A News programme without Presenters

I have a very vague memory of Channel 5 broadcasting a bulletin about 10 years ago with a virtual news presenter (Core News?) I may be completely wrong though.

There was BBC 2's News Review back in the 1970s. A weekly compilation of news reports for
the deaf/hard of hearing. Subtitles and no presenter.

A shame, because many of the stories that EuroNews transmit, are simply not covered by BBC, Sky, CNN, etc.

It's good to dip into for 10-20 mins, (much like any other news channel IMHO)

maybe you're thinking of 100% "the quiz without a presenter"

MarkyMark, if I'm not mistaken, News Review did have a presenter. He/she would introduce the story from the studio, but there was no reporter of voicing from the presenter when the film packages were played.

The films were accompanied by subtitles only.

A Tribune station in the U.S. also has an "anchor-less" nightly newscast, though it's done with a voiceover and an irreverent, almost tabloid-like tone.

I agree with what most has been said about Euronews— something about not having an anchor makes it less appealing to watch. However, I've also thought that having a pre-made 30 minute news program of news packages that didn't make it into live newscasts to air when live news isn't possible or costs too much (*cough* CNN International *cough*) would be a better way to fill time than some of the other alternatives.

Not sure about the 70s but it continued into the 80s and was presented by Moira Stewart quite often - so by then did have an in-vision presenter? The issue with most conventional bulletin reports is that they need a presenter read intro to properly make sense.

The Newsreels didn't have a presenter either.

Umm, that might be right I think, I can still hear the theme tune though, it's been stuck in my head all morning !

Yep, that's the way New York 1 still do the majority of the output.

They do have a couple of time specific news broadcasts that are live (news at 11pm is a live programme with a running order different to the rolling 10pm hour broadcast) The breakfast show appears to have a lowest amount of repeated material compared to the rest of the day.

To balance out the hour, they run plenty of ads and trails, have the unvoiced New York Diary, and Today In New York history, so they hit the New York Minute dead on the top of the hour - which I'm pretty sure is delivered live every hour.

Back in the days (ok - last year) when you could listen to the live audio stream (before you needed a Time Warner account to access the stream on the ny1.com website) I used to listen to a couple of hours in a block on a Sunday afternoon, and one day I put a watch over repeated news stories. I reckon that in the 2nd hour, at least 30 mins was recycled from the previous hour.

Overnight pretty much the only thing that is new output, is the time and temperature graphic at the bottom left hand of the screen.

Watching the channel a couple of year ago when I was over there, the only way of telling what is first run material is the looking at the on screen captions which will have 'LIVE' for the original airing of the two-way with the studio, thereafter it'll be repeated as before, but the live caption will be replaced with 'ON SCENE'.

Half the time the newsreader ruins the reports punchline or big reveal. It is almost like some reports are written and presented to be shown as stand-alone pieces even though they never are. This also happens on The One Show sometimes.

Ananova existed for quite some time as a news website with live-updating minute-or-so long bulletins presented by the eponymous virtual newscaster, with still images inter cut into the footage of her reading. It seemed quite successful for a while. During its heyday, Channel 5 News tried to compete by making a virtual Andrea Catherwood - called Vandrea - to fulfil the same role on their website, with the backing of BT.

For a while there, pundits were suggesting that this was the future of online (and TV) news in the new millennium.

Ananova was later bought (for some millions) by Orange and disappeared almost entirely very quickly - although there's still a picture and links to replacement content in the right hand column of this page.

Here's a selection of the TV news coverage about Ananova's launch: