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TVB's news division is renowned for its factual accuracy and quality, as well as its speed. However, this reputation was (debatably) damaged following some controversy about their coverage of the WTO protests (see Below ). No special news investigations are aired during the broadcast, only short news bulletins are aired. NEWSCASTS TVB News is broadcast at the following time slots: TVB Jade newscasts
TVB Pearl newscasts
Format All newscasts on TVB Jade are in Cantonese , except ''Putonghua Financial Report'', which is in Putonghua (aka Mandarin). ''Good Morning Hong Kong'' and ''Putonghua Financial Report'' are seen Monday to Saturday, and other business newscasts are seen on weekdays. Also, programmes have in-vision captions for the hearing impaired, as mandated by local regulations. The starting sequence of the news features the sound of Morse Code . The sound heard corresponds to the Morse Code signal for "Today News". Standalone weather reports are aired after the News at 6:30 pm on TVB Jade and the News at 7:30 pm 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 stylized and comical format is considered an institution, and is widely recognized by many Hong Kong People . (The rest of the weather forecast is read by an actual human presenter.) NEWS PROGRAMMES Investigate reporting and long news stories are often shown on three programmes: ''Tuesday Report'' (星期二檔案) and ''News Magazine'' (新聞透視) on TVB Jade and ''The Pearl Report'' (明珠檔案) on TVB Pearl . ''Tuesday 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. TVB 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 paid TV platform TVB Pay Vision (無綫收費電視). INTEGRITY CONTROVERSY During the 2005 WTO demonstrations, a reporter donned a crash helmet during a live report. Peaceful, onlooking protestors insisted there was no danger or threat of danger and noted that no other crew members were wearing protective gear. A Western demonstrator attempted to highlight the issue to the audience but was tackled by TVB crew members. Protestors chanted for her to remove the helmet and show some journalistic integrity as the scene was peaceful. TVB have made no apology for the incident and the reporter insists she was following instructions from the control room. See external links for documentary. EXTERNAL LINKS Official websites |
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