ABC News and Current Affairs is the name of the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that controls content classified as news, public affairs and business and finance.
However, the other divisions of the ABC also produce a range of programming within these genres. All such content is covered here.
Inside Washington, formerly Agronsky & Co., is a political roundtable show hosted by the WJLA news presenter and chief political reporter Gordon Peterson. It is produced by Allbritton, owner of WJLA, and distributed to PBS stations nationwide by American Public Television. In each broadcast, Peterson has four panelists discussing their opinions on political topics that are in the news during the week, and occasionally will bring in a fifth panelist or guest journalist via a satellite television feed.
TA NEA TOY ANT1 is a famous news television programme in Greece aired by ANT1 since 1992 and is currently hosted by Giannis Papadopoulos as well as the rest of the ANT1 News Team.
It has previously been hosted by Terrence Quick, Dimitris Stamou, Elli Stai and more recently Nikos Evagelatos.
TA NEA TOY ANT1 broadcasts its main evening news show at 20:00 and this runs for one hour. During 2000 through to 2001, the show started at 19:30 and ran for one and a half hour. Before 1997, it was broadcast for 30 minutes.
The main evening news on ANT1 has been number one in the Greek television ratings several times. The program is in direct competition for viewers with other private television stations such as Mega Channel and Alter who also broadcast their main evening news shows at 20:00. Alpha TV moved their main evening news from 20:00 to 19:00 in 2009 so no longer compete to be number one in this time slot.
TA NEA TOY ANT1 also broadcasts an afternoon edition of the program which airs at 13:00 and runs for approxima
Business International is a news program which airs on CNN International. It is anchored by Adrian Finighan and Becky Anderson from CNN's London studios.
Business International was launched in 2000. As the title implies, it gives more in-depth coverage of international business headlines. During the course of the show, market reports come from the London Stock Exchange. However in recent years, the show has devoted more air time to covering breaking world news.
The European evening edition of the show, presented by Anderson also has sports updates and a preview of the following day's newspaper headlines.
First National was a Canadian television newscast, which aired on the Global Television Network's stations in Ontario and Manitoba from 1994 to 2001. It was also seen in Quebec after Global launched there in 1997. The program's anchor was Peter Kent.
Although the newscast aired in only three provinces at most, its format was that of a national newscast, broadcasting national and international, rather than local, news.
On February 9, 2001, following Global's acquisition of the WIC group of stations, First National aired its final broadcast. Global aired WIC's Canada Tonight in its place until Global National debuted on September 4. Kent then moved into a management role with the network; he later left broadcasting to pursue a career in Canadian politics.
Up to the Minute is an American overnight television news program that is broadcast on CBS during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday. The program offers hard news, features, interviews, weather forecasts, sports highlights, business and commentary. Up to the Minute draws from the full resources of CBS News, including the CBS Evening News, Newspath, affiliate stations, the CBS Radio Network and Reuters Television. It rebroadcasts selected stories from CBS News Sunday Morning, 48 Hours, 60 Minutes and Face the Nation. The program is currently solo anchored by Anne Marie Green.
Howard K. Smith: News and Comment was a half-hour ABC news and documentary program hosted by commentator Howard K. Smith, which aired from February 14, 1962, to June 16, 1963. It was broadcast at the 10:30 Eastern time slot on Sundays opposite CBS's long-running quiz show, What's My Line?, hosted by John Charles Daly, himself the first ever ABC News anchorman.
In 1961, Smith left CBS News because of a dispute about a documentary that he produced on police violence against civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama. He then joined ABC, where his contract stipulated that neither the network nor sponsors could interfere with the content of his program.
While at CBS, Smith hosted the documentary program Behind the News with Howard K. Smith for twenty-one weeks from January 11 to September 20, 1959. Selected episodes focused on communism in Cuba, the status of Berlin, the Cold War, Charles de Gaulle, Nikita Khrushchev, unemployment in depressed areas, and the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Smith's News and Comment began
TV Patrol Bicol is the local news network broadcast of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group for the Bicol Region. The newscast is done in a tabloid-style format. The program delivers news headlines about the current events in the Bicol Region and in other places nationwide using the Central Bikolano language as a medium of delivery.
It is aired live daily from ABS-CBN Naga at 5:15 PM, from Monday to Friday, simulcast over ABS-CBN TV-4 Legazpi, TV-10 Daet and Masbate, TV-7 Sorsogon and Virac.
Channel M News was a regional television news service covering the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, produced by Channel M, partly in conjunction with the Manchester Evening News.
