Thalia Assuras is a Canadian television journalist and media consultant .
90-478: CBS News Mornings is an American early-morning news broadcast presented weekdays on the CBS television network. The program features late-breaking news stories, national weather forecasts and sports highlights. Since October 7, 2024, the program has been anchored by Michael George. The program is broadcast live at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time , preceding local news beginning at 4:30 a.m. on many CBS stations. It
180-646: A cable network that CBS launched in March 1997. She also worked as a national correspondent and later became anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1998. She then become co-anchor of The Saturday Early Show in 1999 and the CBS Evening News Saturday , also in 1999, alternating with Russ Mitchell . In a June 22, 1998 article in Maclean's , Assuras commented on her reason for moving to
270-520: A technical director , floor director audio technician , and a television crew of operators running character graphics (CG), teleprompters , and professional video cameras . Most news shows are broadcast live. Radio news is transmitted through the medium of radio , meaning it is audio-only. It was a dominant form of information dissemination to households from the 1910s–1940s before home televisions became cheap and common. Radio news has persisted, often with short updates at certain intervals on
360-676: A 10-minute newscast at 10:55 pm, following The National , these were expanded to a half-hour and moved to 11:00 p.m. during the fall of 2012). Some stations carry morning newscasts (usually starting at 5:30 or 6:00 am, and ending at 9:00 am). Unlike in the United States, primetime newscasts in the 10:00 p.m. timeslot are relatively uncommon (three Global owned-and-operated stations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan – CKND-DT , CFSK-DT , and CFRE-DT – and Victoria, British Columbia independent station CHEK-DT are
450-658: A broadcast on HBO for a few years despite starting as a YouTube channel, for example, eventually transferring the show to their own network called Viceland and later Vice On TV. Outside the realm of traditional news organizations with paid journalists are citizen journalists , independents who report on their own and use sites such as YouTube to display their content. Independents also heavily cover commentary on news: while most independents cannot originally report on anything other than local issues due to budgetary concerns, opinions are cheaper. As such, Internet journalism has many video broadcasts & podcasts of opinion closer to
540-485: A channel number or call letters , the newscast title is often enough for the appropriate station to receive Nielsen ratings credit. The Big Three broadcast television networks produce morning and evening national newscasts. These newscasts are focused on world news, national news, and sometimes local news items that have some national significance. ( Good Morning America First Look , Good Morning America , and ABC World News are broadcast by ABC , CBS broadcasts
630-446: A competitor, tended not to use live broadcast as a style, except when streaming existing television programs. Another change in news broadcasts in the 2000s, at least in the United States, was a rediscovered interest in health news and consumer news – areas of special interest to women that had traditionally been written off as too minor for the evening newscasts, but proved to be steady sources of viewer curiosity and ratings. Unlike in
720-440: A daily flagship evening newscast Noticias Telemundo , along with weekday morning program Hoy Día (which replaced Un Nuevo Día in 2021) and weekday afternoon newsmagazine Al Rojo Vivo ; Estrella TV , which produces the weekday-only flagship news program Noticiero Estrella TV and the primetime newscast Cierre de Edición ; and Azteca América , which produces morning, early and late evening newscasts on weekdays under
810-498: A day, often filling late afternoon, primetime, and late night hours with news-based talk programs, documentaries, and other specialty programming. More often, AM radio stations will air a 6½-minute newscast at the top of the hour, which can be either a local report, a national report from a radio network such as CBS Radio , CNN Radio , NPR , Fox News Radio , or ABC News Radio , or a mix of both local and national content, including weather and traffic reports. Some stations also air
900-491: A financial news channel, while Sun News Network briefly operated from 2011 to 2015 as a conservative -leaning competitor to the other national news channels. There are also a handful of regional news channels, such as CP24 (which covers the Greater Toronto Area ), and Global News: BC 1 , which covers Vancouver. CityNews Channel formerly operated as a competitor to CP24, although that channel shut down after
990-555: A larger network affiliate or whose operations are jointly managed through a shared service or local marketing agreement . In cases where a station with an existing news department enters into a news share agreement, it will result either the two departments merging or the outright conversion of newscast production from in-house to outsourced production. Minor network affiliates involved in news share agreements will often carry far fewer hours of local newscasts than would be conceivable with an in-house news department to avoid competition with
