TVB News
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TVB News (Chinese: 無綫新聞), formally known as the News and Information Division (新聞及資訊部), the newsgathering arm of Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), whose flagship channels, TVB Jade and TVB Pearl, are the premier channels in Hong Kong. The slogan of TVB News is "TVB Cares" (無綫新聞 事事關心).
TVB's news division is renowned for its factual accuracy and quality, as well as its speed.
No special news investigations are aired during the broadcast, only short news bulletins are aired.
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[edit] Newscasts
TVB News is broadcast at the following time slots:
[edit] TVB Jade newscasts
- 6:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.: Good Morning Hong Kong (香港早晨, in Cantonese)
- 12:50 p.m.: Putonghua Financial Report (普通話財經消息, in Putonghua)
- 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.: Noon News (午間新聞, in Cantonese)
- 5:50 p.m.: Financial Report (財經消息, in Cantonese)
- 6:30 p.m.: News at 6:30 (六點半新聞報道, in Cantonese)
- 9:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. (times vary): News File (新聞簡報, in Cantonese)
- 11:35 p.m.: News Roundup (晚間新聞, in Cantonese), followed by Business Today (今日財經, in Cantonese)
[edit] TVB Pearl newscasts
- 6:00 p.m.: Putonghua News (普通話新聞, in Putonghua)
- 6:20 p.m.: Financial Report (in English)
- 7:30 p.m.: News at 7:30 (in English)
- 9:00 p.m. (1980's only): News at 9 (in English)
- 9:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. (times vary): News File (in English)
- Five minutes before the News Roundup: World Market Update (in English)
- News Roundup, time varies daily, the earliest shown at 11:20 p.m., the latest shown almost at 1:00 a.m. the next day (in English), but usually will start from 11:45 p.m. to midnight on weekdays
[edit] Format
All newscasts on TVB Jade are in Cantonese, except Putonghua Financial Report, which is in Putonghua (aka Mandarin). Good Morning Hong Kong and Putonghua Financial Report are seen Monday to Saturday, and other business newscasts are seen on weekdays. Also, programmes have in-vision captions for the hearing impaired, as mandated by local regulations (this was originally only used on the Jade version's News File). In the early days of TVB News, both channels aired a 5-minute News File, giving the top headlines of the day and a preview of the News Roundup; it usually aired at varied times around the 9:00 p.m. hour. (Earliest at 9:00, latest at 9:30)
The starting sequence of the news features the sound of Morse Code. The sound heard corresponds to the Morse Code signal for "Today News".
Standalone weather reports are aired after the News at 6:30 p.m. on TVB Jade and the News at 7:30 p.m. on TVB Pearl. They are famous for Freddy (天氣先生), a cartoon figure which gives the forecast for the next day. The highly stylized and comical format is considered an institution, and is widely recognized by many Hong Kong people. (The rest of the weather forecast is read by an actual human presenter.)
[edit] News programmes
Investigate reporting and long news stories are often shown on three programmes: Tuesday Report (星期二檔案) and News Magazine (新聞透視) on TVB Jade and The Pearl Report (明珠檔案) on TVB Pearl. Tuesday Report and The Pearl Report focus more on stories involving individuals and has a softer approach, while News Magazine focuses more on social problems in general.
[edit] Controversy
Controversy erupted in mid-2004 when TVB news introduced two inexperienced, yet attractive, female journalists to anchor TVB Jade's flagship 6:30PM News. Both presenters were recent university graduates and had only joined TVB News Channel for a few months before being switched to TVB Jade. This caused much consternations among the public and within TVB News because the anchor chair on the 6:30 News is usually reserved for those who are most experienced.
[edit] News channel
Additionally, TVB's news department is also responsible for the output on the 24-hour news channel, TVBN(無綫新聞台), carried on the pay TV platform TVB Pay Vision (無綫收費電視). On June 2006, another news channel, TVBN 2(無綫新聞2台), will also be carried on the pay TV platform TVB Pay Vision.
