• Network news programming

The Big Three broadcast television networksproduce morning and evening national newscasts (America This Morning,Good Morning AmericaandABC World Newsare broadcast byABC,CBSbroadcasts theCBS Morning News,CBS This Morningand theCBS Evening News, andNBCproducesEarly Today,TodayandNBC Nightly News) as well as weeklynewsmagazineseries (NBC'sDatelineandRock Center, ABC's20/20andCBS News Sunday Morning,48 Hoursand60 Minuteson CBS). Network morning newscasts usually air at 7 a.m. (English-language network morning shows are tape delayed for each time zone, while the Spanish-language morning shows are aired live in all time zones); network evening newscasts usually are broadcast live at 6:30 p.m. on the East coast and broadcast live in both theEasternandCentral time zones, with a secondary live broadcast at 6:30 p.m.Pacific time.Todaywas the first morning news program to be broadcast on American television and in the world, when it debuted on January 14, 1952; the earliest national evening news program wasThe Walter Compton News, a short-lived 15-minute newscast that aired on theDuMont Television Networkfrom 1947 to 1948.

All four major English networks and the two largest Spanish networks also carry political talk programs on Sunday mornings(NBC'sMeet the Press, ABC'sThis Week, CBS'Face the Nation, Fox's sole news programFox News Sunday, Univision'sAl Puntoand Telemundo'sEnfoque); of these programs,Meet the Pressholds the distinction of being thelongest-running American television programas it has aired since November 6, 1947. CBS and ABC are currently the only networks that produce overnight news programs on weeknights in the form ofUp to the MinuteandWorld News Now, respectively; NBC previously produced overnight newscasts at different times, both of which have since been cancelled:NBC News Overnightfrom 1982 to 1983, andNBC Nightsidefrom 1992 to 1999 (NBC currently does not offer a late night newscast, although the network currently airs the fourth hour ofToday, and sister networkCNBC'sMad Moneyon weeknights).

Spanish-language news programs are provided by Univision(which produces early and late evening editions of its flagship evening news programNoticiero Univisionseven nights a week, which is the only nightly newscast on the major Spanish networks but also competes with national evening news programs on the network's English-language competitors; along with weekday afternoon newsmagazinePrimer Impactoand weekday morning programDespierta America),Telemundo(whose flagship evening newscast isNoticiero Telemundo, along with weekday morning programUn Nuevo Díaand weekday afternoon newsmagazineAl Rojo Vivo),MundoFox(which produces the weekday-only flagship newscastNoticias MundoFox, along with a weekday afternoon newsmagazineMundoFOX ¡Y Ya!),Estrella TV(which produces the weekday-only flagship news programNoticiero Estrella TVand the primetime newscastCierre de Edición) andAzteca América(which produces the weeknight-onlyNoticiero Nacional Azteca América: Edición VespertinaandNoticiero Nacional Azteca América: Edición Nocturna).

Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV do not produce national morning and evening news programs (although Fox made a brief attempt at a morning program in the late 1990s with Fox After Breakfast; many CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations air the syndicated news programThe Daily Buzz, while someTribune Broadcasting-owned CW and MyNetworkTV stations air a similar program calledEyeOpener).