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#17327733601011080-670: A late night newscast, although the network currently airs rebroadcasts of the fourth hour of Today , and sister network CNBC 's Mad Money on weeknights). Spanish-language news programs are provided by Univision , which produces early and late evening editions of its flagship evening news program Noticiero Univision seven nights a week (and was the only nightly newscast on the major Spanish networks until Telemundo resumed its weekend newscasts in October 2014), along with weekday afternoon newsmagazine Primer Impacto and weekday morning program Despierta America ; Telemundo , which has
1170-515: A local cable operator and are distributed solely through cable television and IPTV system operators. Some broadcast television stations also operate cable channels (some of which are repeated through digital multicasting ) that air the station's local newscasts in the form of live simulcasts from the television station, with rebroadcasts of the newscasts airing in time periods between the live broadcasts. A term which has entered common parlance to differentiate cable news from traditional news broadcasts
1260-551: A local news operation, such as is the case with Fox News Channel and the Fox network's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates (most of which use the Fox (channel #) News brand for their newscasts), due to the network's controversially perceived conservative-leaning political content that differs from the Fox broadcast stations' independent and generally nonpartisan reporting. Most U.S. cable news networks do not air news programming 24 hours
1350-666: A more fragmented market and government reluctance to interfere as closely. Increased choice in channels led to viewers declining to watch overly serious newscasts; successful network news shows tended to be ones that either focused on entertainment or at least mixed it in, such as morning talk shows or news magazines such as Today and 60 Minutes . Audiences that prefer more serious news have migrated to news-focused stations such as CNN , Fox News , and MSNBC for American examples. These changes have been criticized as having effects on larger society. An example from television in Italy
1440-548: A relevant location and edited in an editing suite in a newsroom or a remote contribution edit suite in a location some distance from the newsroom. They may also be edited in mobile editing vans, or satellite vans or trucks (such as electronic news gathering vehicles), and transmitted back to the newsroom. Live coverage will be broadcast from a relevant location and sent back to the newsroom via fixed cable links, microwave radio, production truck , satellite truck , or via online streaming. Roles associated with television news include
1530-422: A result of a local press pool arrangement. Many local and national news organizations such as Dallas station WFAA-TV and CBS News provided continuous coverage of the events and aftermath for five days. The November 24, 1963, assassination of Kennedy's accused killer Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby was fed to NBC by a remote unit on loan to its Dallas affiliate WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV ) from competitor KTVT , and
1620-430: A substantially lower weekly newscast output compared to its English-language counterparts (usually limited to half-hour broadcasts in the evening, and often airing only on weeknights). Unlike international broadcast stations which tend to brand under uniform newscast titles based solely on network affiliation, U.S. television stations tend to use varying umbrella titles for their newscasts; some title their newscasts using
1710-551: A two-anchor format until Thalia Assuras was appointed as anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1998, at which point the program switched to a single-anchor format, which it has had ever since. In March 2009, when Michelle Gielan was named anchor of Up to the Minute , the CBS Morning News became integrated with the overnight news program, using the same anchors on both programs. In November 2010, CBS Morning News became
1800-411: A two-minute report at the bottom of the hour. FM stations, unless they feature a talk radio format, usually only air an abbreviated weather forecast. Some also air minute-long news capsules featuring a quick review of events, and usually only in drive time periods or in critical emergencies, since FM stations usually focus more on playing music. Traffic reports also air on FM stations, depending on
1890-588: A year and a half of operation in May 2013 The U.S. CNN, Fox News, HLN, and MSNBC, as well as a number of other international news channels (such as, most commonly, Al Jazeera English and BBC World News ) are authorized for distribution by Canadian television providers by the CRTC . Local TV stations in the United States normally broadcast local news three to four times a day on average: commonly airing at 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, or 6:00 a.m.; noon; 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. in
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#17327733601011980-414: Is network news , in reference to the traditional television networks on which such broadcasts air. A classic example is the cable news channel MSNBC, which overlaps with (and, in the case of very significant breaking news events, pre-empts) its network counterpart NBC News ; in some cases, viewers may have trouble differentiating between the cable channel and either a counterpart network news organization or
2070-401: Is a study of Mediaset 's rollout in Italy in the 1980s found that Mediaset's programming was slanted against news and educational content than its competitor RAI ( Radiotelevisione italiana ). A study in 2019 found that individuals in regions with an earlier rollout of Mediaset were more susceptible to populist appeals and less interested in "sophisticated" political arguments. The study said
