life TV ( ar, قناة الحياة), is an evangelical Christian Arabic-language television channel that airs in countries in North Africa, West Asia, the Middle East, America, Canada, Australia and some of Europe. 2, Al Kahera wa Al Nas, Al Jadeed
''Al Jadeed'' ( ar, الجديد, ''al-Jadīd'', lit=''the new'', en, New TV) is an independent Lebanese TV station. Based in Beirut, it is one of the leading TV channels in Lebanon. It was launched in 1992 and closed in 1997 due to Syrian ...
, Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazee ...
, Al Jazeera Sports
beIN Sports MENA ( ar, بي إن سبورتس العربية) is a subsidiary of beIN Sports. It is based in Doha, Qatar, serving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. They are owned by beIN Media Group, a former subsidiary of Al Jaze ...
, Al Tahrir TV, ART Hekayat, ART Movies
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
, ART Variety, BBC Arabic
BBC Arabic ( ar, بي بي سي عربي) may refer to the Literary Arabic language radio station run by the BBC World Service, as well as the BBC's satellite TV channel, and the website that serves as an Literary Arabic language news portal and ...
, Cima Channel, Future News, Future Television
Future Television ( ar, تلفزيون المستقبل, ''Televiziyon al-Mustaqbal'') was a Lebanese free-to-air television station founded in 1993 by the Future Movement leader Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. Future TV was als ...
, Iqraa TV
Iqraa TV also spelt IQRA TV ( ar, اقرأ ' "read") is a satellite and internet television channel owned by Saleh Abdullah Kamel's Arab Media Corporation. It was founded in 1998. The channel promotes itself as a "Muslim family's safe hav ...
, MBC, Melody Arabia
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, ''melōidía'', "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combinat ...
Murr Television
Murr Television, marketed and known as MTV Lebanon, is a Lebanese television station based in Naccache, Metn District
Matn ( ar, قضاء المتن, '), sometimes spelled Metn (or preceded by the article El, as in El Matn), is a district ...
, Noursat, OTV & Syria Drama
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
)
*Greek (ANT1 Pacific
ANT1 Pacific (pronounced Antenna) is a subscription TV channel established in 1998. The channel is partly owned by ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece. The alternate spelling is wordplay in Greek; ''e ...
& Greek Cinema
The cinema of Greece has a long and rich history. Though hampered at times by war or political instability, the Greek film industry dominates the domestic market and has experienced international success. Characteristics of Greek cinema include ...
)
*Italian (Mediaset Italia
Mediaset Italia is an international linguistic and cultural television channel, part of the Italian media company Mediaset. Launched in 2009 with the aim to reach Italian communities worldwide, the channel is the international service of Mediase ...
, Rai Italia
Rai Italia is the international English language television service of Rai Internazionale, a subsidiary of RAI, Italy's public national broadcaster. Rai Italia operates a television network that broadcasts around the world via 3 localized feeds ...
& Rai News24
Rai News 24 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's all-news television channel, and is known for its 24-hour rolling news servic ...
)
*Polish ( Toya TV, TV Trwam
TV Trwam is a Polish TV channel in Toruń, Poland, belonging to the Lux Veritatis Foundation.
Ownership and financing
The station is owned by the Warsaw Province of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer and is financed through donations f ...
, TVP Info
TVP Info is a Polish free-to-air television news channel, run by the public broadcaster, state media TVP. It is focused on newscasts, airing nationwide news bulletins from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Its main offices are located at the TVP ...
, TVP Polonia
TVP Polonia (formerly known as TV Polonia) is the international channel of the Telewizja Polska (TVP). The channel is co-funded by the TVP and the Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and broadcasts from the TVP headquarters in Warsaw.
TVP Pol ...
, TVS TVS may refer to:
Mathematics
* Topological vector space
Television
* Television Sydney, TV channel in Sydney, Australia
* Television South, ITV franchise holder in the South of England between 1982 and 1992
* TVS Television Network, US dis ...
)
As of 2017, these channels are no longer distributed by eMedia Network.
See also
* Satellite Telecommunications Network
* Intelsat
Intelsat S.A. (formerly INTEL-SAT, INTELSAT, Intelsat) is a multinational satellite services provider with corporate headquarters in Luxembourg and administrative headquarters in Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States. Originally formed as ...
* Irdeto
* Ethnic Channels Group
* Globecast
Globecast is a service company for the radio, television and media industry, providing solutions for media and content management, aggregation, formatting, processing, transmission and distribution. These contents are feeding various television a ...
Australia
References
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External links
Official site
Mass media companies of the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2004