News broadcasting

News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting of various news events and other information via television, radio or 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. It may also include additional material such as sports coverage, weather forecasts, traffic reports, commentary and other material that the broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience.

Television news

Television news refers to disseminating 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 world, national, regional or local news events. There are numerous providers of broadcast news content such as NBC, CNN or Fox News, as well as numerous programs that regularly provide this content such as NBC Nightly News. Television news is very image-based, showing video footage of many of the events that are reported; still photography is also used in reporting news stories, although not as much in recent years as in the early days of broadcast television. Television channels may provide news bulletins as part of a regularly scheduled news program. Less often, television shows may be interrupted or replaced by breaking news reports ("news flashes") to provide news updates on events of great importance.

Chiltern Radio Network

Chiltern Radio plc (known as The Chiltern Radio Network) was the parent group of several radio stations which operated two radio brands in the UK in the 1990s.

Branding

The two main brands were:

Network News

The Chiltern Radio Network also set up a satellite news service as a direct competitor to IRN called Network News. The service ran from 5 July 1991 until 1 April 1996 and supplied hourly national news bulletins and audio cuts to stations within the Chiltern Radio Network. Other clients included Virgin Radio, Radio Luxembourg, Choice FM in London and Birmingham, Spectrum Radio, Radio XL, Sunshine 855, Radio Maldwyn, Wear FM and Belfast City Radio.

CNN Philippines Network News

CNN Philippines Network News, (titled as CNN Philippines Network News with Pia Hontiveros for its weekday broadcasts) or simply Network News is the flagship evening newscast of CNN Philippines, airing seven days a week at 6:00pm PST. Premiered on June 18, 2012, the program's 60-minute weekday broadcast is anchored by the network's chief correspondent Pia Hontiveros and a 30-minute weekend edition is anchored by Mai Rodriguez.

Background

As a weekday newscast

The newscast was first known as Solar Network News and was launched on June 18, 2012 on Talk TV, by then aired on SBN UHF Channel 21, as a result of the formation as Solar Television Network's news and current affairs division, which in turn was brought by privatization of Radio Philippines Network (RPN-9) by Solar Entertainment. It was carried over upon the channel's rebranding as Solar News Channel in October 30, with its graphics updated on January 7, 2013.

Solar Network News was simulcasted on Radio Philippines Network (by then affiliated by Solar Entertainment-operated ETC) from October 30, 2012 until January 11, 2013 after RPN-9 ceased production of its evening newscast RPN NewsWatch due to the retrenchment of the program's production team and other employees of the privatized network. The simulcast, however, was given to Solar Nightly News (which is at the mid-evening timeslot) on January 14 onwards to allow the via satellite broadcast of American Idol season 12 to Free TV (over-the-air) viewers (The original plan was to limit the AI via satellite broadcast to cable viewers while RPN will continue to air the newscast at 6 PM.). On December 1, 2013, Solar News Channel switched its affiliation to RPN-9, making it a program at its own right.