50 years of network news: Breaking News - Part I
(WorldNews New Zealand)

In the age of global network television, breaking news and its distinct format has become the norm in most people´s lives. Regular programming is interrupted, a striking headline summarises a major incident and a presenter ad-libs the earliest confirmed reports. But it wasn´t always this way. As former 1 NEWS presenter Peter Williams recalls, television has historically lagged behind other news formats. `I don´t think television in this country, or anywhere really,...