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Thu, 08/11/2011 - 05:03
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Yonhap News TV signs broadcast cooperation accord with Russian TV
MOSCOW, Aug. 11 (Yonhap) -- Yonhap News TV said Thursday that it has concluded a cooperation agreement with Russia Today (RT), a Moscow-based 24-hour news-only channel, ahead of the launch of its broadcasting service in South Korea later this year.
Under the agreement signed between Kim Chang-hoe, executive director of Yonhap News TV, and Alexey Nikolov, president and CEO of RT, in Moscow Wednesday, the two companies will exchange video news content, documentary programs, interviews and broadcast personnel, company officials said.
They said the deal will allow the two companies to use each other's video news content on large-scale disasters and accidents, interviews with experts and influential figures as well as special news programs and documentary products. The two parties also agreed to promote exchanges between their professional manpower.
"Yonhap News TV's purpose of establishment -- to deliver news from Korea and Asia's points of view, not Western countries -- has much in common with that of RT -- to bring the Russian view on global news," Kim said after signing the agreement. "I hope Yonhap News TV and Russia Today will cooperate in a constructive way in many fields."
Nikolov also expressed hope for mutually beneficial constructive cooperation while pledging to extend all necessary assistance to the new all-news South Korean TV channel.
Yonhap News TV is an affiliate of Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's key newswire service that produces content for newspapers, broadcasters, Internet portals, the government and private enterprises, distributing some 3,000 news articles per day. Yonhap has 62 reporting staff in 46 major cities in 35 countries as well as the most extensive nationwide network in South Korea, and provides daily news in Korean, Arabic, English, Japanese, Chinese, French and Spanish.
Launched as an English-language news channel in December 2005, RT currently broadcasts news and current affairs 24 hours a day through satellite and cable networks to 100 countries in five continents in English, Spanish and Arabic. It broadcasts from its headquarters in Moscow and its studio in Washington, D.C., and also has bureaus in Miami, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Delhi and Tel Aviv.
Under the agreement signed between Kim Chang-hoe, executive director of Yonhap News TV, and Alexey Nikolov, president and CEO of RT, in Moscow Wednesday, the two companies will exchange video news content, documentary programs, interviews and broadcast personnel, company officials said.
They said the deal will allow the two companies to use each other's video news content on large-scale disasters and accidents, interviews with experts and influential figures as well as special news programs and documentary products. The two parties also agreed to promote exchanges between their professional manpower.
"Yonhap News TV's purpose of establishment -- to deliver news from Korea and Asia's points of view, not Western countries -- has much in common with that of RT -- to bring the Russian view on global news," Kim said after signing the agreement. "I hope Yonhap News TV and Russia Today will cooperate in a constructive way in many fields."
Nikolov also expressed hope for mutually beneficial constructive cooperation while pledging to extend all necessary assistance to the new all-news South Korean TV channel.
Yonhap News TV is an affiliate of Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's key newswire service that produces content for newspapers, broadcasters, Internet portals, the government and private enterprises, distributing some 3,000 news articles per day. Yonhap has 62 reporting staff in 46 major cities in 35 countries as well as the most extensive nationwide network in South Korea, and provides daily news in Korean, Arabic, English, Japanese, Chinese, French and Spanish.
Launched as an English-language news channel in December 2005, RT currently broadcasts news and current affairs 24 hours a day through satellite and cable networks to 100 countries in five continents in English, Spanish and Arabic. It broadcasts from its headquarters in Moscow and its studio in Washington, D.C., and also has bureaus in Miami, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Delhi and Tel Aviv.
