Television Style

 Television news style is much like radio news style, for a viewer can no more return to a group of facts than a listener can. The viewer, like the listener, does not always focus on what the newscaster says. Television news adds further complexities when pictures join the words; that is, anchors or reporters deliver what is called a "voice over."  live news hindi

Ideally the words that accompany a videotape story of an event are written, even under time pressure, only after the writer has viewed the unedited videotape and made editing decisions such that the pictures follow a logic of their own.   aaj ka mukhya samachar

In practice the ideal method of editing video first and writing text afterward is rarely followed in television newsrooms, but the better news writers at least keep the pictures in mind as they write, and the tape is edited to fit the words. Besides all the other constraints which limit the writing of a news story — lead, chronology, clarity, etc. — the words should relate in some way to the pictures. If the words and the pictures do not support each other, they surely fight each other for the viewer’s attention, a dissonance that detracts from understanding. An examination of a random selection of television newscasts will demonstrate that nearly all of the fresh information is found in the words, but it is the pictures that carry the impact for the viewers. It is the pictures that will be remembered. There are other types of videotape stories, such as news about the economy, which consist primarily of file tape chosen for the sole purpose of illustrating the words. Writing Style Differences in Newspaper, Radio, and Television News6/23/2003 6 Here, picture logic barely exists, yet care must be taken that the words are not overwhelmed by the helping pictures. Economic news presents an additional difficulty alluded to in considering radio, above. The difficulty lies in communicating numbers. Television has one advantage over radio here, because numbers can be presented visually while the newscaster reads them; the presentation can be enhanced by graphs, pie charts or other visual aids lacking in radio.