Antena 3 CNN
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Protection banner". Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Antena 3 Cable News Network, known as Antena 3 CNN, formerly Antena 3 (Script error: No such module "IPA".), is a Romanian news channel owned by Antena 3 S.A. and part of the Intact Media Group.[1] An Exclusive News Partner of CNN International in Romania since September 27, 2022 ,[2][3][4] 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)[5][6][7][8] 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 Serbia 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.[9]
The station's website receives an average between of 300,000 to 400,000 visitors a day[10][11] being one of the most visited Romanian websites on the market. By comparison, Gazeta Sporturilor, a media product owned by Ringier, gets more than one million hits a day.
It is affiliated CNN International since 2011, after CNN ceased their affiliation with Realitatea TV.[12] later becoming a partner channel of CNN in May 2020.[13] 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.[4]
Program
- Sinteza Zilei
- În Gura Presei
- News Hour with CNN
- Newsroom
- 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.[14][15][16][17][18] In a December 2018 article, the international organization Reporters Without Borders 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.[19]
However, since 2016, some of their programmes have broadcast Fox News news materials, reports about possible political implications of George Soros 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 Donald Trump, 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.[20][21][22][23][24][25] 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 Schengen area 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".[26] Template:Citation needed span
References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"."Thus, the Reuters study shows that Romania TV and Antena 3 have the lowest degree of trust out of 15 media taken into consideration."
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"."Thanks to the anti-corruption campaign, a number of well-known media entrepreneurs have been brought to book in the meantime, including Dan Voiculescu, whose media trust Intact owns the private TV channel Antena 3. Voiculescu served nearly three years in prison for money laundering and fraud."
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"."Pro-government channels Romania TV and Antena 3 violated basic journalistic ethics in their coverage of protests in 2017 and 2018 by including false information designed to suggest, for example, that the Hungarian-born US billionaire philanthropist George Soros was behind the protests and that he tried to sway the outcome of the 2016 parliamentary elections. "Romania TV is also behind a smear campaign against the effective anti-corruption unit, the DNA. The owner of Antena 3, Dan Voiculescu, is a convicted criminal, while the owner of Romania TV, Sebastian Ghita, is currently in Serbia awaiting extradition to Romania on a number of corruption charges."
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"."Antena 3 is a constant and voracious supporter of PSD (Social Democrat Party), the current party in power, whose leader, Liviu Dragnea, a politician found guilty of abuse of office, allegedly tries to weaken the justice system and make it subservient to his and PSD’s interests. PSD’s crusade on the judiciary has caused massive street protests in Romania in the last two years. By offering PSD and Dragnea himself a platform to convey their message to the people, Antena 3 helps foster the populist discourse of this party and his leader, exploiting the lack of either legal provisions for or a self-regulated editorial independence."
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1"."The OSCE even names some TV outlets that it considers the worst offenders, such as Intact media group, which controls the most popular TV stations, including market-leader news channel Antena 3, owned by Dan Voiculescu, founder of the Conservative Party, part of the USL ruling coalition."
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External links
- Antena 3 CNN official website (in Romanian)