2160-637: Is one famous example, although similar styles took place on the BBC in the United Kingdom, on shows in the Eastern Bloc, and so on, with high viewership concentrated in just a few prestige newscasts. This was something of an artifact of both technology and media culture: few channels were available, and those that did tended to take news casting seriously, even if lighter news could potentially have gotten more viewers. Government regulation also affected
2250-654: Is relatively uncommon on Canadian television; for many years, the closest program having similarities to the format was CTV's news and interview series Question Period ; Global would eventually debut the political affairs show The West Block in November 2011. Canada is host to several 24-hour news channels on specialty television, including CBC News Network and CTV News Channel in English, and Ici RDI and Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN) in French. BNN Bloomberg operates as
2340-498: Is transmitted in a continuous half-hour broadcast delay loop until 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, when CBS Mornings begin in the Pacific Time Zone . In the few markets where the station does not produce a morning newscast, it may air in a two- to three-hour loop immediately before the start of CBS Mornings . The show is updated for any breaking news occurring before 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, while stations throughout
2430-714: The CBS Early Morning News . It was a half-hour extension of the two-hour CBS Morning News which aired directly opposite Today . Bill Kurtis and Diane Sawyer originally anchored both the Early Morning News and the Morning News of that era. Sawyer departed both programs in mid-1984, to be named a correspondent for 60 Minutes later that year. In her absence, Kurtis was joined by a rotating series of co-hosts, principally Maria Shriver , Meredith Vieira and Jane Wallace . Kurtis anchored
2520-559: The CBS News Mornings , CBS Mornings , and the CBS Evening News , and NBC produces Early Today , Today , and NBC Nightly News ) as well as weekly newsmagazine series (NBC's Dateline ; ABC's 20/20 and Nightline ; and CBS's CBS News Sunday Morning , 48 Hours , and 60 Minutes ). Network morning newscasts usually air at 7:00 a.m. (English-language network morning shows air live in
2610-615: The Big Three ; CNN, Fox News , and MSNBC . Conversely, several cable news channels exist that carry news reports specifically geared toward a particular metropolitan area, region, or state such as New York City's NY1 (which focuses on the entire New York metropolitan area ) and News 12 Networks (which serves portions of the area outside Manhattan ), Orlando 's News 13 (which is also carried in areas surrounding Greater Orlando ), Tampa, Florida 's Bay News 9 , and Washington, D.C.'s NewsChannel 8 . These channels are usually owned by
2700-745: The CBS Evening News ). Concurrently, Up to the Minute was replaced the same day by the CBS Overnight News. On March 11, 2020, the CBS Broadcast Center was temporarily closed after a number of CBS News staffers tested positive for COVID-19 . While CBS News did attempt to reopen the Broadcast Center with minimal crews following a thorough decontamination and cleaning, a second shutdown on March 18, along with directives by CBS News President Susan Zirinsky in
2790-480: The CBS Morning News was updated to match the branding of CBS Mornings , which replaced CBS This Morning around the same time. On February 5, 2024, the program was retitled CBS News Mornings , in conjunction with a graphics update on CBS Mornings . The title itself was originally used by the CBS News streaming channel for its weekday 7:00 a.m. ET newswheel, which itself rebranded from CBSN AM in 2021;
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2880-591: The Early Morning News solo until March 1985, while co-anchoring the Morning News with Phyllis George until July of that year. Faith Daniels took over and would remain on the anchor desk, most of the time sharing the role with Forrest Sawyer (July to December 1985 and January to September 1987) and later Douglas Edwards and Charles Osgood , until Daniels left CBS to become anchor of competing early-morning newscast NBC News at Sunrise in 1990. The program would drop "Early" from its title in January 1987, assuming
2970-779: The Eastern Time Zone and tape delayed for the remaining time zones, while the Spanish-language morning shows air live in the Eastern, Central, and Mountain time zones and are tape delayed in the Pacific Time Zone); network evening newscasts usually are broadcast live twice, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time /5:30 p.m. Central time for the East Coast before another "Western Edition" live broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Pacific time /7:30 p.m. Mountain time . Today
3060-561: The Omni Television station group). Canadian television stations normally broadcast newscasts between two and four times a day: usually at noon, 5:00, 5:30, and 6:00, and 11:00 p.m. (there are some variations to this: stations affiliated with CTV usually air their late evening newscasts at 11:30 pm, due to the scheduling of the network's national evening news program CTV National News at 11:00 p.m. in all time zones; most CBC Television -owned stations formerly carried
3150-495: The University of Western Ontario , pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree. She graduated in 1980, then entered the graduate program in journalism and earned her master's degree in 1981. Twenty-one years later she commented on the impact the journalism program had had on her: Assuras has worked for CITY-TV and Global Television , including a stint as reporter and weekend anchor for City Pulse from 1985 to 1988. She
