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Atelevision news screen layout ortelevision news screen interface refers to the layout image displayed during a televisionnews program broadcast. The layouts used differ between television stations and countries, and information displayed may include things such as main news topics and headlines within thelower third,channel logos, anews ticker, a time clock, and in some cases weather and information in the economic and financial fields.
Different layouts may be used withinnews broadcasting to achieve varying effects, and designs are often formulated bybroadcast designers with the intention of being informative and visually appealing. The main purpose of television news screen layouts is 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.[1]
InMalaysia,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 of8TV 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.
Withinmainland China, 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 ofChina Central Television,CCTV-13, has adopted a design more similar to that of Taiwanese television channels since a major redesign in 2009.[2] Not long after the redesign of CCTV-13, regional channels such asDragon Television andHunan Television adapted a Taiwanese-influenced interface design based similarly on that of CCTV-13. The CCTV international (CCTV-4) 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 ofCNBC for news and stock market information.
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.
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News broadcast layout designs inTaiwan 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 theNational Communications Commission, such as typhoon and earthquake information, and important civil announcements), a time clock, and a box containing meteorological data from theCentral Weather Bureau.
News channels covering finance and economics display financial data during the opening hours of theTaiwan Stock Exchange, 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.
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 anL-shaped image layout [ja], 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.[3][4]