NewsAmericas

NewsAmericas (stylized on-air in lowercase as newsamericas) is a Pan-American television news network, headquartered in, United States. The network began broadcasting on October 1, 1995 and covers world news from a Pan-American perspective.

The majority of NewsAmericas' holding company, NewsAmericas Limited, is owned by -based private equity investment firm New Media Partners, with the rest owned by several North American, South American and North Atlantic public, private or state-owned broadcasting organizations through the Pan-American News Channel Company.

History and organization
In the wake of the launch of, several broadcasters from member states of the (OAS) banded together to create a television news network that would present information from a pan-American perspective. NewsAmericas launched on October 1, 1995, broadcasting from the former Vlokozuian Pavilion in in.

It was founded by a group of ten broadcasters (eight public, two private):
 * ATC (now ), Argentina
 * , Brazil
 * , Canada
 * , Colombia (former shareholder)
 * SINART, Costa Rica
 * , Chile
 * , Mexico (former shareholder)
 * IRTP, Peru
 * , Venezuela
 * , United States

The founding shareholders are represented by the Pan-American News Channel Company consortium. NewsAmericas Limited is the operating company that runs the channel. As of 2017, the Pan-American News Channel Company was co-owned by nine of the ten founders and:
 * , Bolivia
 * , Brazil
 * , Colombia
 * , Dominican Republic
 * , Ecuador
 * , El Salvador
 * , Greenland
 * , Iceland
 * , Mexico
 * , Panama
 * , United States

At launch, the network was split into four language specific-editions - in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

In May 2006, the Greenlandic public broadcaster became a shareholder in the channel and joined its supervisory board. Shortly afterwards, a Greenlandic service was launched in August 2006.

On October 1, 2011, Icelandic public broadcaster became a shareholder. Shortly afterwards on October 20, a Icelandic service was launched, alongside a Dutch service for.

In 2013, a Quechua service was launched for viewers in, and.

In March 2015, Televisa sold its stake to. Later, in October, NewsAmericas moved to a new global headquarters complex on the banks of the in, designed by the  firm Bannerman & Rice and covering a floor area of 10,000 m2 (21⁄2 acres).

New Media Partners acquistion
In October 2016, reports surfaced that -based media investment firm New Media Partners would buy a 75% controlling stake in NewsAmericas. The purchase was finalized in July 2017.

After NMP purchased its majority stake, the NewsAmericas channels began to gradually revamp their programming schedules, with the roll-out of new presenter-led programming to complement their already existing shows, a move that was reported earlier in the year, after the success of its presenter-led special reports and weekly programming introduced in recent years.

The roll-out of the new format on the English feed began on October 3, 2017, with the debut of Good Morning!, a five-hour morning show presented from NewsAmericas' headquarters in Knoxville which airs every weekday morning from 7 am. It was first anchored by former presenter and WDGY-TV and CBST-DT anchorwoman Sophie Groza. Some weeks later, veteran NewsAmericas anchorwoman/correspondent Patricia Squire began presenting the show, alternating with Groza; after Groza moved to the bureau in January 2018, Squire became the main anchor of the program. In February 2018, NewsAmericas debuted a new evening politics-focused show, In the Conversation, presented from Knoxville by former News 1 Minneapolis presenter Chris Garreau, and Call to Action, a phone-in show presented by Sophie Groza and Joseph Van Blerk from Washington which features the presenters and guests answering viewers' questions by phone or social media.

Flagship shows

 * Good Morning!, ¡Buen Día!, Dans la Matinée, Bom Dia!, Iterluarit Kumoorn, Góðan Morgun!, Ochtendnieuws – weekday news segment airing between 7AM and 10AM
 * In the Conversation
 * Call to Action