3240-588: The " Telecopter ", a helicopter equipped for newsgathering use that was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of its time. The modern-day coverage of major breaking news events came to fruition following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963; the news of Kennedy's death was first announced by Eddie Barker , the news director at KRLD-TV (now KDFW ) in Dallas , who passed along word from an official at Parkland Hospital ; Barker's scoop appeared live simultaneously on CBS and ABC as
3330-620: The 20 largest U.S. media markets). Duopolies and outsourcing agreements have also affected Fox stations in a similar manner; although Fox is considered to be a major network on the same level as NBC, ABC, and CBS and has urged its affiliates since the early 1990s to broadcast local news, about half of its stations broadcast local news programming through news share agreements with many of the remainder operating their own news departments. Several stations affiliated with Spanish-language networks (such as Univision , Telemundo , and UniMás ) or also broadcast their own newscasts, these stations often produce
3420-589: The 7:00 hour then became a half-hour show titled CBS Morning News . News broadcast News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism . The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom , or by a broadcast network . A news broadcast may include material such as sports coverage, weather forecasts , traffic reports , political commentary , expert opinions, editorial content, and other material that
3510-477: The Internet tends to be a la carte, however – rather than a recap show of the issues of the day like a TV or radio show, Internet news sites will usually allow the browser to find the one story they are interested in and watch a video strictly on that, even if said video might have been a segment of a larger show. Internet native news shows do exist such as Vice News , but they tend to seep elsewhere: Vice News ran
3600-575: The Press , ABC's This Week , CBS' Face the Nation , Fox's sole news program Fox News Sunday , Univision's Al Punto , and Telemundo's Enfoque ); of these programs, Meet the Press holds the distinction of being the longest-running American television program as it has aired since November 6, 1947. The U.S. is one of the few countries in which broadcast networks provide overnight or early morning national news programs, in addition to those airing in
3690-553: The United States, most Canadian television stations have license requirements (enforced by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ) to offer locally produced newscasts (or any local programming, for that matter) in some form. Educational television stations are exempt from these requirements as are multicultural television stations, however some stations licensed as multicultural outlets do produce local newscasts in varied languages (such as
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3780-537: The United States, saying "I wanted to live in a different country. And I wanted to work where you have all the tools you need on a story." In July 2009, Assuras left CBS after her contract with it expired. She later anchored energyNOW! , a half-hour weekly TV news-magazine and opinion program produced by the American Clean Skies Foundation ; it aired first on WJLA-TV and later on Bloomberg Television . After energyNOW! , she established
3870-1102: The broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience. An individual news program is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors . A frequent inclusion is live or recorded interviews by field reporters . Television news programs inform and discuss current events via the medium of television. A "news bulletin" or a " newscast " are television programs lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on events. Programs can vary their focus; some newscasts discuss largely international or national matters, while others will focus on regional and local news events. Example providers of generalist broadcast news shows focusing on national and international matters include BBC News , NBC News , CNN , Fox News Channel , CNA , and Al Jazeera . In addition to general news outlets, there are many specialized news outlets. ESPNews , Fox Sports , and Eurosport News cover sports journalism topics; CNBC , Bloomberg Television , and Fox Business Network are examples that cover business news . Local programming covers
3960-602: The commentary-focused The O'Reilly Factor ). However, their gains did not offset the continuing steep decline in viewership of mainline network news. This era saw diversification and fragmentation proceed even further as new niche networks gained prominence such as the business-focused CNBC , Bloomberg Television , and Fox Business . Instead, people used the Internet for news rather than television broadcasts, both in mainline sites such as ones runs by newspapers as well as independent blogs and message boards with other Internet-users sharing opinions and news Internet news, while
4050-475: The cost of starting a news department from scratch or because of a lack of studio space. These commonly involve Fox, CW, and MyNetworkTV affiliates (and previously affiliate stations of the now-defunct predecessors of the latter two networks, The WB and UPN ) and in some cases, independent stations; however such agreements exist in certain markets between two co-owned/co-managed Big Three affiliates. News share agreements are most common with stations co-owned with
