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Encyclopedia > Television news

Television news refers to the practice of disseminating current events via the media of television. News Bulletins are programmes lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on world, national, regional or local news events. Television channels may provide news bulletins as part of a regular programme that is aired daily or more often at standard times. Less often, television shows may be interrupted or replaced by "news flashes" to provide news updates on current events of great importance or sudden events of great importance. Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic hurricane season • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak in Asia • Bali bombings investigation • California wildfires • UK Conservative Party leadership election • DeLay political financing scandal • Dengue outbreak in Singapore • FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 • Fiji Week, 2005 • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. ...


A newscast typically consists of the coverage of various news events and other information, either produced locally by a radio or television station, or by a broadcast network. It may also include such additional material as sports coverage, weather forecasts, traffic reports, commentary and other material that the broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience. Information is a word which seems to have many different meanings, but is as a rule it closely relates to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. ... A broadcast network is an organization, such as a corporation or other association, that provides live or recorded content, such as movies, newscasts, sports, and public affairs programs for broadcast over a television station. ... Composite satellite image showing the progress of a hurricane weather system approaching the East Coast of the United States Weather comprises all the various phenomena that occur in the atmosphere of a planet. ... There are several senses for Commentary: Informed criticism. ... Note: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. ... An audience is a group of people who participate in and experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ...


In some parts of the world there are 'rolling news' TV channels that broadcast news 24 hours a day.


Television news consists of several different elements, introduced by a news presenter or presenters. The presenters read 'links' and do interviews.


Most news stories come in the form of short 'packages'. These are pre-recorded reports usually lasting from one to five minutes. News reporters gather and edit together interview clips, pictures and their own 'pieces to camera' to tell a story. They script and record a 'voice-over' to explain the pictures and link the elements together.


Some stories are done as live reports. This can be a reporter on the scene of a story either being interviewed by a studio presenter (sometimes known as a 'two-way'), a reporter interviewing one or more other people, or simply live pictures and sound of an event. The sound and pictures are sent back to the TV station via fixed cable links or bounced off a satellite from a vehicle carrying a satellite dish (a 'sat truck').


TV news programmes are put together by producers, who decide what goes in and what gets left out, and how long and in what form each story is presented. They put together 'running orders' - a list of the stories in what they decide is the right order.


A separate news editor is often responsible for co-ordinating the gathering of material.


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Newscast is also a newspaper formerly published by Al-Qaida. Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ...


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Independent Television News - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1113 words)
ITN's most famous news programme, News at Ten was also controversially axed by ITV in 1999 to allow it to broadcast films without the interruption of a 10 o'clock news bulletin.
The new ITV News at 10.30pm launched on 2 February 2004 (the day that ITV in England and Wales came under the ownership of a single company), and is presented by Sir Trevor McDonald.
Similarly, ITN's 24-hour news channel (launched some distance behind the wake of Sky News and BBC News 24) was jointly bought by the main ITV companies Carlton and Granada, and subsequently renamed and re-branded as the ITV News Channel.
Talking With kids: 10 Tips About TV News (4136 words)
But the news media can lead people to believe that the stories reported are closer to home, or that they happen more often than they do in real life.
News stories of crime and violence are an excellent opportunity to initiate a conversation on the real life consequences of guns and violence.
If your son says he sees a particular race being arrested on the news all the time, explain to him that even though those particular people may have committed crimes, that doesn't mean their particular race should be associated with crime.
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