TG5

TG5
Format News
Starring See Presenters
Country of origin Italy
Language(s) Italian
No. of episodes N/A
Production
Running time See Daily programme
Broadcast
Original channel Canale 5
Picture format 16:9 SDTV
Original run 1992 – present
External links
Website

TG5 (TeleGiornale 5) is the brand for Italian TV channel of Mediaset network Canale 5's news programmes. They are shown domestically on Canale 5 and Mediaset Plus several times throughout the day. The audience of this newscast, notably in its 08:00 PM edition, has by far the highest audience among commercial TVs in Italy. The show broadcasts from Rome. The present editor-in-chief is Clemente Mimun.

Contents

Programme format

The programme is generally presented by a single newsreader but with additional newsreaders for financial reports. Most items will be made up of reports and are generally preceded and followed by the correspondent reporting live from the scene of the report. The programme is followed by a weather report known as Meteo.

Daily programme

Name CET Time Description Running time
TG5 Prima Pagina 06:00 Headline news with horoscope, traffic, weather and financial reports. Repeats every 15 minutes (last run at 07:45 AM).
TG5 Mattina 08:00 35 mins.
TG5 Flash 09:45 From Monday to Friday. 3 mins.
TG5 Giorno 13:00 Followed by the cooking programme Gusto. 30 mins.
TG5 5 Minuti 17:55 Is the only edition broadcasted from Milan, Italy. 5 mins.
TG5 Sera 20:00 30 mins.
TG5 Notte 01:00 Presents several newspapers front-pages through a touch-screen machine 30 - 35 mins.

Presenters

Editor-in-chief

TG5 and Wikipedia

2 January 2011 the 20:00 edition of TG5 aired a highly critical report[1] accusing Wikipedia of being an 'ideological encyclopedia, which pretends to be free but asks for money to users', stating that 'historical facts cannot be modified, so the teachers and librarians across the world invited to be suspicious'. Report closed with the narrating voice saying 'Always better the dear old encyclopedia'.

External links

Notes

  1. ^ Highly critical report about Wikipedia by TG5