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In 2005 the Commission signed a service contract with EuroNews to cover EU affairs in its news and magazines, under a strict editorial independence charter. The contract covers the production and distribution costs of the EU programmes. It was signed on the basis of the existing seven languages – German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian – and state of distribution. It does not contain any obligation for the channel to increase its geographical coverage or the number of languages. Nevertheless, the contract provides that however much the coverage or the languages increased during the life of the contract, the EU programmes would be included.
One of the selection criteria was the capacity and the will of EuroNews to develop its geographical and language coverage. Since the contract was signed, a window has been opened in Romania and in the Romanian language; agreements have been signed in India, China and elsewhere.
EuroNews is also diversifying the various distribution technologies through which it can be received: cable, DTT, mobile phones, etc. However, distribution is a commercial matter over which only EuroNews has full command. Obviously, the Commission is encouraging EuroNews to increase by all the means under its control its geographical distribution technologies and language coverage.
As far as Lithuania is concerned, at present only 49 000 households out of 1.33 million are able to receive EuroNews via cable or satellite. EuroNews is a candidate to be distributed via digital terrestrial television, Lietuvos Telekomas, and hoping for a positive answer. Moreover, negotiations are on course with the public channel, LRT, which would permit LRT to broadcast EuroNews programmes on their Hertzian base frequencies as often as they like. A Lithuanian window, similar to the Romanian one, is also currently under discussion."@en1
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