In our series The Cost of Denial NBC News’ Vicky Nguyen reports on the Ohio hospital employee whose heart surgery was canceled two days before it was supposed to take place after insurance said it was not medically necessary.
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When a breaking news event occurs that is considered so important that it requires a temporary interruption of regular non-news programming, television and radio networks usually use a special graphic to signal the change. In addition, a network feed is often available for affiliates to switch over to. This is known as a “Newsflash” or “Special Report.”
Before 24-hour news networks existed, news breaks were only used for events of national importance such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which required numerous stations to interrupt their own local programming.
