Editing Live television (section)

=== News shows ===
Most local television station [[News broadcasting|newscast]]s are broadcast live in the U.S. as they are an essential medium for providing up-to-the-minute weather forecasts and breaking news stories. Broadcast television networks in the United States typically air their evening newscasts live in the Eastern and Central time zones. A separate "Western Edition" is broadcast to viewers in the [[Pacific Time Zone]] to account for latest news updates, and may sometimes be a second live broadcast with the same running time as the original East Coast airing. When a major breaking news event occurs, whether nationally or globally, broadcast television networks will break into regularly scheduled programming and will televise a live "[[special report]]" in all time zones. Local television stations break into regularly scheduled programming in the event of [[Severe weather|severe weather warnings]] or major local breaking news stories that occur within their viewing area.

Cable news outlets (such as [[CNN]] and [[Fox News Channel]]) air continuous live programming during the day, and air rebroadcasts of earlier live shows during the late night hours, except in cases where [[breaking news]] occurs.<ref name="rebroadcasts">Shows such as [[Hannity]] on the Fox News Channel are pre-recorded the afternoon of its broadcast. However, this show occasionally airs live if breaking news or special events are being covered.</ref>  The ''[[PBS NewsHour]]'' airs live on PBS stations in the Eastern Time Zone.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/history/ "History - PBS NewsHour"], www.pbs.org. Retrieved 30 March 2016.</ref> Sunday morning news programs in the USA such as ''[[Meet The Press]]'' on NBC, ''[[This Week (ABC TV series)|This Week]]'' on ABC, and ''[[Fox News Sunday]]'' air live in the Eastern Time Zone (including a limited number of small markets in the Central Time Zone), while ''[[CBS Sunday Morning]]'' and ''[[Face The Nation]]'' on CBS air live in the Eastern and Central time zones.

Cable outlets (such as CNN and Fox News Channel) incorporate the word ''LIVE'' in their network logo (also known as a [[digital on-screen graphic]]) when those networks broadcast live content.  Some (but not all) sports cable networks will opt to insert the word ''LIVE'' somewhere on the corner of the screen. With the exception of [[breaking news|special breaking news reports]] and overseas sporting events, broadcast television networks rarely display such a graphic during its live programming. (although NBC did display the word LIVE next to their logo during its Olympic coverage when live content was being broadcast, a practice that was continued by its sister station, [[NBCSN]], until its closure in 2021.)<ref name="Broadcast networks">In 2015, NBC began inserting the word ''LIVE'' above its on-air graphic during live telecasts of "Undateable" and "The Wiz", and in 2016, the Golden Globe Awards. However, they do not display the ''LIVE'' graphic during programs such as ''Saturday Night Live'' and the ''NBC Nightly News''. Broadcast networks such as CBS, ABC, PBS, and FOX typically do not display a LIVE graphic during any of their live telecasts.</ref>

Local television station newscasts display time and temperature during their broadcasts, and only display the word LIVE when they air a news report or a [[live shot]] on location. Some networks have begun to insert (in addition to the word LIVE) the local time of where that news report is originating from, particularly when that report is airing live via satellite from overseas.