TVB News
TVB News (Chinese: 無綫新聞), formally known as the News and Information Division (新聞及資訊部), is the newsgathering arm of Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). Its slogan is "TVB News Cares" (無綫新聞 事事關心).
History
TVB in 19 November 1967 the News Report programme, the evening News at 7:30 and Latest News (22:30). In 16 November 1970, added Noon News and News Headlines. In 1 November 1976, News at 7:30 early one-hour, was renamed News at 6:30. In 1 January 1968, the first Morning Talk and News programme, Report Hiu Nga Episodes, news editor Edward Ho hosts, In 19 April 1976 to 29 April 1977, was renamed Morning News Report. In 6 September 1981, was renamed Morning News bulletin Good Morning Hong Kong from Monday to Saturday. 19 November 1967 news anchor main male, the first: David Lee, Josiah Lau, Chu Wai Tak, Stephen Shiu. Until 2 January 1978, and now first anchor main female Anite Yip. In 4 January 1988 the News titles added Today's Date and changed news focus introduction. In 1 January 1980 started in Cantonese guest and computer subtitles, 3 January 1983 TVB News first News at 9:30 news programmes added subtitles, until News File 14 May 1993 broadcasting until ending, In 2 September 1996, again computer subtitles and now the first to News Report programme, until anchor Report added, In 21 September 2003 we moved to Tseung Kwan O TVB City after recorded report added subtitles, and now Present.
In 13 July 2008, TVB News programmes started in 16:9, guests, anchor clip. In 2 February 2009, TVB News programmes started in High Definition. In 30 June 2012, TVB iNews Standard Definition to High Definition, in High Definition News ticker, New News Titles.
In 27 August 2012, tvb.com the first news and cellular, more News, Finance, Weather and Information.
In 15 November 2012, Weather Report first high definition subtitles, In 1 January 2013, TVB Jade, TVB HD Jade and TVB Pearl news report first high definition subtitles, TVB iNews started news report added high definition subtitles.
In 20 May 2013, TVB iNews live and rebroadcast news times, financial programmes and part of this main programmes continued in high definition.
In 14 July 2013, TVB News finished high definition, all programmes (Virtual studio, guests clip and images) until high definition.
In 1 June 2014, TVB News main news studio changed the new studio, news programmes changed the new titles, subtitles, namecard (Good Morning Hong Kong In 9 June changed the titles).
Broadcasting and Production
TVB News Time Schedule the months anchors, first news report from Monday to Friday or Saturday & Sunday don't anchors, News at 6:30, News at 7 and News at 7:30 male and female two presenters, Good Morning Hong Kong news and finance two presenters, and other programmes. Except Noon News, Monday to Friday News at 6:30 and News at 7, TVB Jade and TVB HD Jade main news with sports anchors. TVB iNews and TVBN Main News at 8 Hong Kong Stock Exchange with Finance anchors and everyday sports anchors, and other programmes. In 2 February 2009, TVB News focus changed Monday to Friday News Roundup, broadcast added special, first anchors, added focus report and first broadcasting television. Live, reporter changed head, added or anchors. In March 2015, Luk Hon-tak, former director-general of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), became the managing editor of TVB News in charge of political news stories.[1]
Newscasts
TVB News is broadcast at the following time slots on the company's free-to-air channels, TVB Jade, TVB HD Jade, TVB Pearl, TVBN (TVB Payvision News channel), and TVB i-News channel.
TVB Jade/HD Jade newscasts
For the column "Channel",
"Jade": programme broadcast on TVB Jade only;
"hdJ": programme broadcast on TVB HD Jade only;
"Simulcast": programme broadcast on both channels at the same time;
"On News Channel": programme is also broadcast on TVBN and iNews.