4140-546: The early 2000s). CBC Television, Global, and CTV each produce national evening newscasts ( The National , Global National and CTV National News , respectively), which unlike the American network newscasts do not compete with one another in a common timeslot; while Global National airs at the same early evening time slot as the American evening network newscasts, The National ' s 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time slot competes against primetime entertainment programming on
4230-408: The early evening; and 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. Some stations carry morning newscasts at 4:00, 7:00, 8:00, or 9:00 a.m., midday newscasts at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m., late afternoon newscasts at 4:00 or 4:30 p.m., or early evening newscasts at 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. Many Fox affiliates, affiliates of minor networks (such as The CW and MyNetworkTV ), and independent stations air newscasts in
4320-470: The effect included populist parties in general that offered simple slogans and easy cure-alls, including non-Berlusconi populist parties such as the Five Star Movement . From 2000 to 2010, overall viewership of television broadcast news continued to decline. Some news-adjacent cable programs gained fame and success in this era (such as the comedy-focused The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and
4410-1169: The evening during "prime time", but there are also morning newscasts of two to three hours in length. Rolling news channels broadcast news content 24 hours a day. The advent of the internet has allowed the regular 24-hour-a-day presentation of many video and audio news reports, which are updated when additional information becomes available; many television broadcasters provide content originally provided on-air as well as exclusive or supplementary news content on their websites. Local news may be presented by standalone local television stations, stations affiliated with national networks or by local studios which "opt-out" of national network programming at specified points. Different news programming may be aimed at different audiences, depending on age, socio-economic group, or those from particular sections of society. "Magazine-style" television shows (or newsmagazines ) may mix news coverage with topical lifestyle issues, debates, or entertainment content. Public affairs programs provide analysis of and interviews about political, social, and economic issues. News programs feature one or two (sometimes, three) anchors (or presenters,
4500-404: The few remaining users of the concept), most of which eventually disposed of the hourly update format by the early 2000s. Since the early 1990s, independent stations and stations affiliated with a non- Big Three network have entered into "news share agreements", in which news production is outsourced to a major network station (usually an affiliate of ABC, NBC, or CBS), often to avoid shouldering
4590-558: The final hour of primetime (i.e., 10:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones or 9:00 p.m. in the Mountain and Central time zones in the U.S.). Stations that produce local newscasts typically broadcast as little as one to as much over twelve hours of local news on weekdays and as little as one hour to as much as seven hours on weekends; news programming on weekends are typically limited to morning and evening newscasts as
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#17327733601014680-408: The first hour of NBC 's Today . Walter Cronkite and sportscaster Jim McKay both anchored the original CBS Morning News at one time. Joseph Benti became the anchor in 1969. Other anchors of the broadcast in this format included John Hart , Hughes Rudd , Sally Quinn , Richard Threlkeld , Lesley Stahl and Bruce Morton . The program first aired in its current format on October 4, 1982 as
4770-409: The first hour to accommodate their local morning newscasts. Osgood would remain anchor of the CBS Morning News until June 1992, paired with Victoria Corderi from 1990 to 1991, Giselle Fernández through February 1992, and then with Meredith Vieira for the remainder of Osgood's run as co-anchor. After Osgood left the program in 1992, the anchor turnover continued. The program continued to maintain
4860-516: The following week, it became impossible to consistently produce the program under their normal standards, and as a result production of the CBS Morning News was temporarily suspended beginning on March 24, 2020, with a repeat of the CBS Evening News or local newscasts or programming taking its place. On August 31, 2020, nearly six months after the pandemic began, production of the CBS Morning News resumed with its primary anchor, Anne-Marie Green , anchoring from her home studio. On September 8, 2021,
4950-442: The hour, although the medium of radio has generally shifted toward people doing something else such as driving, working or waking up, compared to television. Radio news broadcasts can range from as little as one minute to as much as the station's entire schedule, such as the case of all-news radio , or talk radio . Stations that use a "wheel" format tend to keep to a set schedule of certain programming at certain specific minutes on
