It is dependent upon the channel and time of broadcast to how the news is presented and structured. Each channel has a house style that it follows for all it's news broadcasts.
News on Television not only includes actual news programmes (IE, evening and 10 'o' clock) but also Breakfast news and 24 hour news channels.
Breakfast News:
Magazine style Format with News Bulletins every hour hour along with local news bulletins.
2 presenters, 1 male,1 female, lots of banter.
Interviews with people involved with news stories (victims, relatives celebrities etc...)
BBC vs GMTV
BBC Breakfast follows a similar magazine format but also includes business reports on the stock exchange and share prices, where as GMTV include sections dedicated to fashion items and entertainment news.
Local News
Local news bulletins have 2 slightly different styles. The lunch time and morning bulletins and night time headlines are more serious in tone, whilst the evening programmes are longer in duration and less formal. The studios for BBC Local News (Look North) are designed to look the same as the studios of BBC National news, using the same colour scheme and similar layout.
Evening News
The evening news bulletins are produced in a way that is easily digestible. They provide detailed coverage of the top news stories without being too analytical.
10 'o' Clock News
These bulletins are more serious in tone and offer more in depth analysis. They often show footage that is more graphic than on previous bulletins as the Target Audience is older and the programme is broadcast after the watershed.
Channel 4 News
The Evening news on Channel 4 is broadcast at 7pm after the news on the other terrestrial channels have finished. This broadcast offers a more analytical look at the days news. the target audience are business people that get home later and are wanting an in depth account of the news.
24hour News Channels
Provide constant rolling news. dependent upon the time of day the schedule varies slightly to whether they include questions and debate, but breaking news always takes president. The schedules always include dedicated sections for world news, business news, sports news and also Prime Minister's Question Time. Each Channel has their own style, but usually have a formal direct mode of address.
Programme Structure.
All News Programmes have a narrative structure - a beginning middle and an end. The Majority of Broadcasts follow similar running order with stories declining in importance the later in the bulletin they are situated:
Headlines
Main Story
News Stories
Sports News
Entertainment News
Headline Recap
'And Finally'
"And Finally' stories are light hearted often bizarre news that enable the programme to end on a happy note.
Click on the picture below to see the codes and conventions for TV News.
Take a look around the virtual studio at the sky news and find out more about how a story turns into a news report:
Sky News
Have a look at the guidelines from the BBC training site, these explain how best to write a script for a news bulletin:
BBC Style Guide
Radio News
News on Radio has to be short and to the point. Radio bulletins follow a very simple format of headlines and then brief details of the story. Commercial stations often use vox pops and snipets of interviews with 'experts' to create variety and seperate the stories.
BBC Radio 4 Provides indepth news coverage starting 6am through to 9am and again at 5pm through to 6.30pm. They also have the hourly headlines, these bulletins have a more serious tone.
BBC Style Guide Radio
Inside the BBC Radio Newsroom
Historic News
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