International Broadcasts
MSNBC is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, both NBC News and MSNBC are shown for a few hours a day on Orbit News in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Orbit News is network of three 24 hour satellite and cable channels offering exclusively American news programming from ABC, NBC, PBS, and MSNBC to U.S. expats and other viewers abroad, primarily geared towards an audience in the Arab countries. The network is available on digital satellite and cable in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, however, cable operators in Europe are currently unable to carry the channels due to unsolved rights issues.
MSNBC is also shown occasionally on sister network CNBC Europe during breaking news. Some NBC News programs are shown in the Philippines on Talktv (formerly aired on 2nd Avenue).
NBC Nightly News, along with the full program lineup of NBC, is carried by affiliate VSB-TV in Bermuda.
The Seven Network in Australia has close ties with NBC and has used a majority of the network's imaging and slogans since the 1970s. Seven News has featured The Mission as its news theme since the mid 1980s. Local newscasts were named Seven Nightly News from the mid 1980s until around 2000. NBC and Seven will often share news recourses between the two countries. NBC News has been know to use Seven News reporters for live crosses on a developing news story in Australia. Seven News will sometimes also incorporate an NBC News Report into its National bulletins. The Today Show, Weekend Today and Meet The Press are all broadcast on the Seven Network between the early hours of 3am-5am, just before their own morning show Sunrise.
In Singapore, Nightly News is broadcast live on MediaCorp Channel 5 and MediaCorp HD5 daily at 06:00–06:30 am. In Hong Kong, NBC Nightly News it is aired on TVB Pearl daily at 06:30–07:00 am. Meanwhile, in Indonesia, Nightly News is broadcast live on RCTI daily at 05:30–06:00 am.
In the United Kingdom, the ITV network, airs segments of NBC News on their ITV News at 5:30 morning newscast.
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“We spend all day broadcasting on the radio and TV telling people back home what’s happening here. And we learn what’s happening here by spending all day monitoring the radio and TV broadcasts from back home.”
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