A WNYW-TV full screen segment intro from 2005.

Tabloid television is similar to tabloid newspapers. Tabloid television newscasts usually incorporate flashy graphics and sensationalistic stories, some with little or no local relevance. Often, there is a heavy emphasis on crime, stories with good video, and celebrity news. Image File history File links A WNYW-TV full screen segment intro from 2005. ... Image File history File links A WNYW-TV full screen segment intro from 2005. ... WNYW, FOX5 is the flagship TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ...

Examples of tabloid television

The basic tabloid television format developed on nationally syndicated programmes such as Hard Copy, Inside Edition, and A Current Affair which all incorporate flashy graphics with sensationalistic stories. Tabloid talk shows were extremely popular during the end of the 20th century. In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... Hard Copy was a tabloid news infotainment magazine show similar to Inside Edition and A Current Affair. ... WJLA, Washington, DC Inside Edition promo featuring Bill OReilly, 1993. ... A Current Affair homepage A Current Affair is a television magazine that ran from 1986 to 1996 before reappearing in 2005. ... Tabloid talk shows are a genre of American television talk-shows that were extremely popular during the late 20th century, ran mostly during the day, and were distributed mostly through syndication. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Some stations, like NBC owned and operated WCAU-TV, air primarily weather and crime stories. Other stations, such as the CBS network flagship station WCBS-TV put their own special programming ahead of hard news. Examples of this are with exclusive "Shame on You" and "Eat At Your Own Risk" segments beating out major stories to top the newscast. One egregious example of their self promotion trend occurred on May 24, 2005. This was the day the United States House of Representatives took a major vote regarding the funding of stem cell research, WCBS led their 11 p.m. newscast with a story and exclusive video of actor Burt Reynolds slapping a CBS producer. Rivals WNBC and WABC led with the stem cell funding vote. NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... WCAU (NBC10) is a NBC owned and operated station serving the Delaware Valley area, owned by NBC-Universal, with its transmitter in Roxborough. ... CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... WCBS-TV, channel two, is the flagship television station of the CBS television network, located in New York City. ... Hard news and soft news are terms for describing a relative difference between poles in a spectrum within the broader news trade —with hard journalism at the professional end and soft infotainment at the other. ... May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is, along with the United States Senate, one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States. ... Mouse embryonic stem cells. ... Burt Reynolds in 2005 Burt Reynolds (born Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. ... WNBC-TV, NBC4 is the flagship TV station of the NBC television network, with studios located in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. ... WABC-TV, channel seven, is the flagship station of the Walt Disney Company-owned ABC television network, located in New York City. ...

WSVN in Miami, Florida was one of the first stations to popularize the tabloid television in the local news arena. Today, the format is prevalent with FOX affiliates, such as WNYW-TV and WTTG-TV. FOX's parent company News Corporation owns The New York Post, a notorious daily tabloid newspaper. WSVN is the Fox affiliate in Miami, Florida that broadcasts on VHF Channel 7. ... The Magic City, The American Riviera, The Sixth Borough, M.I.A Location of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... WNYW, FOX5 is the flagship TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... WTTG, FOX5 DC is an owned and operated TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... The first edition of The New York Post of July 6, 2004 incorrectly declared that U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry would choose U.S. Representative Dick Gephardt to be his vice-presidential running mate that day (in reality, Kerry chose John Edwards). ...

See also

• Infotainment

Infotainment or soft news, refers to a general type of news media broadcast program which either provides a combination of current events news and entertainment programming, or an entertainment program structured in a news format. ...

References

• Potter, Deborah (October/November 2003). A Story for All Seasons. American Journalism Review. Found at NewsLab.org (July 16, 2005).

External

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