AP Television News is the international television division of The Associated Press (www.ap.org), the world’s oldest and largest newsgathering organisation. In May 1846, Moses Yale Beach, the second owner-publisher of the original New York Sun, offered to share news from the US war with Mexico with rival newspapers. The resulting agreements formed the basis for co-operative newsgathering by telegraph just as Samuel F B Morse’s revolutionary invention began a swift expansion throughout the country, linking New York to points north, west, and south.

Those agreements evolved into The Associated Press – the AP – that today has 4,000 employees and delivers news around the clock to more than 130 countries and 1 billion readers, listeners, and viewers. One hundred and forty-eight years later, in 1994, the AP launched its international television division – basing its headquarters in London, UK. AP Television News is now the world’s leading video news agency, delivering breaking global news, sport, entertainment, technology and human interest video content to broadcasters, online and mobile platforms. Video captured by AP Television News can be seen by over half of the worlds population on any given day.

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