KBC Newsworld

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Newsworld is a free-to-air, 24-hour television English-language news channel run by the Kelssek Broadcasting Corporation. An international news source, it is widely available in over 50 countries worldwide through terrestrial, cable and satellite broadcasting. In countries where Newsworld is not available through conventional sources, KBC satellite receivers distributed through Kelssekian embassies enable the viewing of KBC programming, including Newsworld.

The KBC is a publicly funded broadcaster and in line with its public-interest goals, it seeks to provide objective news coverage and avoid sensationalism. However, as it originates in a quasi-socalist country, Newsworld is often perceived as having an inherent leftist slant. Its stated intention is to provide an unbiased international perspective independent of inflence by corporate or government interests, and while the KBC is funded by the Kelssekian taxpayer, the government is severely constrained by law from cutting funds, censoring or otherwise influencing the KBC. Several Kelssekian governments have in fact emphasised that the KBC's value is dependent on it being free of even the perception of government influence.

The KBC also produces a similar French-language international news network known as RDI, or le Réseau de l'information.

Programming

Newsworld focuses on live news and documentary programs. Most of the programs are produced at KBC Broadcasting Centre in Kirkenes. The satirical comedy program The Obsolete is also shown on weekends.

Program titles include:

  • Live news
    • The World Now
    • This Day
    • The National (simulcasted within Kelssek on the KBC's local channels)
    • Worldview with Jeff Rainer
    • Insight
    • The Round Table (panel of journalists and academics discuss current events in a panel format)
  • Documentary
    • Telescope
    • the fifth estate
  • General interest/Comedy
    • The Hour with Morbo (designed to appeal to young viewers with coverage of contemporary and pop culture)
    • Life Live (general lifestyle program)
    • Kelssek Propaganda Live (stand-up comedy program)
    • Don't Walk (modern arts and culture)