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Current News is a term used by television and radio broadcasters to refer to breaking news events that demand immediate coverage. Often, this will cause the station to interrupt other non-news programming (and sometimes regularly scheduled newscasts) and replace it with a newsflash or special report graphic accompanied by a distinctive music cue. If the breaking event is widespread, network affiliates may be required to cut-in to join the coverage. Until the advent of 24-hour news channels, such breaks were typically reserved for extremely urgent situations such as the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963. A similar graphic, called a news ticker or an alert crawl, is used during regular programming to display specific breaking stories.