| Programme | Airtime | Day | Channel | On News Channel | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Chinese | Start | End | |||
| Good Morning Hong Kong | 香港早晨 | 06:30 | 08:55 | Mon-Sat | Jade | Yes |
| Inside the Stock Exchange | 交易現場 | 09:00 | 09:30 | Hong Kong Stock Exchange Trading Day |
Jade | No |
| 10:00 | 10:10 | hdJ | ||||
| 11:40 | 11:45 | Jade | ||||
| 11:50 | 12:00 | hdJ | ||||
| 12:50 | 13:00 | Jade | ||||
| 14:45 | 14:50 | Jade | ||||
| 15:05 | 15:15 | hdJ | ||||
| 16:15 | 16:20 | Jade | ||||
| News Headlines | 新聞提要 | 10:15 | (2 minutes duration) |
Mon-Fri | hdJ | No |
| 11:35 | Simulcast | |||||
| 15:15 | ||||||
| 16:40 | hdJ | |||||
| 20:45 | Daily | Simulcast | ||||
| 21:45 | ||||||
| 22:45 | Sat/Sun | |||||
| Noon News | 午間新聞 | 13:00 | 13:15 | Mon-Fri | Simulcast | No |
| 13:10 | Sat/Sun | |||||
| Financial Report | 財經新聞 | 17:50 | 17:55 | Mon-Fri | Simulcast | No |
| 19:20 | 19:30 | hdJ | ||||
| News at 6:30 | 六點半新聞報道 | 18:30 | 18:55 | Mon-Fri | Jade | Yes |
| Sat/Sun | Simulcast | |||||
| News at 7 | 七點新聞報道 | 19:00 | 19:20 | Mon-Fri | hdJ | Yes |
| Weather Report | 天氣報告 | 18:55 | 19:00 | Mon-Fri | Jade | No |
| Sat/Sun | Simulcast | |||||
| 23:55 | 23:59 | Mon-Fri | ||||
| 23:50 | 23:55 | Sat/Sun | ||||
| News Roundup | 晚間新聞 | 23:05 | 23:50 | Mon-Fri | Simulcast | No |
| 23:30 | 23:50 | Sat/Sun | ||||
| Today's Finance | 今日財經 | 00:01 | 00:05 | Mon-Fri | Jade | No |
| Tuesday Report | 星期日檔案 | 19:30 | 20:00 | Sunday | Jade | No |
| News Magazine | 新聞透視 | 19:30 | 20:00 | Saturday | Jade | No |
| Finance Magazine | 財經透視 | 18:00 | 18:30 | Sunday | Jade | No |
| 00:05 | 00:35 | |||||
TVB Pearl newscasts
| Programme | Language | Airtime | Day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | |||
| Inside the Stock Exchange | Putonghua | 10:30 | (30-minute duration) | Hong Kong Stock Exchange Trading Day |
| 11:30, 14:00, 15:58 | (2–3-minute duration) | |||
| Putonghua News | 18:00 | 18:15 | Daily | |
| Putonghua Financial Report | 18:15 | 18:20 | Mon-Fri | |
| Putonghua Weather Report | 18:20 | 18:25 | Mon-Fri | |
| 18:15 | 18:20 | Sat/Sun | ||
| Financial Report | English | 18:25 | 18:35 | Mon-Fri |
| News at 7:30 | 19:30 | 19:50 | Daily | |
| Weather Report | 19:50 | 19:55 | Daily | |
| News Headlines | 21:30 | (1 to 2-minute duration) | Daily | |
| Market Place | 22:30 | 22:35 | Mon-Fri | |
| World Market Update | 23:30 | 23:35 | Mon-Fri | |
| News Roundup | 23:35 | 23:50 | Mon-Thu | |
| Varies start time between 23:30 to 00:45 |
(15-minute duration) | Fri-Sun | ||
| The Pearl Report | 20:00 | 20:30 | Monday | |
| 01:05 | 01:35 | Tuesday | ||
| 12:00 | 12:25 | Saturday | ||
| Money Magazine | 19:00 | 19:30 | Sunday | |
| 01:05 | 01:35 | |||
Format
All newscasts on TVB Jade are in Cantonese, Putonghua Financial Report, which is in Mandarin. 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 (this was originally only used on the Jade version's News File, 新聞簡報). In the past, 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 21:00.
The starting sequence of the news features the sound of the Morse code signal for "NEWS TODAY"
(-· · ·-- ··· - --- -·· ·- -·--), with the pitch at about 1700 Hz.
