News channel

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A news station (also news channel ) is a special- interest program on television or radio with a focus on news . It is usually broadcast around the clock, with the program including news broadcasts at least every half hour. An information-oriented program is broadcast between the news broadcasts, with current talk shows , magazine programs or documentaries predominating , depending on the broadcaster . For important current events in the current program for breaking news (Engl. Breaking news be interrupted). It is controversial how high the proportion of other program elements that are not related to current events and the proportion of tabloid topics may be in order to be allowed to call the programs news channels.

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N24 reporter reports live from the collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne (March 3, 2009)

The first television news channel is CNN , which began broadcasting on June 1, 1980 and is now available worldwide with several branches. The concept has been copied worldwide since the early 1990s, so that today every major media company operates its own news channel.

The globally broadcast English-language programs CNN International , BBC World News and RT are considered the world's largest news channels . Other international news channels known in the German-speaking area and receivable via cable or satellite are the multilingual European joint program Euronews , the Arabic channel Al Jazeera (since 2007 also with an English version ), France 24 and teleSUR .

In Germany there are two commercial news channels: n-tv operated by the RTL Group and N24 , founded by ProSiebenSat.1 Media , which is now part of the Axel Springer Group under the name Welt . Both companies have strongly integrated the news channels into their family of channels. Most of the news reports are produced by the news channels and included in the news programs of the station group. However, since the turn of the millennium, the proportion of news on both channels has been steadily decreasing in favor of infotainment and documentation .

The public broadcasters in Germany operate DW-TV, an international special-interest channel with news, which is intended for use abroad . Their newsrooms can fall back on worldwide correspondent networks and supply the detailed news programs of their own full and information-specific programs with news and background reports. The English-language news channel DW News will broadcast within DW-TV from April 2015.

In order to better meet the public service information mandate even in the age of digital savings, it is planned to expand individual information-specific programs from ARD and ZDF into pure news channels. This started in June 2008 with the introduction of the digital ARD channel tagesschau24 . Phoenix , which has been broadcasting since 1997 , is also sometimes referred to as a news channel. Commercial broadcasters see this as an economic threat to their own news channels.

Radio

Large broadcasters have always had a large amount of news in their main programs. The BBC, Radio France and others broadcast news journals several times a day in addition to the hourly news. The actual news radios originated in the USA ( CBS News and others) and came onto the German market from the 1990s.

German news channels

Important news channels on German radio are

All of these programs are produced by public broadcasters of the ARD , in the case of Deutschlandfunk by Deutschlandradios . Attempts to establish privately produced radio news channels in Germany, such as Radioropa Info or FAZ Businessradio , have so far not been successful in the long term.

Swiss news channel

In Switzerland , the Swiss public radio and television operates the news channel Radio SRF 4 News , which is broadcast via DAB .

criticism

Critics complain that the constant live broadcasts mean that there is hardly any time for research on news channels , which leads to superficial reporting. The work of journalists is often limited to the mere reproduction of press releases , and press conferences have taken on the character of briefings .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Welle: German, please , FAZ.net , December 17, 2014