i24 Israel News TV Live Stream

The English channel is broadcast from New York between 6 and 10 p.m. Eastern Time and at other times broadcasts from Israel. The channel went live on 17 July 2013. Melloul stated that it would battle prejudice and ignorance about Israel with “facts and diversity.” Arab Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish was the chief anchor of the English-language branch of the channel from July 2013 until she resigned in January 2016. On 8 December 2016 all programming on the English channel officially ended in preparation for launching in America. The channel broadcast 10 minutes of news on the Hour from 8 am to 11 pm (local time) and replaced “Morning Edition”, “The Daily Beat” and “The Lineup” with a 26-minute news bulletin, repeated at half past. The launch of i24NEWS in the United States was announced on 27 January 2017. Live programming in the US is broadcast from Times Square in New York with an additional bureau in Washington, DC. Approximately 50 journalists were hired to staff the two locations. The channel uses resources from its Jaffa headquarters. The channel is also streamed live on its website in all three languages. The channel contracted an agreement enabling it to be broadcast in Germany on Kabel Deutschland. i24news was primarily broadcast in the United States via the Jewish Life Television network, but following the procurement of Cablevision by Drahl-owned Altice USA (formerly Cablevision with a public brand of Optimum), i24NEWS is now broadcast on the Optimum channel 102, and its distribution is limited to Drahl-owned Optimum and Suddenlink systems.