News 24 (Albanian TV channel)

{{Short description|Albanian TV channel}}

{{Infobox television channel

| name = News 24

| logo = News 24 (Albania).svg

| logo_size =

| launch_date = 2002

| country = Albania

| owner = Focus Media Group

sh.p.k.

| picture_format = 4:3 (576i, SDTV)
1080i (HDTV 16:9)

| website = {{URL|https://www.news24.al/}}

| sister_channels = Radio News 24, 97.0 FM (Tirana),Fax News

| terr_serv_2 = Digital

| terr_chan_2 = DVB-T

| cable avail =

}}

News 24 is the first Albanian 24-hour news television channel, founded in 2002 in Tirana, Albania, by Italian journalist Carlo Bollino and former shareholder of Gazeta Shqiptare newspaper, Radio Rash, and Balkanweb portal.{{cite web|title=SOCIAL MEDIA AND THEIR USE BY ALBANIAN MEDIA|year=2015|author=Albanian Media Institute Instituti Shqiptar i Media|url=http://www.institutemedia.org/Documents/PDF/perdorimi%20i%20mediave%20anglisht.pdf}} The channel's format resembles its Italian equivalent Rai News24. The news is updated every minute.

News 24 operates the popular news portal Balkanweb.[http://www.balkanweb.com/indexi.php Balkanweb]{{Cite web|url=http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/AL|title=Alexa - Top Sites in Albania - Alexa|access-date=2017-07-05|archive-date=2017-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630192807/http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/AL|url-status=dead}} The portal was established in February 2000 by the Italian publishing company Edisud{{cite web |url=http://www.edisud.it/ |title=Home |website=edisud.it}} (e.g. La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno) with funding from the Soros Foundation. It was later sold to Focus Group in 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kas.de/wf/en/71.13557/|title=News Portals - Balkanmedia Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.}} Balkanweb's videos come almost exclusively from 'News 24'.