5040-728: The hour, and one of these segments is frequently a news bulletin. These short bulletins will provide overviews of any breaking news of interest, and may include local concerns such as weather forecasts or traffic reports. The vast majority of professionally produced video or audio news on the Internet tends to be attached to existing news organizations. Radio stations will upload their news reports as streamable podcasts and television networks will sometimes make their broadcasts available over Internet video. Print newspapers will sometimes feature video on their websites for breaking news events and for long-form video journalism. The usual focus on
5130-454: The increased presence of duopolies and outsourcing agreements since the early 2000s, the number of minor network affiliates and independent stations that produce their own newscasts has markedly decreased compared to when duopolies were barred under Federal Communications Commission rules prior to 2000 (as of 2013, there are at least 15 minor network affiliates or independent stations that produce their own local newscasts, most are located within
5220-725: The larger amount of network programming that those networks carry). In 1990, WEWS-TV in Cleveland conceived a concept known as the "24-Hour News Source" (which has its origins in a news format used by short-lived Boston independent station WXPO-TV when it signed on in 1969), in which supplementary 30-second long news updates were produced at or near the top of each hour outside regular long-form newscasts during local commercial break inserts shown within network and syndicated programming. The format spread to other U.S. television stations (most notably, WISH-TV in Indianapolis , one of
5310-495: The late 1970s, the first local morning news programs debuted. Additional changes in local news content came during the 1980s and 1990s; in January 1989, WSVN in Miami became the first to adopt a news-intensive programming format; rather than fill its schedule with syndicated content as other Fox stations did at the time it joined that network, Ed Ansin (owner of WSVN parent Sunbeam Television ) chose instead to heavily invest in
5400-588: The longest-running network newsmagazine in Canada). CTV's Your Morning is the sole national morning news program on broadcast television in Canada, and replaced Canada AM , which aired since 1975. Most CTV owned-and-operated stations west of the Ontario-Manitoba border dropped the program during the summer and fall of 2011 in favor of locally produced morning newscasts. The Sunday morning talk show
5490-415: The many examples of smaller stations with a regional focus. Newscasts, also known as bulletins or news program(me)s, differ in content, tone, and presentation style depending on the format of the channel/station on which they appear, and their timeslot. In most parts of the world, national television networks will have bulletins featuring national and international news. The top-rated shows will often air in
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#17327733601015580-418: The market. In some countries, radio news content may be syndicated by a website or company to many stations in a particular region or even the entire country. A notable example is Israel, where there are groups of radio stations that broadcast the same hourly news capsule by an Israeli news website and television station. There are currently two groups of local Israeli stations: one broadcasts news from YNET ,
5670-416: The morning and early evening. CBS and ABC are currently the only networks that produce overnight news programs on weeknights in the form of Up to the Minute and World News Now , respectively; NBC previously produced overnight newscasts at different times, both of which have since been cancelled: NBC News Overnight from 1982 to 1983, and NBC Nightside from 1991 to 1998 (NBC currently does not offer
5760-476: The name previously used by the network's flagship morning broadcast , which had been cancelled and replaced by the critically panned news/entertainment/comedy show The Morning Program (which itself was cancelled after 10½ months in favor of the more traditional CBS This Morning ); the renamed CBS Morning News also briefly expanded into a 90-minute broadcast (6:00 to 7:30 a.m. local), although affiliates in several larger markets chose to preempt all or part of
5850-576: The network will join CBS Mornings in all time zones past that time at their local discretion or network orders for live coverage. The CBS Morning News title was originally used as the name of a conventional morning news program that served as a predecessor to the network's current CBS Mornings . For most of the 1960s and 1970s, the program aired as a 60-minute hard news broadcast at 7:00 a.m., preceding Captain Kangaroo and airing opposite
5940-460: The newly independent unit was renamed ABC (American Broadcasting Company). A general shift over time happened in the style of the evening newscasts in most countries. In the 1950s, television was novel enough that it was considered entertainment. In the 1960s and 70s, television newscasts tended to be unusually "serious" by later standards, featuring more "hard news" and less light entertainment mixed in. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
6030-563: The news landscape: in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission forced networks to abide by strict public-interest requirements that required broadcasting news, while television in the Soviet Union was strictly regulated by the government which looked on frivolous topics with disfavor. In the 1980s and 90s, this tended to fall away as a consequence of cable and satellite technology allowing
6120-482: The newspapers. The outbreak of World War II led to a great increase in the quantity of news programming, consuming as much as 20% of the schedules of the major networks. Chief among these reporters was Edward Roscoe Murrow , whose reports from London kept the American public focused on a war far from home. Also, the eventual "big three" were complete in 1945; the FCC forced a sale of NBC Blue due to anti-trust concerns, and
