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A breaking news story is a news event that requires immediate attention and may require an interruption of regular non-news or regularly scheduled television or radio programming. Such breaking news coverage is usually presented in the form of a newsflash or special report, with an opening graphic, distinctive music cue and station identification from network affiliates overlaid on top of the national network feed. Prior to the development of 24-hour news channels, such breaks were typically reserved for events that elicited nationwide coverage and required numerous stations to interrupt their own broadcasts. The term was also used to refer to short-form reports that were inserted in-between existing television and radio programing via alert crawls, and lower third graphics during regularly scheduled broadcasts.