Standalone weather reports are aired after the News at 6:30 on TVB Jade and the News at 7:30 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 stylised and comical format is considered an institution, and is widely recognised by many Hong Kong people. (The rest of the weather forecast is read by an actual human presenter.)
After the news and/or weather is presented, Earth Live usually follows afterwards, which is produced by earthTV. However, not all newscasts on TVB Jade are not followed by that programme, but will instead return to the current programme. The only exception is Good Morning Hong Kong, which would air Earth Live first, then immediately start the morning news. Earth Live also airs a couple more times during their morning news programme.
News programmes
Investigative reports and extended news stories are often shown on three programmes: Sunday Report (星期日檔案) and News Magazine (新聞透視) on TVB Jade, and The Pearl Report (明珠檔案) 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 (無綫新聞台), carried on the pay TV platform TVB Pay Vision (無綫收費電視) and iNews (互動新聞台) (Start from 11 November 2008) on HK Digital TV Broadcast (Channel 83). 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.
The transmission of iNews (互動新聞台) have been upgraded from SDTV to HDTV video format on 30 June 2012.
Criticism
Due to the reporting, or lack thereof, of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and many other incidents where TVB ignored to report news that concerning its own interests, internet forum users have labelled TVB "CCTVB". During one live broadcast at the event of the 20th Anniversary gathering to commemorate the Tiananmen incident, a man raised a sign that reads in Chinese "無線新聞 事事旦旦", which mocks TVB, saying that they do not care. The camera shifted away quickly during the broadcast, and ever since then, camera crews have reacted to possible sign-bearers by pointing the camera away during takes. In replays of the said footage, the portion where the sign was visible was cut.
 seven plainclothes policemen beating up a handcuffed protester |
During the 2014 protests, TVB's broadcast of footage of seven police officers beating a protester on 15 October resulted in significant internal conflict during the broadcast.[2] The pre-dawn broadcasts soundtrack which mentioned "punching and kicking" was re-recorded, and later bulletins said that the officers were "suspected of using excessive force".[3] TVB director Keith Yuen questioned what grounds lead the footage to say "officers dragged him to a dark corner, and punched and kicked him"?[3] Ho Wing-hong, the assistant supervisor of the news-gathering team responsible for the footage, was immediately demoted to Chief Researcher, a post with only a part-time subordinate.[4][5] Many journalists expressed their dissatisfaction with the handling of the broadcast, and some 80 TVB staff from all departments objecting to the handling sent a petition to management.[2][6] After several of its reporters were assaulted by activists attending a pro-Beijing rally, over 340 station employees put their names to a petition condemning the violence. A director of production in the non-drama department ordered all petitioners to a meeting with their supervisors, where the employees were asked to remove their signature or jeopardise their year end bonuses.[7] In March 2015, Luk Hon-tak's appointment as the managing editor of TVB News in charge of political news stories caused some concern. Although news director Keith Yuen maintained that there were no political considerations in Luk’s appointment, some TVB News staff are questioning the unusual appointment and the political nature of the role. They pointed to Luk's strongly pro-establishment background, as most of the senior management posts were filled by internal promotion.[1] There was an exodus of in late February when at least seven journalists, including Ho Wing-hong, tendered their resignations.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Former DAB official hired as TVB News managing editor". EJ Insight.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lau, Kenneth; Siu, Jasmine (16 October 2014). "Reporters voice anger at TVB". The Standard.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "TVB boss backs news chief's handling of police 'beating'". 18 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ↑ "TVB何永康被調職 記協指涉嫌秋後算賬" (in Chinese). Sina Corp.
- ↑ "TVB新聞部秋後算賬 主任貶做資料搜集". Apple Daily (in Chinese). 1 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ↑ "「TVB新聞女神」驚傳要走人 網友揣測是「被辭職」" [TVB News Goddess, Snowy Choi, suddenly rumoured to have left; netizens speculating 'forced resignation']. Liberty Times. 18 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ↑ "TVB leans on staff who sign anti-violence petition". EJ Insight.
- ↑ http://www.ejinsight.com/20150226-media-freedom-concerns-arise-as-journalists-quit/
External links
Official websites
- (Chinese) TVB News official website
- (Chinese) TVB News Channel official website
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