A television news screen layout or television news screen interface refers to the layout image displayed during a television

news program News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televi ...

broadcast. The layouts used differ between television stations and countries, and information displayed may include things such as main news topics and headlines within the

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, channel logos, a

news ticker A news ticker (sometimes called a "crawler", "crawl", "slide", "zipper", or "ticker tape") is a horizontal or vertical (depending on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lo ...

, a time clock, and in some cases weather and

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information. Different layouts may be used within

news broadcasting News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or tele ...

to achieve varying effects, and designs are often formulated by broadcast designers with the intention of being informative and visually appealing. The main purpose of television news screen layouts are to present to viewers a concentrated level of information within the shortest amount of time possible, whilst maintaining a reasonably adequate balance so that excessive detail does not confuse the viewer.Rodrigues, R., (2012). A Television News Graphical Layout Analysis Method Using Eye Tracking. ''International Conference on Information Visualisation, 16'', pp.357–362.

Screen interface composition

Malaysia

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, Malaysian Mandarin television news programs tend to veer towards simpler and concise designs. Television channels of differing geographical regions and channel topics vary in their general appearance. The free-to-air terrestrial channel of 8TV since a major redesign on 8 April 2022 with relatively different news screen interfaces with 8TV having a much more complex layout containing a double news ticker for news information.

Mainland China

Within

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, news programs tend to veer towards simpler and concise designs. Television channels of differing geographical regions and channel topics vary in their general appearance. The news channel of

China Central Television China Central Television (CCTV) is a Chinese state- and political party-owned broadcaster controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its 50 different channels broadcast a variety of programing to more than one billion viewers in six lan ...

CCTV-13 CCTV-13 (, China Central Television News Channel), formerly CCTV News (), broadcasting across China since 2003, is a 24-hour news channel of China Central Television and the biggest news channel in mainland China. Content CCTV News channel br ...

, has adopted a design more similar to that of Taiwanese television channels since a major redesign in 2009. Not long after the redesign of CCTV-13, regional channels such as Dragon Television and Hunan Television adapted a Taiwanese-influenced interface design based similarly on that of CCTV-13. The CCTV international (

CCTV-4 CCTV-4 is a Chinese free-to-air television channel. It is one of six China Central Television channels that broadcasts outside the People's Republic of China. This channel contains a variety of programs including documentaries, music, news, dra ...

) and finance ( CCTV-2) channels adopted relatively different news screen interfaces, with CCTV-2 having a much more complex layout containing a double news ticker similar to that of

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for news and stock market information.

Hong Kong

Most news broadcasts in Hong Kong focus on simplicity and minimalism, and generally do not include superfluous information at inessential times. Some channels, however, opt towards a more complex style, especially channels specifically dealing with finance and economics.

Taiwan

News broadcast layout designs in

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are similar to the designs used in the United States, however, use colour and position to maintain a layout's main entity. Each television station has a different layout pattern, although the general structure does not significantly differ. Commonly used layout components include news tickers that may run horizontally or vertically containing different information (per government regulations, vertical tickers may only display important warnings from the National Communications Commission, such as typhoon and earthquake information, and important civil announcements), a time clock, and a box containing meteorological data from the

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. News channels covering finance and economics display financial data during the opening hours of the

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, where the main screen layout will shrink to one-quarter of the screen, leaving the remainder for live financial information such as market and stock price indices of each listed share in succession.

Japan

Television channels in Japan generally have very little layout structure at all, and merely on occasion display news headlines and summary text, in addition to the station logo and time clock. In most cases, only the reporter's name, event location and a short basic summary is displayed. These simple layout structures were initially used around the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to the processing power of the computers then used for signatures. During election periods, major sporting competitions and natural disasters, news broadcasts switch to an , shrinking the size of the original news display to make room for additional information relating to the election, sporting competition or natural disaster at hand.NHKは何を伝えてきたか－NHKテレビ番組の50年

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

. Quote: "何かが起これば、頼りになるのがテレビだ。1997年の秋、NHKは台風が本土を直撃しようとした時、あえてテレビ画面の隅を使って、逆L字型画面で台風情報を繰り返し放送した。緊急の情報を放送するには、このマルチ画面は非常に有効だった。これは結果として、データ放送の価値とその利用方法を周知させる結果となった。" (If something occurs, the television is reliable. In the Fall of 1997, as a typhoon headed towards the mainland, NHK repeatedly broadcast typhoon information in the corner of the TV screen within a reversed L-shape. This display was very effective. As a result, this demonstrated the value of the utilisation of data broadcasting to the masses.)

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