6210-550: The only television stations in the country carrying a primetime newscast); conversely, pre-5:00 a.m. local newscasts do not exist in Canada. Like with U.S. television, many stations use varied titles for their newscasts; this is particularly true with owned-and-operated stations of Global and City (Global's stations use titles based on daypart such as News Hour for the noon and early evening newscasts and News Final for 11:00 p.m. newscasts, while all six City-owned broadcast stations produce morning news/talk programs under
6300-507: The other broadcasts them from Channel 10 . Israeli Army Radio general public stations broadcast the same news capsule every hour, and IBA 's Kol Israel stations broadcast theirs. Thalia Assuras Assuras was born in London, Ontario to parents who immigrated from Tripoli, Greece , after World War II . She attended London Central Secondary School , and remained in London to attend
6390-627: The outsourcing partner's own newscasts, as a result, minor network affiliates involved in these NSAs often will carry a morning newscast from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. (in competition with the national network newscasts instead of airing competing with the Big Three affiliates' newscasts) or a primetime newscast at 10:00 pm. Eastern and Pacific or 9:00 pm. Central and Mountain Time, with limited to no newscasts in other traditional news time periods (midday, late afternoon, or early evening). Because of
6480-444: The private broadcast networks, while CTV National News airs against locally produced 11:00 p.m. newscasts on other stations. The National , which has aired on CBC Television since 1954, is the longest-running national network newscast in Canada. All three networks also produce weekly newsmagazines : CBC's The Fifth Estate (aired since 1975), Global's 16x9 (aired since 2008), and CTV's W5 (aired since 1966 and currently
6570-566: The radio. NBC began broadcasts in November 1926, with CBS entering production on September 25, 1927. Both initially discussed similar topics, such as election results, presidential inaugurations, and other matters of concern to the general public. However, NBC soon emerged as the dominant force for entertainment talent. In response, CBS President William S Paley focused on giving CBS Radio an upscale reputation with better news as well as commentary programs with well-regarded hosts such as Lowell Thomas . Both broadcasters faced stiff competition from
6660-1106: The reporter provides additional information. Often in situations necessitating long-form reporting on a story (usually during breaking news situations), the reporter is interviewed by the anchor, known as a 'two-way', or a guest involved in or offering analysis on the story is interviewed by a reporter or anchor. There may also be breaking news stories which will present live rolling coverage. Television news organizations employ several anchors and reporters to provide reports (as many as ten anchors, and up to 20 reporters for local news operations or up to 30 for national news organizations). They may also employ specialty reporters that focus on reporting certain types of news content (such as traffic or entertainment ), meteorologists or weather anchors (the latter term often refers to weather presenters that do not have degrees in meteorology earned at an educational institution ) who provide weather forecasts – more common in local news and on network morning programs – and sports presenters that report on ongoing, concluded, or upcoming Packages will usually be filmed at
6750-740: The station's news department, and replace national newscasts and late-prime time network programs vacated as a result of losing its NBC affiliation (the byproduct of an affiliation switch caused by CBS and WSVN's former network partner NBC buying other stations in the market) with additional newscasts. This model was eventually replicated by many other stations affiliated with the post-1986 television networks as well as some news-producing independent stations (beginning with Fox's 1994 deals with New World Communications and SF Broadcasting that saw several major network stations change their affiliations), and also resulted in even NBC, CBS, and ABC affiliates adopting similar scheduling formats (tweaked to account for
6840-602: The station's on-air branding (such as combining the network affiliation and channel number with the word "News"), others use franchised brand names (like Eyewitness News , Action News and NewsChannel ) for their news programming. Conversely, the naming conventions for a station's newscast are sometimes used as a universal on-air branding for the station itself, and may be used for general promotional purposes, even used in promoting syndicated and network programming (such as KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma, which uses
6930-515: The studio of the CBS Evening News , and Up to the Minute was moved to the Studio 57 facility, the same studio where CBS This Morning was also broadcast, until its cancellation on September 18, 2015. On September 21, 2015, the CBS Morning News relocated to the CBSN newsroom and adopted new graphics based on those of CBS This Morning (after having previously aligned itself with the branding of
7020-499: The syndicated news program The Daily Buzz , while some Tribune Broadcasting -owned CW and MyNetworkTV stations air a similar program called EyeOpener ). 24-hour news channels are devoted to current events around the clock. They are often referred to as cable news channels. The format was originated by the cable television channel CNN (Cable News Network), which was established in 1980. Many other television channels have since been established, including what has become known as
