Fiktiv Luxembourg - ENEX

The European News Exchange (short: ENEX) is an association of the world’s leading commercial TV broadcasters. Coordinated by the ENEX Centre in Luxembourg, ENEX members share their news content and news production resources in order to gain competitive advantages in newsgathering. ENEX began as a technical service platform and has over recent years transformed itself into becoming a news provider that gathers daily news video stories from its members in a news pool. All ENEX content is available, exclusively to its members, for free. To ensure exclusivity, usually only one channel per territory is allowed to join.

On 14 December 1993, managers from RTL Television, RTL Belgium, RTL Nederland, M6 in France, and CLT (Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion or CLT, later to become RTL Group) met in Luxembourg to found the European News Exchange. The initial goal was to combine the resources of the different TV channels and to reduce costs by sharing news footage, technical facilities and satellite space. ENEX started operating in 1994.

In 1996, ENEX merged with the "News Consortium" consisting of CBS, Sky News, VTM Belgium and TBS Japan. The members of the News Consortium joined ENEX, then operating one digital and one analogue satellite channel. Ten years after its inception, 30 ENEX members were making tens of thousands of bookings on 10 satellite channels and exchanging more than 5,000 news stories per year.

In 2003, ENEX digitised the picture exchange; all news stories were now recorded on a server. The following year the number of items nearly doubled when footage from CBS Newspath was added. In 2005, ENEX introduced News Link, a system for the transmission and exchange of content via the internet on a file-sharing basis. ENEX maintains 8 digital satellite channels on Eutelsat 16A. All ENEX members contribute and receive content from all over the world via News Link HD. In 2017 ENEX members delivered more than 40,000 items of video content.

Since 2014 ENEX has been rapidly expanding into new territories. It maintains very close cooperation with the Alianza Informativa Latinoamericana (AIL), a similar collaborative news organization in Latin America. ENEX, in 2018, had 14 Latin American partners. In 2015 ENEX began to expand into the Middle East where the partnership has four members.

The association currently has 83 members and is present in 76 countries. The geographical reach and news expertise of its members contribute to the value of ENEX content exchange. ENEX strength is the collective strength of some of the world’s most important commercial and news channels. They share live signals over the ENEX satellite and IP distribution network whenever there is breaking news, often being the first on the spot. ENEX operates an MCR with highly developed links with LiveU and Mobile Viewpoint technologies and also a grid of connections supported by R&S Relaycaster of Rohde & Schwarz.

Since 2012, ENEX has expanded its membership base by 45 per cent. At present, the organization is in discussions with channels in Asia, Africa, additional partners in South America, as well as further partners in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Current members:
Adria Region - N1
Argentina - Telefe
Armenia - A1+
Aruba - Telearuba
Australia - Sky News Australia
Austria - ServusTV
Azerbaijan - ANS
Belarus - STV
Belgium - RTL-TVI
Belgium - VTM
Bolivia - Unitel
Brazil - Rede Bandeirantes
Bulgaria - bTV
Chile - Mega
China - Shanghai Media Group
Colombia - Caracol
Costa Rica - Teletica
Croatia - RTL Televizija
Curaçao - Telecuraçao
Cyprus - Alpha TV Cyprus
Cyprus - ANT1 Cyprus
Czech Republic - Nova
Denmark - TV2
Dominican Republic - Noticias SIN
Ecuador - Ecuavisa
Egypt - Al Ghad Al Arabi
El Salvador - Canal 6
Estonia - TV1
Finland - MTV3
France - BFM TV
France - M6
Georgia - Imedi
Germany - RTL
Greece - ANT1
Greece - Alpha TV
Guatemala - TV Azteca Guate
Honduras - TV Azteca Honduras
Hong Kong - ATV
Hungary - RTL Klub
Iceland - Stöd 2
Indonesia - ANTV
Iraq - Rudaw
Ireland - TV3
Israel - Keshet 2
Italy - Sky TG24
Japan - TBS
Kazakhstan - TAN
Kyrgyzstan - KOORT
Latvia - LNT
Lithuania - BTV
Luxembourg - RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
Mexico - TV Azteca
Moldova - Pro TV Chișinău
Montenegro - Prva CG
Morocco - M24 TV
Netherlands - RTL 4
Nigeria - TVC News
Norway - TV2
Panama - RPC
Paraguay - Telefuturo
Peru - Latina
Poland - Antena 1
Portugal - SIC
Puerto Rico - WAPA-TV
Romania - PRO TV
Russia - NTV
Serbia - Prva srpska televizija
Singapore - SPH Mediaworks
Slovakia - Markiza
Slovenia - Pop TV
Spain - Telecinco
Sweden - TV4
Switzerland - TV24
Taiwan - TVBS
Turkey - NTV
United Arab Emirates - Al Arabiya
United Arab Emirates - Sky News Arabia
Ukraine - 1+1
United Kingdom - Five
United Kingdom - Sky News
United States - CBS
Uruguay - Canal 4
Venezuela - RCTV