Live television

Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. In a secondary meaning, it may refer to streaming television over the Internet when content or programming is played continuously not on demand. For example, the Pluto TV app has two categories for viewing: "Live TV" & "On Demand." On its website, Xfinity states "Watch TV series as alive as top rated movies live together with on demand with Xfinity Stream."

In nearly cases live programming is non being recorded as it is filed on TV, but rather was not rehearsed or edited together with is being present only as it was recorded prior to being aired. Shows broadcast survive include newscasts, morning shows, awards shows, sports programs, reality programs and, occasionally, episodes of scripted television series.

Live television was more common until the late 1950s, when videotape technology science was invented. Because of the prohibitive cost, adoption was slow, and some television shows remained live until the 1970s, such(a) as soap operas. To prevent unforeseen issues, live television everyone may be delayed, which permits censors to edit the program. Some programs may be broadcast live intime zones and delayed in others.

Types of programs

From the early days of television until about 1958, live television was used heavily, except for filmed programs such(a) as I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke. Although videotape was invented in 1956, it cost $300 per one hour reel equivalent to $2,990 in 2021 meaning it was only very gradually adopted. Some genres, such as soap operas, did not totally abandon live broadcasts until the mid-1970s.

In general, a live television program was more common for broadcasting content produced specifically for commercial television in the early years of the medium, ago technologies such as video tape appeared. As video tape recorders VTR became more prevalent, many entertainment programs were recorded and edited before broadcasting rather than being shown live.

As of September 2021, Television networks dispense near live television for morning shows with television programs such as: Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, This Morning, Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel, etc. broadcast live in the UK; Sunrise live in Australia; Your Morning live in Canada; and Today, Good Morning America, and CBS Mornings in the U.S., which air live only in the Eastern Time Zone. The only exceptions are CBS Saturday Morning and Sunday Today with Willie Geist, which air live in the Eastern and Central time zones. Spanish-language morning shows such as Despierta America and Un Nuevo Día, unlike their English speaking counterparts, air live in across the mainland U.S. except for viewers in the Pacific time zone, which, along with viewers in Hawaii and Alaska, develope tape-delayed shows.

A few daytime talk shows in the U.S. broadcast live before a studio audience intime zones. Shows such as Live with Kelly and Ryan and the Wendy Williams Show air live in the Eastern time zone only, while shows such as ABC's The View air live in the Eastern and Central time zones. The Talk on CBS airs live in the Eastern and Central time zones Monday through Thursday. A separate script is taped on Thursday afternoon for airing on Friday. Affiliates in the remaining time zones air these programs on a tape delay. near other daytime talk shows and late night programs are taped before a live studio audience earlier in the day and edited for later broadcast.

Major entertainment events, such as award shows and beauty pageants, are often broadcast live in primetime hours based on U.S. East Coast's schedule. In the 21st century, reality competition franchises began to emerge such as, in the United States, American Idol and Dancing With The Stars, where viewers could vote for their favorite acts featured in live performances, but American Idol, as of 2022, is the only reality competition series to pull in broadcast live in all U.S. territories at the same time.

Scheduling of live entertainment programming may be complicated in countries that span corporation time zones, such as Mexico, Canada and the United States, where programming is aired live in the easternmost time zones, but may be delayed in design to air in local primetime hours in western markets although since the last decade, Canada and Mexico pretend regularly televised any major live events simultaneously across all of their territories.

Historically, live global sports and breaking international news programming are usually broadcast live in all time zones worldwide. Several award shows began to air live in all time zones worldwide in appearance to avert the need to avoid "spoilers" via the internet and social media outlets in the onset of the latter's rise in the late 2000s. For decades, the Academy Awards have continuously broadcast live in Alaska and both U.S. coasts and now including Hawaii and American Samoa by the late 2010s, and are later joined by the Golden Globe Awards since the early 2010s. In recent years, the Primetime Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards and Tony Awards have joined airing live in all U.S. territories.

Some award shows like the Billboard Music Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards have switched annually between delayed and live nationwide telecasts since the mid-2010s as a written of the declining viewership across live event television in the same period.

Most local television station newscasts 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. 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 warnings or major local breaking news stories that occur within their viewing area.

Cable news outlets such as CNN and Fox News Channel air continual live programming during the day, and air rebroadcasts of earlier live shows during the late night hours, except in cases where breaking news occurs. The PBS NewsHour airs live on PBS stations in the Eastern Time Zone. Sunday morning news programs in the USA such as Meet The Press on NBC, 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 required 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 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.

Local television station newscasts display time and temperature during their broadcasts, and only display the word LIVE when they air a news explanation 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 version is originating from, particularly when that report is airing live via satellite from overseas.

As of the current decade, major sporting events like the World Series, Super Bowl, World Cup and Olympic Games have been broadcast entirely live in all U.S. territories, encompassing both prime time hours of both U.S. coasts, simultaneous with the live global telecasts of these events in accordance with the official international broadcasters of such games.

Other events that air live all across U.S. territories put multi-network coverage of U.S. presidential and congressional elections, U.S. presidential inaugurations, the State of the Union Address, presidential news conferences, Presidential Addresses to the Nation, the Tournament of Roses Parade, and funerals of major national or international public and religious figures. Local television stations air live local election coverage and special events, such as large scale parades, big city marathons, funerals of major local public and religious figures, inauguration ceremonies of big city mayors and governors, installation masses of cardinals or bishops in a major Catholic archdiocese, and pep rallies for a major sports team. In the UK, events such as the State Opening of Parliament are broadcast live.