TVB News

TVB News , formally known as the News and Information Division , is the newsgathering arm of Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited . The slogan of TVB News is "TVB Cares" . TVB's news division is renowned for its factual accuracy, quality, and immediacy.

Newscasts

TVB News is broadcast at the following time slots on the company's free-to-air channels, TVB Jade and TVB Pearl.

TVB Jade newscasts

* 6:30 a.m.: ''Good Morning Hong Kong ''
* 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.: ''Noon News''
* 5:50 p.m.: ''Financial Report''
* 6:30 p.m.: ''Jade Prime News''
* Between 8:30 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. : ''News Headlines'' , or ''News File''
* 11:35 p.m.: ''News Roundup'' , followed by ''Today's Finance''

TVB Pearl newscasts

* 7:00 a.m.: ''TV-am News''
* 6:20 p.m.: ''Financial Report''
* 6:35 p.m.: ''Putonghua News''
* 7:30 p.m.: ''News At 7:30''
* Between 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. : ''News Headlines'' , or ''News File''
* 11:40 p.m.: ''World Market Update''
* Between 11:45 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.: ''News Roundup''

Format

All newscasts on TVB Jade are in , except ''Putonghua Financial Report'', which is in . ''Good Morning Hong Kong'' and ''Putonghua Financial Report'', and other business newscasts are seen on weekdays. Also, programmes have in-vision captions for the hearing impaired, as mandated by local regulations . 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 various times around the 9:00 p.m. hour .

The starting sequence of the news features the sound of Morse Code. The sound heard corresponds to the Morse Code signal for "NEWS TODAY".

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 , 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 .

News programmes

Investigative reports and extended news stories are often shown on three programmes: ''Tuesday Report'' and ''News Magazine'' on TVB Jade, and ''The Pearl Report'' on TVB Pearl. ''Sunday 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.

News channel

Additionally, TVB's news department is also responsible for the output on the 24-hour news channel, TVBN, carried on the pay TV platform TVB Pay Vision . On June 2006, another news channel, TVBN 2, will also be carried on the pay TV platform TVB Pay Vision.

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