7110-644: The talk radio model. Hyper-local news is also more feasible on the Internet: issues such as school board meetings streamed on video, town parades, and so on. Silent news films were shown in cinemas from the late 19th century. In 1909 Pathé started producing weekly newsreels in Europe. Pathé began producing newsreels for the UK in 1910 and the US in 1911. News broadcasts in the United States were initially transmitted over
7200-407: The terminology varies around the world) segueing into news stories filed by a reporter (or correspondent) by describing the story to be shown; however, some stories within the broadcast are read by the presenter themselves; in the former case, the anchor "tosses" to the reporter to introduce the featured story; likewise, the reporter "tosses" back to the anchor once the taped report has concluded and
7290-490: The third and final early morning news program to begin broadcasting in high-definition television ; its counterpart, Up to the Minute , continued to be broadcast in standard-definition television until November 2012, when the program converted to high definition. In November 2012, production of the CBS Morning News and Up to the Minute relocated in the CBS Broadcast Center . The CBS Morning News moved to
7380-486: The time); usually these programs aired as supplements to network-supplied evening news programs or leadouts for primetime programming. Reports featured on local and national television newscasts during this time were generally provided via film or still photography; eventually, videotape began to be used to provide live coverage of news events. The 1950s also saw the first use of airborne newsgathering; most notably, in 1958, Los Angeles television station KTLA began operating
7470-442: The umbrella title Breakfast Television and its flagship station CITY-DT / Toronto 's evening newscasts are titled CityNews ). Overall umbrella titles for news programming use the titling schemes " (Network or system name) News " for network-owned stations or " (Callsign) News " for affiliates not directly owned by a network or television system (although the latter title scheme was used on some network-owned stations prior to
7560-448: The umbrella title Hechos . In the cases of Univision and Telemundo, both of their evening news programs compete with national evening news programs on their English-language competitors. Fox, The CW, and MyNetworkTV do not produce national morning and evening news programs (although Fox made a brief attempt at a morning program from 1996 to 1997 with Fox After Breakfast ; many CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations air
7650-410: The uniform news and general branding NewsChannel 4 ). Many stations title their newscasts with catchy names like Daybreak , Good Morning (city or region name) , First at Four , Live at Five , Eleven @ 11:00 , or Nightcast . These names are intended to set one station apart from the rest, especially for viewers who are chosen for audience measurement surveys. If the respondent was unable to provide
7740-498: The variable scheduling of network sports programming (if a station is affiliated with a network with a sports division) usually prevents most stations from carrying midday newscasts (however a few stations located in the Eastern and Pacific time zones do produce weekend midday newscasts). From the 1940s to the 1960s, broadcast television stations typically provided local news programs only one to two times each evening for 15 minutes (the normal length for many locally produced programs at
7830-534: The wake of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television resulted in dramatic changes to many of CBS News's programs and operations. CBSN had itself experienced major issues in both producing a normal schedule, with its operations largely being outsourced temporarily to its CBS Television Stations , and with producing programs for CBS News. While CBS News did attempt to produce the CBS Morning News with limited staff and graphics from its Washington, D.C. bureau
7920-494: Was the evening anchor at Global TV in 1989. From 1992 to 1993 she worked for CTV , anchoring Canada AM . She then moved to ABC , and in May 1993, joined Aaron Brown as co-anchor of World News Now and ABC World News This Morning . She shared that anchor desk with Boyd Matson , fellow Canadian Kevin Newman , and Mark Mullen before leaving ABC in January 1997. In 1997 she moved to CBS , first joining CBS Eye on People ,
8010-522: Was the first morning news program to be broadcast on American television and in the world, when it debuted on January 14, 1952; the earliest national evening news program was The Walter Compton News , a short-lived 15-minute newscast that aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1947 to 1948. All four major English networks and the two largest Spanish networks also carry political talk programs on Sunday mornings (NBC's Meet
8100-466: Was the first murder to have been witnessed live on U.S. network television. The coverage provided by the local stations eventually led to further investments and technological developments to provide real-time news; newsgathering vehicles equipped with satellites began to be used on the local and national levels beginning in the 1970s. During the 1960s and 1970s, many stations began to provide additional news programming, beginning with midday news programs; in
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