All-news radio

All-news radio is a radio format devoted primarily or entirely to news reporting, with programming that may include continuous updates, analysis, and news-oriented discussion.

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Radio news bulletin: A short radio program that presents a curated set of current news stories. Regular bulletins give the format recurring points for headlines and updates.
WINS (AM): A New York City radio station that adopted an all-news format in 1965. Its format change became an influential example of continuous all-news radio.
Traffic reporting: The broadcast of information about road conditions, congestion, and travel delays. Frequent local traffic updates make the format useful to commuters.
Talk radio: A radio format centered on spoken discussion, interviews, and audience participation. Talk radio prioritizes extended opinion and conversation rather than continuous news reporting.
News cycle: The recurring process by which news is gathered, verified, reported, and updated. Continuous programming follows events as they develop rather than waiting for a single edition.
WINS format: A tightly scheduled all-news radio format developed at New York station WINS. Its repeated headline-and-report structure helped define the recognizable all-news clock.
Weather radio: Radio broadcasting focused on forecasts, severe-weather alerts, and related public information. It shares urgent-update duties with all-news radio but concentrates on weather.
News talk radio: A radio format combining news coverage with discussion programs, interviews, and commentary. Its talk shows occupy substantial airtime that an all-news schedule gives to reporting.
News ticker: A continuously updated display of brief news headlines, commonly shown on television or digital screens. Radio uses spoken headline updates to serve a similar rapid-update function without a visual ticker.
KYW (AM): A Philadelphia radio station that has broadcast an all-news format since 1965. KYW became an early major-market example alongside WINS.