Launched in 2004, Channel M News aired each weekday evening alongside a weekly review programme and occasional documentary specials. Breakfast, lunchtime and late evening news bulletins were also produced throughout the programme's run.
Channel M News was produced and broadcast from the station's studios at Urbis and the MEN Media newsroom at Spinningfields in Manchester City Centre. The programme had previously been pre-recorded from small temporary studios in The Triangle shopping centre, The Printworks entertainment complex and Urbis before going live from a new, larger studio at Urbis in May 2006, looking out towards Cathedral Gardens and the Manchester Victoria railway station.
The final evening edition of Channel M News was broadcast on Friday 10 July 2009. From Monday 13 July 2009, the station's news coverage was incorporated
BrassTacks is a Pakistani weekly Defense & Strategic political show, hosted by a defense and security analyst Zaid Zaman Hamid telecast by News One. It is aired on Sundays at 8 p.m.
MAG TV Na! is the brand of regional talk or magazine shows of different ABS-CBN Regional Network Group stations in the Philippines. There are some versions of MAG TV Na! use magazine-like graphics. An example is a video squeezed into a page of a magazine. Mag-TV family of programs are not available in the Metro Manila market.
News at 6:30, is the evening and flagship national news programme broadcast Monday to Sunday at 6:30pm in Hong Kong by television channel TVB Jade. This programme first aired in TVB Jade on 19 November 1967, with broadcasting time at 6:30pm. News at 6:30 is also for free reviewing on TVB News' website.
News at 6:30 does not normally air in high definition from Monday to Friday; the HD Jade channel instead airs an extra bulletin, News at 7. The bulletin is simulcast on both SD and HD versions of Jade on Saturday and Sunday.
BBC London News is the BBC's regional television news programme for the English region encompassing London and the surrounding areas. Its local competitor is ITV News London, which is produced by ITN for ITV London.
BBC London News is broadcast seven days a week on BBC One in London and the surrounding areas, with short bulletins during BBC Breakfast, after the BBC News at One, and after the BBC News at Ten. The flagship programme airs between 18:30 and 18:55 each weekday evening and is usually presented by Riz Lateef. Weekend bulletins are broadcast on Saturday lunchtime and early evening and on Sunday evening. Lateef became the main presenter of the flagship programme in March 2006 when she replaced Emily Maitlis who left to join the BBC News channel and BBC Two's Newsnight.
Weather forecasts are normally provided by former BBC national forecaster Peter Cockroft, during the weekday evening and late bulletins, or Wendy Hurrell, Kate Kinsella or Elizabeth Rizzini during BBC Breakfast, lunchtime and weekends. Duri
BBC Look North is the BBC's TV news service for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, produced by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The programmes are produced and broadcast from the BBC Broadcasting Centre at Queens Court in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire with reporters also based in Grimsby, Lincolnshire and Lincoln.
Peter Levy regularly presents the programme during weekday evenings at 6:30 with weekends, nights and bulletins on Daybreak covered by others from the news team. The weather presenters include Paul Hudson, Keeley Donovan, Lisa Gallagher.
The programme can be watched in any part of the UK from Astra 1N on Freesat channel 967 and Sky channel 957, and in select areas on Virgin Media channel 858. The latest edition of Look North is also available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.
Prairie Fire was a United States television news magazine focusing on Central Illinois. It was produced by WILL-TV, a public broadcasting station owned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. One of the longest-running local TV programs in central Illinois, it last aired in 2010.
Daybreak Northern Ireland was the regional news strand for Northern Ireland provided for the ITV breakfast station ITV Breakfast.
Unlike the ITV plc-owned regions, UTV - the ITV contractor for Northern Ireland - did not provide regional news broadcasts during Daybreak. This was due to a dispute between UTV and GMTV which dates back to 1994 when UTV opted out of the national breakfast contractor in breach of their broadcasting licence to provide live coverage of the breaking news of the Combined Loyalist ceasefire.
GMTV Northern Ireland was rebranded as Daybreak Northern Ireland in September 2010, when GMTV was replaced by new breakfast programme, Daybreak. Regional bulletins aired three times each weekday, and included a look at the days main headlines, a travel news update, and a weather forecast.
Palaban is a news and public affairs program of GMA Network hosted by Winnie Monsod, former Miss Universe Runner-Up Miriam Quiambao and Malou Mangahas. The program replaced the award-winning Debate with Mare at Pare in which it aired for almost a decade.