Fréttir, íþróttir og veður

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Fréttir, íþróttir og veður
Format	News
Starring	Bogi Ágústsson Elín Hirst, head of news Jóhanna Vigdís Hjaltadóttir Margrét Marteinsdóttir Páll Magnússon, CEO of RÚV
Country of origin	Iceland
No. of episodes	N/A (airs daily)
Production
Running time	30 minutes (not including weather forecast)
Broadcast
Original channel	Sjónvarpið
Original run	1966 – present

Fréttir, íþróttir og veður (English: News, sports and weather), is the principal nightly television news program of the Icelandic public television channel Sjónvarpið. The program has been broadcast since the channel was launched in 1966 and is the second highest rated television program in Iceland. Each of the five news anchors hosts the program for several nights each month.

The show airs at 7 p.m. with news coverage for about 25 minutes followed by sports for about 5 minutes. The weather forecast is then broadcast after a commercial break.